Make Google Music Work (Sort-of) on iPhone, iPad (iOS)
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Jun 17th, 2011 |
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No, I’m not back from my self-imposed leave of absence, but I do have a super quick post to help out people who’ve made it into the Google Music beta and are using an iPhone, iPad, iPod, or some such iOS device.
If you’ve been trying to use it and found it to be frustrating, you’re not alone. Here’s a couple quick tips on how to make Google Music remotely useful on your iPhone or iPad:
- To scroll your list of albums/artists/etc., use two finger scrolling. If you’re not familiar with two-finger scrolling, plop two fingers down on the device’s screen and then drag. You should see the page move to reveal more artists/albums/tracks/etc.
- To get the damn thing to play, open up an album and select a track. Touch the play button at the bottom and give it a few seconds. If you don’t hear music but see the EQ bouncing next to the track’s name, then hit the back arrow on your browser. You should see that you still have the music controls down in the bottom iFrame, so hit pause and then hit play again and, just like magic, it should play! (It does take a few seconds to load, even on wifi.)
That’s it. For those of you lucky enough to get in, this should make it moderately useful while we wait for Apple to offer a service that’s better integrated into the iPhone/iPad.
This was super helpful. Very frustrating experience and no app yet.
Glad it helped a bit. I’m not sure we’ll see a standalone app any time soon, but I am surprised this hasn’t been addressed in the web app. Google is usually reasonably quick to fix/make changes on their web apps.
Super helpful. Thank you! This was annoying the hell out of me. Just tried it on my ancient iPhone 3GS and the two-finger scrolling worked like a charm. Thanks again.