This limited time promotion expired… For a limited time, the white noise app “White Noise” by TMSOFT is offered for FREE on iTunes. This is featured in Apps Gone FREE.
[DEAD] FREE (Limited Time): White Noise app by TMSoft (iTunes)
[DEAD] 1-Year Dropbox PRO + $50 Gift Card for $100 (ends Tue 3am ET)
I don’t know why Dropbox waited until AFTER the Amazon Gold Deal to announce their mobile folder sync option, because this is a great feature for music 🙂 Regardless the Gold Box offer is now over…
If you like to store or backup or stream your music from a semi-DIY cloud, among the Monday gold box offers is a Dropbox PRO promotion. This is for brand new PRO subscribers, in other words, you can’t use this offer to add years to an existing PRO or Business subscriptions. You can use this to upgrade from the Free tier or start a new subscription. You get one year of the Dropbox PRO subscription (includes 1TB of cloud storage) and a $50 Amazon plastic gift card, together for $100. After the first year ends, this auto-renews at $99 per year unless you cancel it. Offer ends by Tuesday at 3am ET.
[DEAD] Buy a CD or Vinyl, Get $20 Amazon Music Subscription service credit
This promotion expired, but it’s a sign of how Amazon is planning to aggressively promote their Music Subscription service… I am guessing similar offers (at least in spirit) to this will appear in the future…
12 months of Apple Music subscription for $99
The default price for full-service music subscription services is $10 per month, but sometimes there are prepaid promotions, such as this one, PayPal Digital Gifts (a PayPal e-gift card eBay store) is offering 12-months of Apple Music for $99, prepaid upfront. This is savings of $21 when paying monthly, according to the calculator a 17.5% discount. In addition to the usual assortment of Apple options (iOS, iTunes Mac or PC, Apple TV, etc), you can also use the Google Play Apple Music app for it. It is also compatible with the iTunes Match service.
NOTE: if you qualify for student discounts, you can get a $5 per month subscription, which handily defeats $99 per year.
New Full Service Music Streaming Option: Amazon Unlimited for $8/mo (Prime members) or $10 (non-members)
One more music subscription service has rolled out today, it is the Amazon Unlimited music subscription that is a full service like Spotify and Apple and Google Play Unlimited. You pay $10 per month if you are not a Prime member and $8 per month if you are a Prime member. You can cancel at any time. It just launched today and you can start a 30-Day Free Trial.
A family plan for $15 per month that includes up to six people for that one monthly price will be coming soon. Prepaid options are also coming if you are willing to prepay for 1-year ahead of time
This new service is different and should not be confused with the Prime Music service that is automatically included with a Prime membership. This will continue as it is. The Prime Music only includes a subset of what a typical music subscription service. In Amazon terms, this has 2+ million tracks, while the for-pay Unlimited service has 10+ million tracks.
Regardless of Prime membership status, Amazon’s Music apps also automatically (and retroactively) include MP3 versions of music CDs or vinyl LPs you purchased from Amazon through the years. Eligibility for this is two-fold: 1) the musician/publisher must be participating in Amazon’s “Auto RIP” program, and, 2) you must have purchased it from Amazon actual (not marketplace sellers), and in new condition.
Free 2-month Pandora One subscription
If you are Pandora-curious (double pun intended!), you can open the box at Groupon Goods where, for a limited time, they are offering a free 2-month subscription to the Pandora One subscription service (no ads) for FREE! You can get one for yourself and three additional as gifts for others.
PS: after the 2-month trial, this automatically converts to the $5/month plan regular price, so be sure to cancel if you don’t like it or upgrade to the annual plan to save on the monthly fees if you like it.
PS2: note that Pandora One is a radio service, not a proper streaming service like Rhapsody (ha!) or Tidal or Spotify or Google Play Music All Access.
PS3: I still have nightmares, helplessly trying to sync the Rhapsody music subscription Windows Client with the Sandisk Clip Plus mp3 players 🙂
Share Google Play paid music apps with other people or Google accounts
If you buy a lot of music-related Google Play apps and want to share them with your family members and/or if you have more than one Google account (eg work, personal, hobby), you may be able to share paid Android apps among them without having to rebuy them. This because Google just launched the Family Library feature through Google Play. You can connect up to six Google accounts to it.
Paid music apps (eg Poweramp, PlayerPro, MusicFolder Player, etc; not subscription services) follow the terms and restrictions of apps, so whether you can share it depends on when you bought it. Purchases made after July 2 are eligible, while earlier purchases are at the discretion of the developer (it will be shown on the app’s details page). While you can share apps, in-app purchases cannot be shared, so how useful this is depends on how your favorite apps are structured.
In terms of Google’s actual music service, it cannot be shared through this feature, however, Google has a Music Family Plan for a reasonable $15 per month.
PS: I haven’t tested this feature yet, but I added it to my Todo list. So expect a post on this by 2030 🙂
PSA: You can now pay Google Play Music Subscription Monthly Fees with Google Play Balance
If you are a Google Play All Access Music service monthly subscriber, there is some good news! You can now use your Google Play account balance to pay for the subscription, you don’t have to use a credit card. I just noticed this today while I was shuffling through the settings in the Android app. I switched it there, and also double-checked with a Web Browser on a computer and indeed the option is there as well!
Here’s how it looks on the computer Web Browser (it’s a very tight screenshot because I don’t want to include the credit card numbers):
Poweramp Full Version for $1 [Google Play]
The full version (no ads) of the popular Poweramp Android music player is on sale for a limited time for $0.99 on the Google Play store. This is not available on the Amazon app-store. If you are not familiar with it, they have a 15-day Free Trial of the Free Version. I do not know when the $0.99 sale ends.
Music Folder Player Full for $1.29 (no ads; Google Play)
If you are like to listen to music album by album (or folder by folder) and you are tired of busy-body Android music players that suffer from feature sprawl and resource hogging, there’s a folder player on sale at Google Play for $1.29, the Music Folder Player Full (no ads) by ZorillaSoft. This is the full app, not an unlocker. You can try it out by using their free ad-supported player (if you don’t hate ads with an unquenched passion). Obviously does not have the features and customizations of apps like Poweramp but sometimes more is less.
A couple of tips: 1) you can disable the Equalizer and also make it disappear from the UI, 2) turn off notifications if you get annoyed when each new track appears there, 3) specify music folders so the app doesn’t have to search for music everywhere. For more check the developer’s FAQ.
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