I think it is better than both. Amazon Prime is the poor option by far but Spotify vs Google is a tougher call. But for me with a large catalogue of MP3's burned from my CD library, being able to upload these to the cloud and have access to them is great. I also prefer the album based approach in Google rather than the largely playlist focus of Spotify. yes, both can do the same as each other but Google was geared differently from the start.

Sound quality is on a par IMO but Spotify's desktop app is woefully slow and hugely frustrating. The desktop experience is enough to make me want so move away. And finally, the family options of google's offering is superior and cheaper.

Thanks for sharing your dull life.

I just sing what I want, its free.

Unless you sweet talk google I'm not too sure to be honest

Doh, didn't see that mentioned. I did send the codes to a different email address. Don't suppose you know how I can transfer that over?
Thanks for your help

That would be why, they were meant to be gifts, so you had to send it to another account. I'd cancel your current one and transfer it to a dedicated GPM account

Says 14/08/2016 but I know when I first applied the codes it said October 2017.

Yea I had and so far got nowhere so figured I'd try and get some feedback here.
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I have received a message from our escalation team.

According to screenshot you have provided to me, you have had purchased the music subscription on the same account where the redemption code was redeemed. That is the reason why it never worked.

Nope, if you go on your google play settings, what does it say about your account, specifically "next bill on X".

Might be worth talking to Google about it?

Dragging up an old thread I know. I did this but have since realised I've been charged the monthly subscription fee still.
Anyone else had issues?

I just went to
https://play.google.com/music/listen
and the offer appeared on the top banner.

Can't get back to 2month Free Google Play Music offer screen anymore. I was hoping to try to use it again. Now think I imagined it all.

Good spot, I just got the 3 month free trial. I'm not a new user and have used the trail before.

Took advantage of 3x1month deals yesterday. Thanks OP.
Also, noticed 2month Free Google Play Music last night. Tried it but new users only.

Yes looks like the deal has expired.
Thank you again OP really appreciate it you've saved me a lot there.
I'm amazed this deal didn't go much higher heat wise. I think it may have confused somewhat especially the 3 & 6 month pricing, and that 'error' by google maybe put some folk off.
Really hope they repeat this again on or around December 2019!!

Now showing as £9.99 for the 1 month option, expired unless the link has changed.

Thanks for the post OP stacked up 6 month and finally got rid of my playstore credit :smiley:

It's not avaliable anymore =( Might ring/email them though to see if they'll still keep allow the price that was allowed yesterday


Scratch that - The £5 a month offer is still avaliable so I just stocked up on those

I think this offer ends at 23.59.59 today, I would stock up.
UPDATE:
I was wrong it must now be 23.59.59 Thursday

Thanks for this offer OP and all,I only used spotify at 160kbps and this 320kbps is a real treat for me.

How often do these offers come up,I don't know wether to go for a year or more now?

I would start a fresh but keep the spotify icon on your desktop to click & refer to.
cheers

Does anyone have allcast devices? Panasonic I think are the biggest ones over here.

just wondering if you've found a way to get play music working with them

Thanks,that's quite techy though,any other ways to do it?
Portify doesn't work I think.

So vouchers can't be redeemed in another territory, you can however use play music without a vpn once registered. Best thing to do is apply them to the us account and switch your account on the app on your phone to that one. I'm seriously considering doing this to an Aussie account so I can use up my Telstra credit, 5 years free beats the £7.99 early member discount by miles

see #132

cheers

How do you transfer a playlist from Spotify to Google Play then?

​Sorry I did mean how long the vouchers would last after purchase. I think I confused the matter there.

Years ago I bought US iTunes vouchers from a guy in Hong Kong on ebay. In those days the choice was far better on iTunes US and cheaper.
I ended up losing all my US iTunes purchases because I had two iTunes accounts I couldn't merge the two, a total nightmare. Luckily it wasn't a fortune but still about $150-$200 ish ouch.
When I read earlier about buying in dollars & VPN malarkey I thought NO NO, I've been there done that, never again.
Cheers

Sorry I thought you were asking whether the code has an expiry date.
The expiry of the offer I mention in #134, I always find a date ambiguous (15/02/15) is that 23.59.59 14/02/16? I think probably, as I saw an ad and it mentions 'give your loved one a present of music' for valentines day.
cheers

​It looks as though the offer is still active. Did you mean you can't see any reason why the vouchers wouldn't last? The guy I spoke to from Google seemed to say they would last infinitely.

