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Bboy AJ said:
You've owned a Mac for a year and already you're an elitist little shit.
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Brettison said:
Just a curious wondering....

Have most people who have gotten invites so far all have some form of Android device? I wonder if people who are already on the Android bandwagon are getting preferential treatment.
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I have a Droid 2 and a CR-48 so I'm going to say maybe? Who knows at this point.
 
Tenks said:
Why not just upload all your music to Grooveshark? That way not only do you have access to it anywhere but so does everyone else...
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That. Groveshark replaced IMEEM for me when Myspace ruined it.
 
Notrollious said:
I have a Droid 2 and a CR-48 so I'm going to say maybe? Who knows at this point.
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I suspect they wanted a plethora of different types of phones, browsers, OSes. It's a beta, after all.
 
Dreams-Visions said:
Question: if hypothetically you could connect to your home server with 100% reliability, would this service still be of benefit to you?
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Dude are you high? THATS A HYPOTHETICAL. It is NEVER ACTUALLY THE CASE.

Things happen, and you need access to this stuff at all times no matter what. The most reliable way is to store it on Google's servers.
 
I have a Cr-48 and a G1 so I guess thats why I got an invite.

Please make an mp3 player with 16gb of local storage and a 3g chip for always on connectivity to google music. Add an FM radio and an interface as slick as my Zunes and it would be perfect.
 
I received my invitation the day after they unveiled the service. As I have no android device it is pretty much useless to me, but I went ahead an uploaded my collection anyhow. :)
 
sooperkool said:
I have a Cr-48 and a G1 so I guess thats why I got an invite.

Please make an mp3 player with 16gb of local storage and a 3g chip for always on connectivity to google music. Add an FM radio and an interface as slick as my Zunes and it would be perfect.
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Would you be willing to pay $20 a month just to stream your music?
 
outunderthestars said:
Would you be willing to pay $20 a month just to stream your music?
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Honestly, if the device was cheap (like maybe $50 or under), the storage space was huge (maybe 200 gigs), and you could access it without your computer being on, I'd highly consider it. I probably wouldn't because I have a smart phone that already does this, but it would be nice to have another device just so I didn't have to tie my phone up.
 
Is there anything you have to do on your phone to get your cloud access? Every time I go to the official music player it says no music found.
 
Expendable. said:
Is there anything you have to do on your phone to get your cloud access? Every time I go to the official music player it says no music found.
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Are you in the beta?
 
I've gotten in too! So far it's not so bad. Gonna test with my phone the next time I go out this weekend to see how the streaming is.
I'll also give out invites if/when they happen.
 
Man, I really want this service, so I can archive my music collection. It'll give a reason to rip my CDs to FLAC.
 
Man I wish these invites were transferable as I have almost no use for this since my music library is pretty small and all synced to my iPod. For the record I also have a CR-48.
 
outunderthestars said:
Would you be willing to pay $20 a month just to stream your music?
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Hell no. What I have on my iPhone is fine. I wouldn't pay a dime -- I've been buying from Amazon a LOT to get free cloud space because I won't even be willing to pay $20 a year for more than 5 GB of it.
 
Dude oh my god, Google should put a visualizer in this thing that just overlays youtube videos and then commission peeps to make FUCKED UP TRIPPY visualizers.

Put me in charge, Google. I can do no wrong.
 
Expendable. said:
Yes, I'm in the beta. I've loaded about 300 songs up. But when I got to my phone (under the same Google account) it says no songs.
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Go to the Artist View, hit menu > Libary Options, make sure "all music" is selected instead of "offline only".

If not, try clearing the cache from the app. Settings > Applications > Music > Clear Cache
 
i got the beta have the og droid, im also in the appinventor beta (which i haven't had the time to try :-/), but im not sure if thats still invite only.
 
How very annoying, on the android app you can pin Artists, Albums, Playlists, but you can't pin individuals songs.

What the blazing fuck is that about?
 
About half my MP3 tags are messed up, but I've decided to fix them as Google Music is pretty awesome and I see myself sticking with it going forward (unless Apple's is somehow way better).

If you are coming from iTunes, I've found the easiest way to fix stuff is to go to the album in iTunes, make a playlist out of it, sync it to Google Music, and then edit the MP3 tags from the playlist in GMusic.
 
I like Amazon cloud drive better than google music. Besides the ugly ass icon and smaller space, I don't find Amazon's version inferior to google in any other way.

The offline music files can be played by better third party software and I can give the songs to my friends.

I will be using the Amazon cloud drive as my primary online library and use google for songs that I done't have enough space to load in Amazon drive.
 
Helping me enjoy my music again this service is. Really good. Started uploading on.. eh.. Thursday or Friday, only 7000 songs in.

I have no portable devices that would make this useful for me in that regards. However I am always on a computer working wherever I'm at (currently the 9 to 5), and having my music with me.. as well as the organization and simplicity (honestly reminds me of the Zune player a bit, which I like).

I will say I have nothing to compare this service to, I personally organize all my music hands on. I only wish that this wasn't just an online application, as I could see myself being able to organize all my music within a week if I could use this (speed/ease being the biggest factor).

I hate streaming anything, but only have had a couple of days (hour within a day) where music was unlistenable, and I will say, I'm super happy so far, but the hiccups in music will stop me from using this all together (again though, only twice, been using this shit daily at different locations)
 
i've been in the beta for a while now. its pretty good. the android player needs some work, but its great for people who dont use itunes.
 
Got my invite yesterday evening. Looks like I was the last GAFer. The one, true chosen one.
 
