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Add to SafariWhen comparing Doggcatcher vs Google Play Music, the Slant community recommends Google Play Music for most people. In the question“What are the best podcast apps for Android?” Google Play Music is ranked 8th while Doggcatcher is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Google Play Music is:
Google Play Music is a free service for storing and streaming ones library that has zero advertisements in the interface as well as the playing music.
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Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Homescreen widget
Users can place a widget for the app on any of their home screens, which allows for easy controls of what is playing through the controls on the widget.
Pro Chromecast support
Users can cast their podcasts to othet Chromecast complient devices and browsers. Making for an easy way to stream content from the device to where they want to listen.
Pro Free no advertisements
Google Play Music is a free service for storing and streaming ones library that has zero advertisements in the interface as well as the playing music.
Pro Instant mixes
Google Play Music can make smart recommendations for playlist by the user just picking an artist or song they want recommendations formed from.
Pro Also offers streaming service
GPM can be used as a normal music player but also as a streaming service like Spotify.
Pro Plays from any source
Plays local music as well as from DLNA sources, so I can play from my home servers as well.
Pro Upload library through browser
Google has added the option of uploading songs through the browser with the help of a Chrome extension download as well as directly through the desktop Chrome app.
Cons
Con No cloud sync
A glaring missing feature is that there is no cloud sync for the app, so any podcasts added to one device will not be able to be brought over to another. This can be time consuming for users who use multiple devices in that they would need to individually add their podcasts one by one to each install.
Con View original messages, photos
Con Confusing to use
Con No folder support
Con Want credit card info before using "free" service
Con Status bar not sensitive nor customizable
There is no way to go easily go back a specific amount of time (for example: Audible has a button that allows you to go back 30 seconds).
The status bar could be more time specific. If you want to go back to a particular segment of listening, there is no way to know exactly where you will land. You have to do some kind of guessing and it is annoying. Lot of time wasted in searching in a blind manner.
Con Quality only as high as 320kbps MP3s
There is no option to listen to lossless music, even if that is what the user has uploaded. The highest quality is 320kbps MP3s. If a lossless track has been uploaded and the user then downloads the track at a later date the file will also only be a 320kbps MP3.
Con No way to start the app in ones library
The app offers no way to actually start up in ones library, either in the desktop Chrome app or the Android app. For those that only use this app for listening to their purchased or uploaded music this is pretty annoying as there s no real need for the front page of recommendations and activity. This doe snot necessarily need to be some social platform but just a way to listen to ones music, really the user should have the choice, especially if they are paying for this service through purchased music or their streaming service.
