And Google seems to be constantly offering a multi-month free trial of Play Music, so you can try it out for free for a few months to see if you like it before paying for it. (Some of the personalization comes from Google's Songza purchase.) A $9.99 monthly individual subscription gives you unlimited skips and an ad-free music stream. Listen to music for free or with a subscription: Google Play Music offers a competitive alternative to other music services, such as Spotify and Apple Music with personalized playlists and radio stations, podcasts, albums, and individual song tracks you can listen to for free or with a subscription. The app also includes Google Play Protect, which periodically scans your device for potentially harmful apps and checks apps before you download them from the Google Play Store.

Google claims only 0.05 percent of Android devices that download apps solely from its Play Store have a potentially harmful app. Protects device by vetting apps: Google uses in-store and on-device monitoring to guard against harmful apps. The Play Store also serves as an entertainment hub, letting you buy or rent movies, TV shows, books, and music, which you can watch or listen to on your Android device, Chromecast-connected TV, and through the Chrome browser on your Mac or Windows PC. This will give you information on the progress of any syncing files as well as allow you to configure Google Drive in the future.With the Google Play Store app, download apps and games for your Android phone or tablet. Once the Google Backup and Sync software has been configured, a configuration tool will appear in your macOS menu bar. Uncheck the folders you don’t want to sync, click “Start” to complete the configuration process, and then begin syncing your files. That will provide you with a list of available folders. Select either “Sync Everything in My Drive” to sync all of the files from your Google Drive storage, or select individual files by clicking the “Sync These Folders Only” option. You’ll then need to decide which folders from your Google Drive storage you want to automatically sync to your Mac to allow you immediate access.Ĭlick “Got It” to get started. This will use your supplied Google Drive storage quota.Ĭheck the “Upload Photos and Videos to Google Photos” checkbox to automatically upload these to Google Photos and then click “Next” to proceed. “High-Quality” will convert your photos and videos to a lesser quality, but these files won’t count towards your storage quota. If you’d prefer to leave these intact, choose the “Original Quality” option. Select the radio button next to your preferred option. You’ll need to choose the quality of your photo and video uploads.

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