Anybody having limited playback issues on the browser based player? Sometimes, a lot of songs won't start unless I go and skip like 1 second into the song, then it plays normally... But if I just let it play, a lot of times it won't auto-start.

Might just be my work internet fooling around, but I wasn't sure if anybody else had this too.
 
I really don't like the music uploader. Its dumb as shit. Initially it didn't count how many songs I have in the folder correctly (6k plus), it uploaded songs but kept displaying the wrong song count. After uploading 3k songs it just sat there does nothing.

I deleted the setting and pointed it to my networked mp3 folder again. It counted songs correctly but uploaded nothing. It kept displaying "uploaded 0 of 6XXX songs". WTF you little piece of shit.

Now I have to choose small amount of sub-folders to make it upload.
 
Bboy AJ said:
Got my invite yesterday evening. Looks like I was the last GAFer. The one, true chosen one.
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There can be only one!!!

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Music Beta is awesome. But I don't see myself using much on my phone. Maybe if there are some particular songs I want to listen to and don't have them on my SDcard. But to have access to all my music from any computer with an internet connection is great!

This is going to be great for traveling.
 
I just like that I can easily make a playlist on the computer, and my playlist is right there on my phone. great for the car or parties.
 
I got my invite and tried scanning things in. After about 30 minutes it had only uploaded about 12 songs and it was random which ones were uploaded. The music on the player was also skipping constantly and it was severely slowing down my network, so I just stopped doing it. Maybe I will wait till they work the kinks out.
 
omgkitty said:
I got my invite and tried scanning things in. After about 30 minutes it had only uploaded about 12 songs and it was random which ones were uploaded. The music on the player was also skipping constantly and it was severely slowing down my network, so I just stopped doing it. Maybe I will wait till they work the kinks out.
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That sounds like your home connection is pretty slow.
 
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Okay. I officially want this to be my music organizer. Fuck it for being online only (though I have yet to run into a situation where I needed my music and wasn't online, basically the only time I'd be at a computer or laptop working is online so they are lucky.. for now). I sadly don't mind data admin/organizing work, and I have never been able to tag things exactly how I want in a format I can search and further organize/make playlists/etc.

I bet I'd really love this bitch if I had an android phone :/

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PacoDG said:
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Okay. I officially want this to be my music organizer. Fuck it for being online only (though I have yet to run into a situation where I needed my music and wasn't online, basically the only time I'd be at a computer or laptop working is online so they are lucky.. for now). I sadly don't mind data admin/organizing work, and I have never been able to tag things exactly how I want in a format I can search and further organize/make playlists/etc.

I bet I'd really love this bitch if I had an android phone :/

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Music Beta needs a desktop application just like [B]Picasa[/B]!!! Stat!!

It would be great to use the power search of Google to be able to properly tag and organize the music locally and have it properly sync with what's on the cloud.

I also don't like how the "pinned" tracks are store on the phone. Wish they would retain some legible form of a file name (artist - album - track name, etc). For some reason there are a few tracks that I have pinned and the tag information doesn't seem to be there. Although the Music app knows what these tracks are, something like PoweAMP can't tell what the tracks are...seems the tags are gone.
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I can't find information anywhere on storage limits or pricing structure, it just started uploading all of my music. Anybody know?
 
Yaboosh said:
I can't find information anywhere on storage limits or pricing structure, it just started uploading all of my music. Anybody know?
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Limited to 25K songs. There is no pricing info yet.
 
since posting in this thread I actually switched my Droid out for iPhone, hope an app comes soon. I hooked up my external HD and picked about 3k songs, but uploading is SO SLOW. I don't think my connection is that bad, anyone else experience this?
 
Expendable. said:
since posting in this thread I actually switched my Droid out for iPhone, hope an app comes soon. I hooked up my external HD and picked about 3k songs, but uploading is SO SLOW. I don't think my connection is that bad, anyone else experience this?
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Upload rates are usually much slower than download rates. You can run a test on your Internet, search "Internet speedtest". FiOS is the only ISP I've tried with a crazy fast upload rate.
 
Fatalah said:
Upload rates are usually much slower than download rates. You can run a test on your Internet, search "Internet speedtest". FiOS is the only ISP I've tried with a crazy fast upload rate.
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Yeah, I may do as much as I can today and then just bring my HD into work for the rest. Crazy fast upload speeds there.

Are there any rumors for an iPhone app?
 
I keep seeing bloggers saying that Apple's cloud service is Google Music done right, but does Apple's thing even let you stream music? If not then it seems like even with iCloud, there'd still be a use to subscribing to Google Music. To me the whole draw of "cloud music" is that you don't actually need the storage space on your mobile device to fit 20,000 songs, you can just stream your library like you would stream Pandora or Spotify.
 
sykoex said:
I keep seeing bloggers saying that Apple's cloud service is Google Music done right, but does Apple's thing even let you stream music? If not then it seems like even with iCloud, there'd still be a use to subscribing to Google Music. To me the whole draw of "cloud music" is that you don't actually need the storage space on your mobile device to fit 20,000 songs, you can just stream your library like you would stream Pandora or Spotify.
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The licensing part is what's done right.
 
sykoex said:
I keep seeing bloggers saying that Apple's cloud service is Google Music done right, but does Apple's thing even let you stream music? If not then it seems like even with iCloud, there'd still be a use to subscribing to Google Music. To me the whole draw of "cloud music" is that you don't actually need the storage space on your mobile device to fit 20,000 songs, you can just stream your library like you would stream Pandora or Spotify.
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On Android use Google Music. On iOS use iCloud. That said, not being able to stream with iCloud really makes Google music the superior service.
 
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