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I'd be more excited if the android music app was at all usable.
 
If it's better than Grooveshark, I'm willing to give it a shot. Right now I really enjoy Grooveshark's massive library. Something similar, with Google's name behind it, should manage to have a larger userbase with more content.

Sounds perfect for me as long as it's free.
 
Satchwar said:
If it's better than Grooveshark, I'm willing to give it a shot. Right now I really enjoy Grooveshark's massive library. Something similar, with Google's name behind it, should manage to have a larger userbase with more content.

Sounds perfect for me as long as it's free.
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You do realize that this is ... just online storage for music you already own?
 
Awesomeness.

My job blocks Amazon, Pandora and Grooveshark but not Google. This could be my around it. YES!!!!


rezuth said:
You do realize that this is ... just online storage for music you already own?
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I'm aware. I can upload ALL of my music to their servers. I only have a 8gb iPod Nano.
 
sounds like something i'd use

my laptop doesn't have enough space for my music so I end up using youtube or grooveshark most of the time.
 
“Unfortunately, a couple of the major labels were less focused on the innovative vision that we put forward, and more interested in in an unreasonable and unsustainable set of business terms,” says Jamie Rosenberg, who oversees digital content and strategy for Google’s Android platform.

The lack of licenses from the music labels means that Google’s music service won’t have one thing that Amazon already has: The ability to sell songs to consumers. On the other hand, Rosenberg says that his service will have features that Amazon doesn’t, including a service that automatically creates playlists for users.

And at least initially, Google’s offering will offer more free storage than Amazon does: The service which rolls out in an invite-only beta tomorrow, will offer users the ability to store up to 20,000 songs. Amazon’s service launched with 5 gigabytes of free storage, or the rough equivalent of about 2,000 songs, though it offered users the chance to upgrade to 20 gigabytes for a nominal fee.
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http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/201...service-tomorrow-without-big-musics-approval/
 
giga said:
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/201...service-tomorrow-without-big-musics-approval/
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I don't understand when I see articles like this. The RIAA is screaming piracy is ruining its business, OK, offer consumers a convenient way to download or stream music with fees. Nope we would rather perpetuate an iTunes monopoly and then later we hear Apple are bullying them into lowering tariffs. In addition Spotify appears to have negotiated the minefield to debut a competitive music streaming option with purchase in there as well. So how come Spotify can do it yet Google and Amazon can't?

JTwo said:
I'd be more excited if the android music app was at all usable.
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It is I use it daily.
 
Cool but beaten to the punch. I'll stick with Amazon, especially since it's unlimited storage if you buy from them, unless Google has something special.
 
Sounds useless really. Amazon has truly beat them to the punch..I'm guessnig all this will do is cause Amazon to up their free storage content.
 
amazon hardly has a stranglehold and it's not like apple can't still come in and wreck shit if they want to.
 
Maybe if the music player is good on the phones. I dont like amazon music player for my phone as it shuffles songs in the same order everytime (at least for me)
 
Congratulations, Google, you've surpassed Microsoft in the let's-just-throw-shit-at-the-wall-in-every-single-product-segment-with-no-coherent-strategy-because-we-can category.
 
I'm down if it's more free storage than Amazon. Plus most people I know haven't heard about the Amazon thing, but if Google can pimp this out as well as pimp it with Android I could see it taking off.

Similar to dropbox my allegiance is with who can give me the most space for free. :P
 
XMonkey said:
edit - nvm, my mistake.

Using Flash is pretty silly. I want this streaming OTA through the Android Music app.
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They are doing it for VBR streaming and DRM (i.e. secure streams). If they didn't, the world would be sharing music faster than torrents.
 
DjangoReinhardt said:
Congratulations, Google, you've surpassed Microsoft in the let's-just-throw-shit-at-the-wall-in-every-single-product-segment-with-no-coherent-strategy-because-we-can category.
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It's actually a very important component of a diskless cloud OS, ie ChromeOS.
 
I would use this if it was high-capacity, available on my iphone, and accessible from chrome at home and school (and free).


edit: and reliable... soundcloud always chugs on my commute to school and leads to me opening the app about half a dozen times to restart the stream. :(
 
Amazon did it earlier and better. If Google is only able to compete on capacity then they shouldn't have bothered.

(Also, buy one album on Amazon MP3 and Amazon gives you 20 gigs instead of 5).
 
I read this as "chances are your company is going to block google at work" =(

thirty said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZGw8TxCtNg
old vid of the new music player interface. an improvement but zune on windows phone is just so much slicker and smoother.

when is google going to implement gpu throughout their UI? it's really choppy when compared to windows phone or iphone.
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It was SUPPOSE to come to Gingerbread but it was pushed back and is expected to come with Ice Cream.

