[potater]

My overall experience with Google Music has been kinda meh. I like their sharing functionality, but my first purchase was a pain in the butt….

I finally decided to buy a few albums during the big music sale G Music promoted during the holiday season. Unfortunately every time I'd check out it would prompt me to log in again. During this I noticed that at least some element of the process was using a different subdomain than the album page I was checking out from. Not sure if the login cookie just wasn't persisting across differing subdomains domains or my browser was set to block cookies set by third parties, but I vaguely remember having to manually whitelist the domain in Chrome's cookie exception manager to complete my purchase. It took a moment to figure out because there was no particular useful error - just the prompt to log in again.

I have no idea if I previously changed a setting in Chrome that resulted in this annoyance or if it was a default setting in Chrome, but that nearly prevented me from buying from Google's music service. There's no way someone like my Mom or sister would've figured that out. I hope they resolved that component assuming the problem wasn't limited to just my set up because at the time I thought it was rather silly that I wasn't able to easily purchase from a Google browser without modifying settings.

[thewordis]

It's caused by the checkbox to deny third-party cookies, and it's on their known issues page.

http://support.google.com/androidmarket/bin/static.py?hl=en&...

[potater]

Ahh, thanks for the heads up, thewordis. It's nice to know that they're aware of the problem.