If you manage to buy the $4.99 US version you'll find you can't apply it to a UK google account.

It's a massive faff. I had to VPN, set up new account, buy google US gift card and gift the subs. And then eventually told "This gift cannot be redeemed in your country. The person who sent you this gift should ask for a refund."

I'm not sure I fancy asking for a refund, I'd have a lot of 'splaining to do...

Thanks will check it out :wink:

where is the 'front of offer page' it doesn't mention 15th when I click OP's link, also is it 23.59.59 today it ends?

^

I would follow #14 'I also prefer the album based approach in Google ' and start a fresh, but still keep the spotify icon to click and add to GPM 'thumbs up' (I do access my old Spotify on occasions to see what I used to listen to from years ago so you will never lose your Spotify info).
So follow J0n35y advice, however.............

if you can't resists & want a lot of flaffing around-
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web/Instructions-to-import-music-from-Spotify-into-Google-Music-and/td-p/1129851

BTW - this would be a good time to ask, anyone know of a way to export Spotify Playlists to Google Play Music?

Just bought 12x1 month vouchers and gifted them to my own gmail address. Redeemed them all into Google Play, voila. 1 year half price. Scorching!

15th Feb, says in big letters on the front of the offer page :wink:

Does anyone know when this offer expires please?

​Could not have worded it better, exactly myself sentiment.

Please see #124 it wouldn't be a waste stack up to 5 years worth of codes and use when deeper ends in August.

any device with a browser and or app store.

Hi
I was going ballistic registering 47 codes using up store credit (before google pulled the offer) so ended up in a world of my own.
Yes you get an e-mail and then click to redeem.
I can't see any reason why this voucher will last ad infinitum, checking all my e-mails the terms are here- https://play.google.com/intl/en_uk/about/gift-terms.html as mentioned very early on in this thread there is a generous 5 year or 60 maximum number of codes.
However that doesn't answer your query, I can't see any mention of expiry so they will last ad infinitum or as long as google last.

​Yep spot on.

Sounds a bit better than Spotify Unlimited at first listen.

Can someone please tell me how I can check or force the best quality playback/bitrate in the desktop app please?

​I managed to phone Google support earlier and he said there are no redemption dates on the vouchers. All he pointed out was that there were international limits of who you could buy them for.

Does this offer finish on the 17th Feb?

Current Google Play Music customer prices show as £5, £25 and £50 tried the US VPN method and I get


We're sorry.
Your order was declined because it was considered high-risk. Please try again in 30 minutes. [BM-CPE-13]

Thats using a new Gmail account!??

Actually, the service should only activate once you enter the code. But when does the code expire?

I currently have 5 months left on Deezer so would be a waste to just jump to another service.

​Well I'm on the three month deal and then I have a month voucher to use. The Google play music vouchers have a code on the email to redeem them, so surely they can't start straight away, only when you enter the code. That's what I was checking, how long do you have to redeem them?

What's the best quality they stream in?

So this is only for mobile devices and not for desktops?

see#112

They start straight away but if you like your music then you can go wrong at £60 for 12 months although you would have a two month overlap cant you cancel Spotify straight away or is it the free 3 month thingy?
If Spotify is free then you wont lose out anyway.

I want to know this too
on the website it says "The gift expires if the content is no longer available on Google Play or if the Google Play service or the Google Play Gifts program is discontinued."

You speak the truth!
Despite the chaps at google saying I couldn't use the credit for google play.
I removed my other payment methods and it allowed me to use the credit!

How long do the vouchers stay valid for? I have a few months of Spotify left, so don't want Google play to start just yet.

