How to get Google Music for free?
You don't have to pay to benefit from Google Music. Find out how to sign up to the free version of Google Play Music or get the free trial of Google Play Music Unlimited.
Google’s answer to Spotify is called Google Play Music, a music streaming service that costs £9.99/US$9.99 per month and gives you unlimited access to millions of songs. You can get Google Play Music for free, though. Here we show you how you can get the Google Play Music free trial and if you need to earn free Google play Creadit use GplayReward.com
How to get the Google Play Music free trial?
The best way to get Google Play Music for free is by taking advantage of the 30-day trial. It is completely ad-free and you’ll have access to the entire library with unlimited skips.
You can sign up for the trial by clicking here, but be sure to cancel before you’re charged. You can cancel the subscription right away and continue using your 30 day trial confident that you won’t have to pay the £9.99 at the end of it.
Signing up also entitles you to four months of YouTube Red, which not only removes ads from YouTube videos, but lets you view videos offline and listen to music videos with your phone screen off.
Play Music offers a catalog of 40 million tracks, which is about the same as Spotify. And unlike Spotify, Google's service also allows you to listen to tracks you've uploaded to your digital locker. In addition to streaming, Play Music enables subscribers to download offline content for consuming later, which is a boon for frequent fliers or subway riders.
Meanwhile Red entitles you to view some cool exclusive content of its own, including the much-anticipated Karate Kid series Cobra Kai. The trial subscription is available to new customers only, and when the four-month period is over, you'll either have to cancel (losing access to the service) or start paying the monthly fee.
Pro tip: Schedule yourself a cancellation reminder as soon as you sign up with your favorite calendar app. (Like, for example, Google Calendar.) That will ensure that you don't get charged if you decide that you don't want to stick with the service.
Note: This deal is a couple of days old, but as of Tuesday April 3 at 9AM ET, we confirmed it was still active. As a new subscriber, if you have issues signing up with Chrome (you don't see the offer page above), try another browser like Safari or Firefox
Note that those who subscribe to Google Play Music also get free access to YouTube Music Premium, which begins rolling out on 22 May 2018.
How to get the free version of Google Play Music?
For a truly free version of Google Play Music, you can go to the same sign-up page on which you’ll find access to the free trial (here) but instead of clicking subscribe you need to click ‘No Thanks’. You’ll still need to add a card or Paypal account, but as long as you don’t buy any music from the Play store you won’t be charged.
There’s a major catch here, though. Unlike the likes of Spotify and Deezer, Google’s free version is not at all like it’s paid for version. You won’t get access to the streaming library at all (with Spotify and Deezer you get ads, a set number of skips and other limited features with the free version but otherwise access to the same service).
Instead, you’ll be able to upload up to 50,000 of your own songs to Google Play Music that you’ll be able to listen to across all of your devices including iOS. These can be MP3 files you’ve purchased from anywhere. You’ll also get recommendations based on your tastes.
While still a very useful service, it’s probably not quite what you were expecting from a free version of Google Play Music (it surprised us, too). If a free music streaming service is what you’re after, you won’t find that from Google. Instead you’ll need to look to Spotify or Deezer.
