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For the Android music player fans, the Adblocker (ad remover) for the NRG Player is currently FREE for a limited time on Google Play. The price before this promotion was $5. This is the unlocker (ad remover). To play music, you also need to install the main NRG Player app.
Also free during this promotion is their Robo Skin and Car Skin.
For a limited time only, Google Play is offering the otherwise not-free PowerAudio Pro Music Player for FREE. It goes for $0.99 typically.
Another music app, the PlayerPro Music Player is on sale for $2, instead of its usual price of $4.
If you like to buy music or music apps or sign-up for music subscription services through Google Play, CVS brick and mortar stores are running a Google PLAY gift card promotion until the end of day on Saturday 5/27/17. You buy a $50 Google Play gift card, and the cash register will spit out a $10 CVS Extra Bucks rewards. This is store credit that you can spend in future purchases at CVS. It has to get spent in one transaction, so you must be willing to make a $10+ purchase there in the future.
This limited time offer expired as of a 1/18/17 re-check…
Now that the monthly Google Play Music subscription service can be paid with Gift Card balance (you no longer need to pay it with a credit card if you have a gift card balance that covers the monthly subscription fee), this deal became a lot better!
To take advantage of this, you have to be a member of the AMEX-powered Plenti rewards program. The offer is at RiteAid stores. You buy a $25 Google Play gift card (the plastic kind), and you get 600 points. 600 points are the equivalent of $6 in future purchases at RiteAid and other participating retailers. This is a limit two promotion for the week of 7/31/16 AM until 8/6/16 PM.
These offers return every few months at RiteAid, so you can use them to stock up in credit and have a regular discount on your monthly subscription fee. If you are on the $10/month plan, this offer gets you five months of service. If you are on the $15/month family plan, that’s three months with some change left.
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 🙂
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):
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.
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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