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The swiping is more accurate, short 2 letter words are picked correctly by it whereas SwiftKey would mix up words like to and too quite often. The Beta of Swype was the same although the Holo theme wasn't in it whereas it is in the non beta (also a version newer).

Fast typing auto correction in Swype I find more accurate as well.
 
AndyCr15 said:
You're finding Swype better than SwiftKey?
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I have used Swiftkey for months, thought I would check Swype out for less than £1 and uninstalled swiftkey. The only aspect I miss is being able to add spaces as part of the flow process - but swpes seems more intuitive, its more accurate and it gives a load of choices as opposed to swiftkeys 3
 
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I'll skip the google music system then until other apps can read it. I see it a point of a waste of space syncing local and google music when I have a 64GB card in my phone anyway!
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I can see where you're coming from... I only have a Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 with 13Gb of 'Actual' storage (which I have about 9Gb on the Nex4 and 6Gb on the Nex7 :D )...

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Just noticed a Weird one with Google Play Music (it's been reported, but I've only just found the 'issue' myself)...

Google Play Music will 'Censor' some of your music using 'Google Content Match' and 'replace' your uploaded album/track with their stored censored version!!

I decided to listen to 'The Slim Shady LP' and was shocked to find it was the soft/censored version!! (which sounds crap!!) although the version on my PC was the 'Explicit' version!!!..

So I copied this over to another location, and edited the mp3 tags to add (Explicit Version) to the album, pointed the Music Manager to this new version and it uploaded the 'Un-Censored' version!!..

A tad annoying, but this seems to be the only album it's effected (so far!!)
 
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mrk said:
Yeah with that kind of censoring, I will not be using such service :/
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i'm not sure its intentional censoring, more to do with their automatch system picking up the wrong version...

Personally i'm using google music for 'online' content then player pro for my local stuff, although you can use google music for playing ondevice stuff its not such a nice interface etc.
 
Heh, just noticed my Slim Shady LP is the censored version too :D. I'll have to reupload it when I get home. I mustn't have any songs from it on my playlist since all the Eminem songs I have on the playlist are the explicit versions.

Edit: yeah, it's not "censoring" it's because Google try and match your songs to theirs to save you having to upload everything, so occasionally they choose the wrong song/album version :).
 
Simian said:
I can see where you're coming from... I only have a Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 with 13Gb of 'Actual' storage (which I have about 9Gb on the Nex4 and 6Gb on the Nex7 :D )...

***Edit***

Just noticed a Weird one with Google Play Music (it's been reported, but I've only just found the 'issue' myself)...

Google Play Music will 'Censor' some of your music using 'Google Content Match' and 'replace' your uploaded album/track with their stored censored version!!

I decided to listen to 'The Slim Shady LP' and was shocked to find it was the soft/censored version!! (which sounds crap!!) although the version on my PC was the 'Explicit' version!!!..

So I copied this over to another location, and edited the mp3 tags to add (Explicit Version) to the album, pointed the Music Manager to this new version and it uploaded the 'Un-Censored' version!!..

A tad annoying, but this seems to be the only album it's effected (so far!!)
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If they already have a version of the song uploaded they won't upload yours to save data, so that might be the cause too.
 
Simian said:
I can see where you're coming from... I only have a Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 with 13Gb of 'Actual' storage (which I have about 9Gb on the Nex4 and 6Gb on the Nex7 :D )...

***Edit***

Just noticed a Weird one with Google Play Music (it's been reported, but I've only just found the 'issue' myself)...

Google Play Music will 'Censor' some of your music using 'Google Content Match' and 'replace' your uploaded album/track with their stored censored version!!

I decided to listen to 'The Slim Shady LP' and was shocked to find it was the soft/censored version!! (which sounds crap!!) although the version on my PC was the 'Explicit' version!!!..

So I copied this over to another location, and edited the mp3 tags to add (Explicit Version) to the album, pointed the Music Manager to this new version and it uploaded the 'Un-Censored' version!!..

A tad annoying, but this seems to be the only album it's effected (so far!!)
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That's down to the tags as you realized, it's not google censoring. I sat through and (painfully, over the course of about 10 hours in all) re-tagged all of my music using proper tags prior to uploading. It made a massive difference to the upload time because as was all properly tagged, most of it was already available. I'm talking a few hours for just under the 20k track limit. About the worse i've seen is google replacing some of my rare remaster rips with the standard versions, such as the jap releases of Metallica albums and so on. Hardly a problem when everything's transcoded to mp3 anyway :p

Google music is fantastic and i love the mixes it throws together for you on the home page. I just wish the pc browser client was a bit more reliable as it' seems to be very hit and miss for me lately.

as for having to pay for it, nope - it's free. and as for having too much music to upload....didnt stop me and i have quite a healthy collection (>500gb at least). Ok, so I cant upload all of it, but so what? My google play music is now available anywhere i have an internet connection and i think 20,000 tracks is surely enough for anybody to make good use of it.
 
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The Notification tone in Android settings is the default tone for apps that don't allow you to choose a tone or the default tone within the OS. Individual tones are set on a per app basis in the settings for those apps respectively.

Gmail, Email, WhatsApp, Facebook etc all allow you to choose custom tones.
 
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