Woohoo! 12 months half price. I already subscribe so this is a massive bonus :smile:

Hi
I think the 3 & 6 month prices were less early yesterday and then went up, Google would do better to remove the 3 and 6 month silly price and as you say change to £4.99/30/60 approx.
I'm fortunate in that I was an early adopter of Spotify & have tried Napster (the legal one!) and apple music. I find GPM the best.
I stacked a few hundred pounds of credit before Christmas with the Tesco 15% offer plus club card points offer, so I was very lucky. I bought 47 credits last night (which was a bit tedious with all the clicks, but I'm not complaining!!) at £4.99 but I'm all set now till Christmas Day 2019 and at around £4.00 a month prepaid for a class leading service, I'm tickled pink!

Can not believe this hasn't gone through the roof temp wise, this and EE Summer / Christmas sim best deals I've seen on this site since Wilkinson 00.10p artificial 5 or 6 foot Christmas Trees about 6 years ago.

Hi, obviously avoid the 3 and 6 months.

I had this problem early last year. I wanted to pay my GPM with store credit and couldn't.
I now can but I had to change the method of payment from 'debit card' to 'play credit' I seem to remember this was done either via the google play account / subscriptions then change GPM payment method to 'store credit' or is it wallet.google.com?
I can be more specific if you struggle with my guide above.

cheers

Those using the USA site, can you stack these codes on to a British Google account? It's confusing as it says you can't but you are all buying USA. I have over $300 of Australian pay as you go credit so would love to stock up using that(you'd all love this deal that got me this) but don't want to lose my early sign up £7.99 subscription to move it to an Aussie account.

It's confusing once you've signed in with Google, you don't require a VPN at all. My UK account defaults to all UK based stuff on the play store despite being in Australia, to see Aussie stuff I had to make a new account.

Also the price here has been slash too, 1 month is $5.99 which is only £3 at the moment. There's a thread running on their equivalent of hukd

https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/234461

GPM or Deezer? I have a Deezer account at the moment which is really good.

Thanks op - Google had given me £30 credit for a 3 month Google Play pass that didn't activate correctly - glad I waited to use it!

No songs from laughing Leonard on Google Play so will stick with Spotify

I just sing what I want, its free.

someone gift me 4 months worth plssssss ill pay u lol

log out of account., use vpn, access google play store, login to purchase ... changes back to GBP.

Any tips on how to get around this?

>>>>>
Looks like your not the only one who has twigged that extra 10% off!!

Took me a bit to catch on, but when I did.......
This is the most totally insane offer if you are a long term user of GPM, & insane anyway to be fair.
I stocked up just before Christmas with about £250 of credit with the 15% offer at Tesco thinking I was all set for a few years.
Little did I know that this offer would come along, now subscription runs out Christmas Day 2019!!!!! 47 credits.
It must work out at around £4 a month with my 15% Tesco credit & club card points bonus.
I do feel a tad greedy but THANK YOU so much OP you've saved me HUNDREDS. £235.00 to be precise,
This should be 10,000 degree! A brilliant service GPM especially with SONOS & iphone.
Thanks again, I hope the offer lasts all weekend for others to enjoy.

Are people really still paying for music?

Anything you want is available on Youtube. And that is even before you consider more nefarious means... :wink:

You can gift to yourself multiple times on one account and then just redeem each code as they are emailed to you. I bought Google Play credit through CDKeys for an extra 10% discount on the purchase price, so it was effectively £4.50 each month - every little helps! :smiley:

Does this mean they pay less tax? Seriously though do you have to activate these vouchers straight away or can you keep them for a few months? Just I've still got a month or so of Spotify left.

Buy a £4.99 voucher six times. :smirk:

Another early adopter on the £7.99 price plan - stocked up though at £4.99!

GPM is the best, tried apple & spotify (for years)
£8.50 if you wait and stack Tesco 15% off.
upload all your music listen on SONOS and iPhone, its like owning your own record store.
FAB
not much Neil Young though, due to his Pono device.

HEAT!

Was just gifting one of these to someone and they said "Why are you paying in £"
which is a bit odd as it was a gift.. then realized that they were currently states
based and could see the same deal in $, which as a 2x 6mth gift is £36-39 so now
looking at how it can be got at that price for a year or more ;-)

6 months gift option has gone up in price since earlier today

Only getting the one month subscription discounted too, but it's well worth the little bit of extra work to just gift it to yourself over and over. I'm now paid up until next year.

