New Google Music Service

I was excited to try the new Google Music Service with the opportunity to add any music to my listening library. I found Google Music took more data in the past to stream my own music so I would pin the music I enjoyed the most to download to my phone. It wasn't that big of a deal since my Verizon Nexus had 32GB of space with no external card usage available. I typically use about 17GB of music.

I have committed to purchasing the new Verizon Samsung GS4 which only has 16GB of space with an extra memory card slot. It just so happens that I must have dropped my Nexus one too many times and it was not working very good at all. So I immediately sought after another phone to get by until the GS4 to becomes available. I ended up getting a like new Samsung Galaxy Note 2 which gave me the perfect opportunity to try the closest thing to the GS4.

Obviously with only Note 2 only has 16GB of space, so I decided to place my music directly on the SD Card which will make it easier when I get my GS4.

And then comes the new Google Play Music Service. It was exciting to get to add any album available through Google Music to my library, but... While it is not like the music is available to do download to your computer files as the music you purchase. And we are back to the storage issue.

Google Music will include music in the library that I place on an SD Card, but it won't allow a user to change the storage of the files saved from Google Music without rooting the phone. Therefore if you are not storing the SD Card, you will be streaming it.

Streaming music with Google Music sounds awesome, but it uses too much data. I have used it for less than a week and it appears that my data usage is rocketing upwards very quickly. The new radio feature is nothing new as a user of Pandora, but it still uses too much data.

Therefore I would like Google Music and would continue my subscription if it would save music to my SD Card.