{"id":27754,"date":"2012-08-16T23:35:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T21:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=27754"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:46:10","slug":"how-to-enable-html5-in-google-play-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-enable-html5-in-google-play-music\/","title":{"rendered":"How to enable HTML5 in Google Play Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Even though Rdio<\/a> and Spotify<\/a> are among the most popular streaming music services, I still like listening to my own song files. With my Google connected devices I always have my music collection which currently contains 10,727 songs of my 20,000 limit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When I listen through Google Play Music<\/a>‘s desktop browser, I don’t change any of the settings. But with Adobe pulling support for Adobe Flash on Android<\/a> devices, I figured it might be time to stop depending on Flash in my browser as well.<\/p>\n

Google Play Music has an experimental section called Music labs<\/strong> where you can help test out possible new features. I imagine that HTML5 support will become standard, so enabling the option is worthwhile.<\/p>\n

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Go to Google Play Music settings<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Enable HTML5 Audio<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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When you enable HTML5 audio, Google Play Music will refresh and start playing music with HTML5. The other available options are desktop notifications and changing the “thumbs” rating system with a 5-star system, but those don’t change any important back-end settings.<\/p>\n

You won’t hear a big difference in sound quality by switching to HTML5, but you should experience smoother performance in Google Play Music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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