Normally prefer Spotify, but recently got a new car that has Android Auto in it and Google Play Music works with it amazingly well, so I was looking at switching anyway. So this offer has come along at the perfect time.

If i sign out of my Google account the 6 months subscription show in dollars @ $49.99 as soon i try sign in £49.99 !
WTF

Am I missing something here?

Why buy the 6 month gift at £49.99 when you can buy 6 lots of 1 month at 4.99 each making it £30?

It's a good discount and worth a try to see if you like it.
I have it (6 months free with my Galaxy S6) but I prefer the interface of Deezer or Spotify.

Has the price changed...? When I looked in work earlier, I could have sworn the 6 month was cheaper than £49.99? Why would I just not buy 12x 1 month at £4.99, is there a limit on buying them?

I'm curious as to what these 50 albums are? I'm not trolling, I genuinely would like to know. Myself, I like to keep exploring. I've always got my favourites but I like to hear something new.

I think it's Deezer who has the most music with 40 million tracks, Spotify has around 30 million.

I'm with deezer for a fiver a month but can cancel at any time.

Google or deezer?

I'd been kicking myself for cancelling my initial £7.99 membership. Half price is better, thanks!

Just got 24months worth (justified it by thinking of it as buy one year, get another for free) so they had better not drop their integration with Sonos!!

Yes, I agree, but Spotify's desktop app is very very very good. I love that I can control it from my phone.

Just trialling 99p Spotify 3 month offer, when that expires might go for the Deezer free trial. Also joined Amazon Prime recently, excellent Bowie albums on that. Wow so many offers trying to claim my attention. If I ever do go long term it won't be at anywhere near the £10/month the music streamers think they ought to be worth in the UK.

I thought id give it a try personally I prefer spotify. google play has hardly any playlists the music seems all the same. I like on spotify how i can listen to sub genres of that genre, eg electronic/edm - trap,deep house, house and so on. im gonna try apple music out once my 3 months is up with google

​Thanks for showing us how really poor trolling is done.

​I have done similar. switched between deezer, spotify, Amazon etc had almost a year now and only cost 2 x 99p!

Have to say though out of them all Google Play music is by far the best in my opinion.

I saw this the other day, thank you for reminding me to purchase!

I travel on the train every morning, there is a Starbucks at the station and they ask me what the service was like every day! Give them five stars and get 25p ... Never used the Starbucks at the station, but Google don't need to know that!!

Thanks for this headup.

I have now added the 6 months option saving myself £15 due to Chromecast credits etc.

Do many people really use unlimited music ? Personally I only need about 50 albums for life, which I already own (and have on Google Music Etc). I am surprised music streaming has been a success really.

Also often these days a new album will gave a day when it's only 99p etc.

Iam not expert but leaving price aside..how google music compare to spotify and Amazon prime music service?

Excellent deal, bought x2 6 months and that now takes me to April 2017 included my 3 months free trial. £10 a month was a bit steep for spotify so happy to pay this, works out £4 per month with the 3 months trial. I'm very happy.

Also tried recreating a spotify playlist and had no problem getting the songs i wanted.

Anyone know what happens if you try to apply this to an Family account?

I'm willing to try it out and post the results here by buying a gift subscription, sending it to myself and applying to my family account. If it doesn't work, it says I can send the gift to somebody else, anybody here want to take it off me for face value if that happens?

Could I start a month trial and use these later or is it start now as soon as I gift myself?

Proper hot. Bought a years worth.

great deal. I was on the 3 month trail from Christmas. I gifted it to my email address I already used with Google, just clicked the redeem button on the email and now I'm sorted until late September! great find

What's another free email address between friends... :smiley:

No Problem, I get between £0.5 and £2.50 most weeks and average around £6 a month. Works best with location on as it asks about say your last visit to Tesco and star rating then gives 9p to 29p a time.

Used up my balance from Google Rewards app and added just over £50 from paypal and have until 22/09/2017 tillnext bill.

Happy chappy here and that's 18 months of Google rewards to earn so will be a few more month sorted.

I'm a Google Music Family subscriber.... great service and my family (especially kids) would be lost without it. The immediacy of music is great although I still like having an actual CD in my hand.... (although it generally get's ripped immediately to MP3 and stored away).

