What's New
v5.0.1026J
* Brand new user interface for phone, tablet, and TV
* Support for All Access subscription service in the US
* Key All Access features: Explore section to discover new music, Radio with unlimited skips, Add albums to My Library, Share and subscribe to playlists
* New Listen Now page that makes it easy to find something to play
* Swipe to remove from playlist or queue
* Swipe to switch songs on the now playing screen or now playing bar
* Go to album or artist from any song
The application has access to the following:
System tools
modify global system settings
Allows an application to modify the systemʼs settings data. Malicious applications can corrupt your systemʼs configuration.
display system-level alerts
Allows an application to show system alert windows. Malicious applications can take over the entire screen of the phone.
prevent phone from sleeping
Allows an application to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
read sync settings
Allows an application to read the sync settings, such as whether sync is enabled for contacts.
read sync statistics
Allows an application to read the sync stats; e.g., the history of syncs that have occurred.
write sync settings
Allows an application to modify the sync settings, such as whether sync is enabled for contacts.
read subscribed feeds
Allows an application to get details about currently synced feeds.
write subscribed feeds
Allows an application to modify your currently synced feeds. This could allow a malicious application to change your synced feeds.
Network communication
full Internet access
Allows an application to create network sockets.
view Wi-Fi state
Allows an application to view the information about the state of Wi-Fi.
view network state
Allows an application to view the state of all networks.
Phone calls
read phone state and identity
Allows the application to access the phone features of the device. An application with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to, ect.
Storage
modify/delete SD card contents
Allows an application to write to the SD card.
Your accounts
act as the AccountManagerService
Allows an application to make calls to AccountAuthenticators
manage the accounts list
Allows an application to perform operations like adding, and removing accounts and deleting their password.
discover known accounts
Allows an application to get the list of accounts known by the phone.
use the authentication credentials of an account
Allows an application to request authentication tokens.
act as an account authenticator
Allows an application to use the account authenticator capabilities of the AccountManager, including creating accounts and getting and setting their passwords.
Other
com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES
com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE
com.google.android.music.store.permission.C2D_MESSAGE
com.google.android.music.download.artwork.RECEIVE_BROADCAST_PERMISSION
android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
I can't figure out how to sync playlist from my PC to my Samsung S3. Tagging your tracks is a bit cryptic with Google Play Music. I always loved the elegant tagging and continuity of the Zune software/hardware. That's right.
Unfortunately Google Play Music is a little clunky. It's not really possible to make it your default music or startup when headphones are connected. That's reserved for the Samsung Music Player.
You even have to use Google Voice recognition instead of the convenient S Voice shortcut to launch a song. Then you still have to touch the screen...
The widget on the phone app stinks. It's too small and for some reason it doesn't have a backwards track button which is stupid because you can't restart the song. You have no control of a gap between songs and the very beginning of EVERY song gets chopped off. Really kills a flow of an album, which is how I prefer to listen to music.