[Nexus 4 Themes and Apps] Cor-master:
Which one do you enjoy more? Google or Spotify? Couldn't tell by your post lol.

I have been a big slacker user for a year now, was recommended to me when Pandora was causing my previous phone to overheat and shut off (really can't explain that). I ended up enjoying it alot more. In February they updated their app to a beautiful new ui that looks like a cross between holo and metro and added a new $9.99 all access option. I didn't really think much about getting it but then google launched their all access for $7.99 and a free month. I continued to pay for slacker pro ($3.99) for the first month, then decided to kill slacker in favor of gmusic. Really liked having an unlimited pot of music to choose from and I needed another month.

But I really like having radio, and I hate ads and google music's lack of a reliable radio option just proved frustrating. I mean you can only choose one thing to base your radio station off of, and then it never learns you're preferences! Thumbs up and thumbs down seem to do nothing, hell when it plays a song you rated again, the ratings are gone. Have these developers seriously never played with launchcast, last.fm, Pandora, or slacker before? Also it's auto playlists are terrible... Wtf does all American rejects have to do with Muse? Or I start a techno station and I getting rap and alternative songs. Absolute garbage!

Other issues? Again the platform thing. Imo google is terrible at supporting other platforms. I honestly believe they only support ios to keep apple lawyers from suiing them for patent infringement! I have a roku and an xbox 360 that both have very nice slacker apps, and even on my ps3 I can play services through the Web browser. I went to google music on xbox Web browser and you know what I got "You must have flash 11 installed". Wtf google? YouTube works on everything without flash!

Finally the app, while beautiful and easy to navigate, has many glaring issues. First of all its bulky, I mean forget multitasking if your playing music. The battery drains very fast and my Nexus 4 feels more like a nexus one. One day I was playing music over bluetooth and sending a text, then I wanted to take a picture of something. My phone which had never broke a sweat before became overwhelmed, screen went black, and the boot screen came up! On my Nexus 7, which is a generation behind hardware wise to the 4, the whole tablet becomes virtually unusable and music skips if you try to do anything. The app before the overhaul after IO never an issue with crippling a device before, hell it ran fine on my Captivate I had a little over a year ago.

Next let's talk bugs. My bluetooth headset controls only work with it intermittently, most of the time they're unresponsive, tapping the controls from the notification bar on the lockscreen will not open the app, and I narrowed my lockscreen widget issue down to google music, it simply doesn't do that on slacker.

Finally what the app is missing Artist bios, album descriptions, option to buy straight from the app, year released, etc all you really get is the album and a picture.

I gave the service 2 months and really wanted to love it, but overall it's just not ready for prime time. I'll never get why google releases stuff before it's ready, it's chrome for android all over again!