Google Music Beta launched yesterday, beating iTunes into the cloud by at least a couple months, but with one big drawback: it wasn’t supposed to work on iOS devices, but just one day later and Google Music is already up and running on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
Here’s how to use Google Music on your iDevice.
1) Sign up for a Google Music beta invite if you don’t already have one.
2) Once you’ve been admitted into the beta, point Mobile Safari to Google Music. Login.
3) From here, you can navigate as usual, with a simple tap playing the music within Mobile Safari. Scrolling is a bit wonky, and you have to be patient.
Okay, it’s no dedicated app, but what’s cool about this approach is that because Mobile Safari has background audio privileges under iOS 4.x, using the Google Music browser player on your iOS device actually allows you to multitask and use iOS’s music controls to skip, play and pause tracks, just as if it were an app you downloaded from the App Store.
[via CNET]
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15 responses to “How To Use Google Music Beta Under iOS [How-To]”
If anyone wants to get their hands on a free Google Music Beta invite, I found a site that was handing out from free. I thought it was too good to be true, until I found an invite sitting in my inbox 15 minutes later. :D
If you want to try getting your own invite, here’s the link to the giveaway:
http://freemusicbetainvites.co…
Sucks! only americans.. Why god WHY!!!
Because America is the greatest country in the world. Just ask Osama…
Google also has a history of finding a way to make services at least moderately usable on iOS once they mature (ala Google Voice). Apple has hopefully learned its lesson about directly opposing competing services on their platform, so even if they DO release an iCloud app soon, chances are we will eventually see a Music by Google app on iOS.
If anyone’s looking for a Google Music Beta invite, I found a blog giving them out for free. I figured that the waiting list would be too long, so I tried the blog out, and got my invite about an hour later. Nice.
I don’t know if they have any remaining invites, but if you want to try your luck here’s the site:
http://freemusicbetainvites.co…
Because Google is an American company? I also agree with everything USA said except asking our current President.
He said Osama (bin) not Obama!
There are far more people living OUTSIDE America you know?
this totally doesnt work….iPhone running 4.2.8 (Verizon) and iPad on 4.3.3