From the comments:

"I reached out to play support via email, and here is the response I got: "We're aware of a streaming issue with the Google Play All Access app and the Nexus Q and are working on a fix""

So much for Made in America.

Seriously though, the Q wasn't a bad idea. I would've gladly purchased a Google-branded audio player if it weren't so ridiculously overpriced.

I guess I have a collector's item then :-/

Nexus Q was barely a commercial product for like a few days. And didn't they gave them away for free in the end? Hardly anyone will cry over this.

That being said, I wish they kept the name, and relaunch it as a completely different product, as an Android-based console with the latest chip, more RAM, more storage, and so on, for $200, as a competitor to OUYA.

Give it passthru HDMI support a la Google-TV and I'm sold, even at $300 or $400.

Especially if it had DVR functionality (even through a third party app).

Why?! I just don't get it.

...said every person who read the product description, ever.

Were there any real owners of Q? Was it ever sold?

Rumored to have less than 1,000 pre-orders, then they just gave them to all those people for free and called it a dev product. So it cost them a couple hundred thousand and saved a good amount of future support of the device. Plus it was an unusual decision which got them some good press and might encourage people to preorder in the future just in case something like this happens again.

I think it was meant to be sold, but I recall them just giving them away for free for people that originally bought them.