Saturday, June 15, 2013

Testing Google Play Music's new streaming quality settings

Google Play Music

New Play Music settings could cut your streaming data usage in half

The launch of Google Play Music All Access last month reminded many of us just how much data the app uses for streaming and caching. There were a few things you could do to try and limit your usage, but in the end Google was likely going to stream as high quality of music it could, data caps be damned. Google listened to some of the complaints coming its way about the data usage, and has released an update that gives users better options to limit data usage by lowering the stream quality in Play Music.

Rather than allowing the app to offer as high of quality music as possible given the current connection, users now have three settings -- low, normal and high -- to cap the quality, and therefore data usage, of streaming. We've done a little semi-scientific testing on the new settings, and have found them to be quite effective.

So, let's put things to the test.

read more

    


Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/androidcentral/~3/F8_WHAXouNY/story01.htm

Ariel Castro Filomena Tobias Raquel Pomplun stephen curry Angie Miller nina dobrev nina dobrev

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.