Compared to other services the family package is excellent, compared to other services including family package in the US they get more for less but that's typical of most things I guess.

maybe I misunderstood. I meant the deezer 3 months was not just for new customers. this is a pretty good deal, however if you combine the NUS extra card and get Spotify premium for equivalent of £6 per month if u prefer over Google. personally I'll wait for another 99p offer. As I'm only streaming I can chop and change provider :-)

does anyone know how long these are valid for? I'm not due to finish my 6 month free deezer subscription until may.

To clarify a little - it wasn't for existing/current users which I think is the point originally made. Google have been generally pretty good with encouraging folks back to the service so returning customers have been able to take advantage unlike, generally, Spotify.

nope, I did a free trial of deezer as a new user. then switched to Google play for a free month. then go the deezer 3 months for 99p, which I'm still on currently. It wasn't for new users only.

And I presume you don't get the Google play music subscriber discount on these?

(So you can pay 5£ for 1 month and then get 10% off a 6 month one?)

This has saved me 30 quid thanks so much guys! also, when i applied the voucher it said 1 month has been applied but says renew in august, strange!

remember that you will get 10% discount for Google play purchases when you are subscribed to this

​thats great, thanks very much!

Doesn't look like you can upgrade to family with this in place?? Just tried.

Excellent - just bought 6 months.

I heard you can share a family plan and it only works out a few quid each per month. Can it be shared with people outside your family safely or do they get access to your details/payment methods?

I've got the same £7.99 pricing, and the wording gave me confidence that my normal subscription (i.e. £7.99) would continue after my voucher.

Don't forget that you can pay with gift vouchers, currently a saving of 10% from CDkeys. Roughly £4.50/month.

Thank you.
Just gifted myself 2 x 6months. Next billing date 11-Mar-2017 :smile:

It hadn't occurred to me that could be a problem, but my account says "Monthly Subscription 7.99, Renews on such and such date" so looks like us early adopters should be ok.

not the best offer - they were offering it for 99p recently and I think for 3 months. I'm currently with Deezer for 99p for 3 months (for the second time).

This is exactly what I have been waiting for. Thanks :smiley:
PS
If I am not mistaken the regular price for this service is about £2 in Russia...

shame its not the family one you can share, voted hot mind as its a great price

I signed up to Google play music at the start and have a reduced rate of £7.99p/m. Any idea if i'd still get the reduced rate after any gift subscription has been applied?

Thanks in advance

If I already have a subscription can I cancel and use this instead?

​That could be it, I never bothered adding my library since I wouldn't be able to access it from my phone. Currently I've got all 3 services on the go, I need to make up my mind :smile:

If you redeem the gift certificate it stacks on top of your free trial. My trial was due to expire in April, now I don't start to pay full price until October. I have 3 months on a new chromecast I bought last week and I expect that to stack on top too.

True, no desktop app for music playback but there is a desktop app for uploading your music - well, more of a tool that points Google to your library location and uploads in the background.

What I will say though is that the browser experience is far superior to Spotify's browser experience. And I envy you your speedy Spotify desktop experience! I think the issue is around the size of my personal lilbrary which is linked. I think it tries to re-catalogue the library on each start up. It honestly takes minutes to search then start streaming a song.

If I start the 3 month trial today and purchase the 6 month subscription gift also can/should I wait to redeem it for myself?

​Shame Google doesn't have a proper desktop app. Personally I don't find Spotifys to be slow. Looked at Google Play for the upload feature but no desktop app is a killer. Deezer doesn't have one either :disappointed:

Any Chromecasts left with credit on?

This offer has finally convinced me to stop buying all my music and stream it all. Lots of music on there when you do subscribe. A year for 60 quid plus I took the free trial. I'll wait until that finishes and then redeem my gifts to myself haha!

AWESOME! You can gift yourself, Just did 6 months and says regular subscriptions will continue from september!

For those using the free three months at Christmas still, does the gift subscription stack on top (i.e. starting towards the end of March) or does it start instantly?

Can you buy these cheap gift subscriptions for yourself?

Can these be rolled over.

No one year though :disappointed: