Been using a Pixel for a week now. I feel that if my iPhone 3G had been allowed to evolve peacefully for eight years, it'd be the Pixel.
I'm going to have to try a Pixel. The reviews seem glowing. Do you sync music to it? What do you use to keep track of your digital music?
I second Google Play Music. You can point it to a folder on your computer and it'll upload up to 20k songs that you can then stream or download to any device. For free. You can also add Spotify-like streaming for a monthly fee, which is what I did after a while.
Think it says 40k now. Mine's syncing at least 38k songs. But it has been since it was saying 20k. A couple of my friends have that whole spotify-like thing. I'll usually say "check out this band" and Google will have one or zero of their albums. People with esoteric tastes may be disappointed. I know for a fact that a lot of the time when it's streaming stuff at me, it's streaming my music at me because I recognize the errors in the files.
takes breath, licks lips So what I have is a catastrophe, but it works. Master device: Mac Mini 2014, which is an unadulterated chunk of shit Backup: Carbon Copy Cloner speaking to an 8-bay Synology DSM Sync A: Plex, also running on the Mac MIni, at least for now (might become an nVidia Shield) Sync B: Google Play Music Playback A: Google Play Music, which I don't pay for Playback B: Plex, which allows local download to Android and iOS It has the advantage of giving a couple pathways to success. It has the disadvantage of requiring a closetful of tech. Google will tell you that if you sync to Play Music, you can restore from it like a backup. THEY'RE LYING. I had to do that and it failed out of about 60% of my music. The Synology allows you to back up to Crashplan or Amazon, and I do. And I could probably cook off iTunes at this point and just go Plex but the Plex music interface isn't quite there yet. Maybe another year or so.