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Just requested an invite.. looks promising
I just got an invite tonight and I'm uploading my entire music catalog. 6,000 songs on my ty connection will probably take me quite some time (although if the upload works at school then it won't be so bad). It seems like Amazon cloud but instead of the 5 gig limit Amazon was pimping Google is letting me upload up to 20,000 songs (can't imagine how long that would take).
I've heard that the cloud services like this will of course be up for huge legal challenges but it seems pretty awesome with its integration with Android.
Just requested an invite.. looks promising
So, uh, let me ask.... were all of you songs um... obtained, you know, uh legally?
A huge portion of them are legal. All? Eh...
I haven't downloaded music (legal or otherwise) in a very long time, however, I am still nervous to put my collection up on one of these services.
Same here, I am looking forward to having my photos and videos taken on my phone in cloud storage, but I doubt I will put any of my music into iCloud when it starts.
Dumb question, but does this keep the memory on your phone from getting bogged down? 6k songs is a lot and probably doesn't fit right?
Kinda like a remote terabyte HD that you can access stuff from as if it was on your device?
I got an invite last thursday and still currently uploading my music. I have a total of 19488 uploading and 7152 have finished... It takes a long time. The way the app works on your phone is, it actually downloads the song to your phone so you can listen to it. It doesn't stream it to the phone. It saves the song as cache and then i believe the songs are deleted.There is an option in the settings saying cache music:temporarily store streamed music. So if you have it checked It stores it on your phone temporarily. If its unchecked it wont take up storage. I believe this is correct.
Last edited by spurs_2108; 06-28-2011 at 07:12 PM.
Sounds like the iCloud service. I wish there was streaming option as well instead of just downloading. If I wanted the songs on my phone, I'd put them on there instead of my iPod.
But I imagine Apple and Google (or really the carriers) decided that the data usage would jump through the roof.
Just saw your edit Spurs, and if that's correct, then that's a little better. It's not a big deal to just delete songs after a while, but a streaming service would be a nice option as well, although Pandora wouldn't be too fond of it.
It only keeps a cache but I believe it plays while it streams. It starts up way too fast to download the entire file before it plays. A cache is different than actually downloading it and saving it forever. In essence its doing exactly what a web browser does.
Another interesting thing is if you click on an artist, then on their cd, and play a song on the cd, it will download most, if not all of the tracks. So its not everything time you click on a song and want to hear it, that it downloads, it downloads the cd when you play a song off of it. Hope that makes sense.
I'm trying to see at what point does it delete the "temporarily" songs off my phone. I'm doing a test by playing a few cds and having most of the cd download to my phone. I saw that I had 1.92 gb left of storage on my phone and have clicked on a few cds leaving me with 1.78 gb left now. I have "cache music" selected also. I stop the song and close the program. I'm going to see how long the songs are saved on my phone. If the songs still stay on the phone I guess the only way to get rid of the songs that are saved is by unchecking "cache music"
I don't buy music on iTunes so I don't have much music to put on my phone, although my Radiohead cd pops up in my purchased music, even though I bought it off their site. I think you can download individual songs and whole CDs, but again, I have an 80 gb iPod so why would I do that. I think it's cool that Google and Apple are doing these things without having a separate app to use the service. Ultimately though, it means nothing to me.
I have a lot of music obviously. I have a 30 gb creative zen vision m. And the day that it dies I'm going to cry. I've had it for about 5 years. Its held up pretty well. So on it I have the music I listen to the most. Its nice having googles music program to have all my music with me and not just 30 gb.
Yeah - I have been carrying music on my SD card just because I do't like having to carry my Ipod classic too so I hope this works out.
The big issue I've found so far has to do with battery drainage. My battery tends to go pretty fast when using this service. I'd imagine data usage is high as well.
What phone are you using? I just got an EVO 3d and the battery is supposedly an issue already.
I'm currently using an HTC Hero. The battery is an issue on all smart phones. Normally with pretty decent usage I get a 14-16 hour day before I get down to 20% but an hour of Google Music in the morning dropped me to 20% after 6 hours of use.
iCloud works for free with the music you've purchased from iTunes. And you can place only what you want on any given device.
For music you didn't purchase through iTunes, they offer a 'iTunes match' service for $25/year that will match the music you have and basically add it as purchased from iTunes, so you can download it on every device and you don't have the upload your gazillion songs. Songs that the service cannot match are uploaded.
Yeah, I know about the match. But I don't want music on my phone, hence why I'd like a streaming option.
I just think it's weird that's not offered as an option considering a lot of people use apps like Pandora, which is 100% streaming. I guess they feel you should be able to access your music even when there's no internet connection around.
With storage and raw processing power as cheap as it is, I cannot at all understand the appeal of going back to the 1950s model of dumb terminals accessing servers to do their work and store their data. I mean if you have to do really elaborate calculations like modeling weather, a fire, or other computationally expensive processes and can't afford to buy the hardware to get the job done, I get it. But for everyday like listening to music or editing do ents?
True, my lossless collection is reaching about 200GB; I don't think flash type storage is too far off from that capacity. This service doesn't even use FLAC files and will probably work at a less than ideal bitrate much of the time and all that would still count against any limited data plan. I can see how it could appeal to some people though.
Figured this was just like dropbox.
I do believe you can upload flac files to google music.
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