Google Launches Free Scan and Match Music Service to Compete With Apple and Amazon

[Dave.UK]

Originally Posted by oplix

Does google actually come up with any of it's own ideas for products or is it copy/paste on a endless macro?

What do you propose Google has copied?

[LagunaSol]

Originally Posted by Dave.UK

What do you propose Google has copied?

Check the topic of this thread.

[Dave.UK]

Originally Posted by LagunaSol

Check the topic of this thread.

Ive read the thread title, but my question still stands, what do you propose google has copied?

[Confuzzzed]

Originally Posted by Dave.UK

Ive read the thread title, but my question still stands, what do you propose google has copied?

I don't give a **** who's copied who. Google play is simply not good enough. Yet

[Dave.UK]

Originally Posted by Confuzzzed

I don't give a **** who's copied who. Google play is simply not good enough. Yet

For you maybe.

Ive got 12,000 tracks uploaded to Google Music. All matched perfectly with artwork showing. No issues at all.

Each to their own though.

[daveathall]

Originally Posted by Dave.UK

For you maybe.

Ive got 12,000 tracks uploaded to Google Music. All matched perfectly with artwork showing. No issues at all.

Each to their own though.

Must admit that i'm of the same opinion, was streaming music this afternoon, all worked perfectly.

I also have a large amount matched with artwork showing.

[Confuzzzed]

Originally Posted by daveathall

Must admit that i'm of the same opinion, was streaming music this afternoon, all worked perfectly.

I also have a large amount matched with artwork showing.

About 50% matched and nothing special about my music collection. Mainly ripped CDs, no special formats. Of those that were matched, probably around 60% have artwork. Also UI fairly crude in my opinion.

[sebseb81]

I have Google Music Manager installed, but it doesn't appear to be doing any matching, only uploading. Any ideas how to get this working?

Thanks.

[latestmonkey]

Originally Posted by sebseb81

I have Google Music Manager installed, but it doesn't appear to be doing any matching, only uploading. Any ideas how to get this working?

Thanks.

I thought this at first as well but if you notice, the number of songs that gets "uploaded" is much faster than your upload speed. Those are the ones getting matched.

[Morshu9001]

Originally Posted by SlCKB0Y

Bandwidth is progressively getting *much* cheaper.

No! To get more bandwidth, the networks have to expand. That involves laying more fiber optics. It can only happen in bursts. Also, as more people use bandwidth, it becomes more scarce. As more people use flash storage, it's just mass-produced more.

[Renzatic]

Originally Posted by Morshu9001

No! To get more bandwidth, the networks have to expand. That involves laying more fiber optics. It can only happen in bursts. Also, as more people use bandwidth, it becomes more scarce.

It is cheaper nowadays, by quite a bit, Though the more people require it, the more the telcos need to up their game and lay more fiber.

...but that's a cost that's recouped fairly quickly.

[SlCKB0Y]

Originally Posted by Morshu9001

No! To get more bandwidth, the networks have to expand. That involves laying more fiber optics. It can only happen in bursts. Also, as more people use bandwidth, it becomes more scarce. As more people use flash storage, it's just mass-produced more.

We aren't even nearly using the full capacity on the major intercontinental fibre links that already exist and fibre technology is becoming cheaper and cheaper. I've got a map of the worlds major links somewhere (unfortunately I can't find it right now) and it shows that only somewhere between 1/3 - 1/2 of the physical fibres in these links have been provisioned (i.e "lit").

When the telcos lay fibre they typically massively over-deploy and most of the costs aren't for the fibre itself, but for getting it in the ground/under the ocean.

I work in the webhosting industry and I know for a fact that bandwidth prices have dramatically decreased in the last few years. The price we pay per Mbit is about 1/5 what it was 5 years ago.

This price decrease is partly offset by the greater bandwidth requirements due to things like smartphones etc and the bandwidth requirements of streaming video.

What has increased recently (at least in my area of the world), is colocation costs in datacentres.

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Originally Posted by Renzatic

It is cheaper nowadays, by quite a bit

^ This.

[Morshu9001]

Originally Posted by Renzatic

It is cheaper nowadays, by quite a bit, Though the more people require it, the more the telcos need to up their game and lay more fiber.

...but that's a cost that's recouped fairly quickly.

It is cheaper, but storage is getting cheaper extremely quickly.