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Google Music Store launches - free music for all! (US)

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Sorry for bumping such an old thread, but I didn't think it was really worth creating a new one.


I just got an email, and it seems that Google Music is now finally available in the UK (not sure about the rest of Europe).

http://play.google.com/intl/en-gb/about/music/unlock/

Unlock your music with Google Play
Set your iTunes® library free
Google Play helps you bring your iTunes library to your Android devices. You can upload up to 20,000 of your songs from your computer to Google Play for free. Once you’ve uploaded your music, it's instantly available on the web and your Android phone or tablet. No wires, downloading or syncing.
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So... what can I do with this?
 
Opus Angelorum said:
Start uploading music?

I'm doing it now (UK).
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I intend to when I get home. I'm at work at the mo, and can't install anything (pointless on the work computer), but more impoirtantly, I can't find any FAQs or info.

What formats/quality does it support?
Does it automatically add Metadata?
Is the Metadata editable?
Can I delete old music to recover the space?




... etc.
 
Thanks again.

I shall have a play with it when I get home, now that I know nothing I do is permanent or permanently eats away at allocation.
 
We're sorry. The Google Play music player is currently only available in the United States.

crum bums!
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To use the upload feature all you have to do is activate the service (go to music.google.com) via proxy/tunnel something like unblock-us.com. Just use the trial as it's a one time thing to do.

After that you can use the service from any country (only for storing your own music)
 
So is it worth transferring my Amazon purchases to this?

I'm likely going to keep buying music from Amazon since they offer substantial and frequent discounts, but I'm willing to transfer them over to Google as I buy them if the interface is better.

I'm not the biggest fan of Amazon's MP3 app/widget on my Android phone and Nexus 7.
 
Opus Angelorum said:
The Google Play Music App is much better than Amazon MP3.
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After the update... by a mile yes. I had put all my eggs in the Amazon basket but after getting shut out of all the songs I uploaded because I'm not paying $25/yr for it I'm done with Amazon and moving back to Google.
 
is it a scan and match metadata service, so it only uploads non-matching tracks therefore saving time, or does it physically upload your files taking an entire weekend?
 
mrklaw said:
is it a scan and match metadata service, so it only uploads non-matching tracks therefore saving time, or does it physically upload your files taking an entire weekend?
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I can't seem to get the scan and match to work. Not sure if it analyses the song or the metadata. The song I assume else you could fool it by just renaming any old file...
 
I keep getting a Pin icon in my notification bar that says "Can't Download Music... check internet connection"

but I'm not trying to download anything. Not sure why this keeps popping up.
 
Thread title needs changing... in hindsight I guess a new thread would have been a better idea.

Sorry, all.





I'm just leaving work now, so I still have a good 2hrs before I can play around with this. I'm loving the idea of it though. If only it was possible to stream to my Xboxes, it would do away with the need to have all my tracks on my PC.

Still, I'll be glad to have a decent back-up option either way.
 
I've been steadily uploading the tracks I have for the past hour or so. It's currently showing the shittiest quality album art ever.

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Does it sort itself out, or am I going to have to replace all of them?
 
The low quality images issue didn’t sort itself out, but a few were higher quality. I’m putting it down to Windows Media Player, which I use to rip my discs, adding crappy low quality album art. A few of my discs which didn’t have any metadata downloaded when I ripped them (Zelda/Mario bonus CD’s, etc) all look fine and I’m attributing this to the fact that I added the album art myself with decent quality images.

Other than that, I’ve had a play around and am pretty happy overall with everything. I’m even at the point where I may buy a couple of tracks from the Google Play Music store. I’ve never bought any digital tracks before, so I’m a bit wary of DRM or restrictions.

Can anyone advise if there are any kind of restrictions on the Google Music store tracks?

Also, if anyone can recommend a decent alternative CD ripper to WMP, I’d appreciate that too. No matter how often I turn off the auto-population of metadata it always seems to do it anyway. I’d rather just add everything myself and a good 60% of the time I have to make changes anyway.
 
Andrex said:
If it matches a song, you get the 320kbps version instantly (compared to iTunes and Amazons' 256kbps.)
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Either you don't know you did this, or you do know you did this and you're being disingenuous :p

But I'll correct it either way; Google Music serves MP3s at 320kbps. iTunes serves AAC files at 256kbps. AAC, by virtue of being ten years newer, is more efficient. You can't do a 1:1 comparison.
 
Andrex said:
Song matching is live in the US, following the Euro launch. No more uploading your gigabytes of music. If it matches a song, you get the 320kbps version instantly (compared to iTunes and Amazons' 256kbps.)
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does anyone know if it "matches" based off the meta-data, or does it analyze the waveform of the song to match?

Basically I have about 1,000 songs with messed up artist/album/song info, I believe it's some iTunes issue.

I'm wondering if I should delete all my music and reupload now that match is here.
 
Stumpokapow said:
Either you don't know you did this, or you do know you did this and you're being disingenuous :p

But I'll correct it either way; Google Music serves MP3s at 320kbps. iTunes serves AAC files at 256kbps. AAC, by virtue of being ten years newer, is more efficient. You can't do a 1:1 comparison.
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I know more about video formats than music, and for video, usually the file type is just a container. But I guess in music the format actually does matter. :P
 
Does anyone know how to use Song Matching? I have a bunch of songs that are clearly on the store but haven't upgraded. It doesn't look like any of them have upgraded and there are a couple thousand songs.
 
Everdred said:
Does anyone know how to use Song Matching? I have a bunch of songs that are clearly on the store but haven't upgraded. It doesn't look like any of them have upgraded and there are a couple thousand songs.
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No clue. There's no indication at all if it's matching. All I see in the music manager is that it's uploading songs.
 
I've started to upload my library to Google Music, however there's some albums it will only upload two or three of the songs. Most of these albums are compilation albums, so I'm guessing it's seeing the other songs are available elsewhere and so not bothering with them. Is there a way to change that, or to manually upload songs?

Quite annoying having a compilation album with two songs in it, lol.
 
Everdred said:
Does anyone know how to use Song Matching? I have a bunch of songs that are clearly on the store but haven't upgraded. It doesn't look like any of them have upgraded and there are a couple thousand songs.
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Are they MP3 or AAC files? I noticed that Google Music won't match a song if it is a different format. It has spent over 60 hours trying to upload my collection, and still has over 7200 songs to go. :(
 
You need to pay attention with the matching too. I uploaded all my CD's and am now noticing some censoring that isn't on the albums, so it's clearly matched with a censored version of the song.


Pain in the arse!
 
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