If you want to see smooth

Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYULrpSFu6g

Now imagine it with GPU acceleration *drools*
 
The other thread hinted at 50gb of storage for free compared to paying for 20 gb of storage on Amazon. If true, then that alone is a reason to take it seriously over Amazon.
 
thirty said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZGw8TxCtNg
old vid of the new music player interface. an improvement but zune on windows phone is just so much slicker and smoother.

when is google going to implement gpu throughout their UI? it's really choppy when compared to windows phone or iphone.
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Seeing as how the screenshot I took above is from a honeycomb music player build that runs on gingerbread, I'd say you are more likely to see the honeycomb player on phones than the player in that video.
 
i don't see how this (or amazon's thing either) can be successful at this point. we don't have enough of a standard across multiple platforms for stuff like this. the market for wireless data is also brutal now (in canada at least lol). if i were to rid my hdd of my music and have it on the cloud, i'd want every single device i own to be able to access it. i'd want to be able to ride a plane and have music, drive to work and have music, and walk around the house with my music playing out of my stereo. it just seems like something that will only happen after the whole clusterfuck of incompatible operating systems and wireless data charges is solved.
 
They got beaten to the punch with a superior offering by Amazon.

This isn't offering anything better than Amazon's Cloud Player aside from more free storage capacity, and knowing Amazon they will match that immediately. Amazon is very competitive and always price-matches deals, I see no reason why they wouldn't do the same here.
 
Sean said:
They got beaten to the punch with a superior offering by Amazon.

This isn't offering anything better than Amazon's Cloud Player aside from more free storage capacity, and knowing Amazon they will match that immediately. Amazon is very competitive and always price-matches deals, I see no reason why they wouldn't do the same here.
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Their advantage is that all android phones are tied to a Google account.

I still think Amazon wins though, since they have a music store and credit cards tied to all of their accounts. Amazon is also in a very good position to launch a branded mobile device without Google's support/apps. Too bad they dumped their maps. If I recall, they were the first with street view
 
actually, it would be cool if i can set a song to play when i log into google. Like how i can set a picasa album photo.

its the little things.
 
I'm not convinced that Google knows what it's doing anymore and it's likely they won't be able to convince content owners to agree to licensing without some heavy concessions from Google (you have to remember that a lot of them view Google as being complicit in fascilitating piracy). This is where I move from 'hold' to 'sell' on Google stock.
 
Nice idea, I guess, but it's a bit late to the party. Grooveshark has pretty much every MP3 I "own", and I'm completely happy with that.

I guess it lacks the personal touch offered by Amazon and Google, but whatever. I can live without a few songs here and there if I'm out and about.
 
Phoenix said:
They are doing it for VBR streaming and DRM (i.e. secure streams). If they didn't, the world would be sharing music faster than torrents.
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Adaptive streaming I can understand, but it's odd that they'd want DRM because this is user uploaded content without any licenses or restrictions from the labels.

Amazon at least doesn't care and just plays back your MP3s straight in the browser. The only way to "share" that uploaded music is by sharing your Amazon log in.
 
Satchwar said:
Oh.

Well in that case, this is indeed useless.
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how is this useless?

sync ALL your music to cloud.

go to party, tell them their music sux, play your music.

go to friends house, tell them about a great band, let's all have a listen.

AND SO FORTH.

god everytime a new thing is released everyone imagines how reality currently is and calls the new thing shit. Wait and see, it might not be shit. It's google, they're good at things.
 
catfish said:
how is this useless?

sync ALL your music to cloud.

go to party, tell them their music sux, play your music.

go to friends house, tell them about a great band, let's all have a listen.

AND SO FORTH.

god everytime a new thing is released everyone imagines how reality currently is and calls the new thing shit. Wait and see, it might not be shit. It's google, they're good at things.
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Can't do that with a phone/media player?
 
catfish said:
how is this useless?

sync ALL your music to cloud.

go to party, tell them their music sux, play your music.

go to friends house, tell them about a great band, let's all have a listen.

AND SO FORTH.

god everytime a new thing is released everyone imagines how reality currently is and calls the new thing shit. Wait and see, it might not be shit. It's google, they're good at things.
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Yea, they are great at things like and have never failed with stuff like GUI, Social Networking, Google Wave, Google Answers, Google catalog, Web accelerator, Google TV, Google buzz, Google connect, Google lively, Google Video, lets just stop here cuz I think it would be a shorter list if we wrote what they succeeded with. This is just another of their "throwing shit on the wall to see what sticks" experiment and like the rest it will fail.

Not only did they launch an inferior product to Amazon but it's technically flawed from the start relaying on flash.
 
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