I agree...though there is Amazon and most of their songs are $.99...I don't know their sales numbers, but I do know that I haven't gotten any music from iTunes in years.
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I agree...though there is Amazon and most of their songs are $.99...I don't know their sales numbers, but I do know that I haven't gotten any music from iTunes in years.
I'm not a Googlebot but I will gladly vote you down because you are... well you know.
i have a majority of Googles Official Apps downloaded on my iphone and use most on a regular basis. I would definately use a Google Music app if available. This is so far the only "Google vs. Apple" service that I actually enjoy. 
Well this is a gray area in my opinion. Google is just storing and streaming files. They just happen to be music files...
Do not quote me on this but it would be like streaming from Amazon or Dropbox.
I would buy from Amazon, but I do like the convinences that iCloud brings.
I should not have to pay more than 99 cents for a 3minute piece of music.
I love the attitude of some that this is the greatest technology leap ever. Google is the last of the big three (Google, Apple, Amazon) to officially launch their cloud music service, and is ten years behind Apple in selling digital music. It's too late for many to care.
Their major advantage is that it's free. But my own thought on it is that if I can save a week of uploading by having iTunes Match scan and match my hundreds of GB of songs, I'll gladly pay the $25 bucks per year -- seriously, that's seven cents a day; stop acting like it's breaking the bank.
Add to that the fact that my hundreds of old iTunes songs (the kind with DRM still attached) won't work with Google, and I'll be happy to stick with where I'm at and with what I know works.
Plus, I won't have Apple going through my music to find out what my tastes are to better sell me to targeted advertisers.
Their major advantage is that it's free. But my own thought on it is that if I can save a week of uploading by having iTunes Match scan and match my hundreds of GB of songs, I'll gladly pay the $25 bucks per year -- seriously, that's seven cents a day; stop acting like it's breaking the bank.
Add to that the fact that my hundreds of old iTunes songs (the kind with DRM still attached) won't work with Google, and I'll be happy to stick with where I'm at and with what I know works.
Plus, I won't have Apple going through my music to find out what my tastes are to better sell me to targeted advertisers.
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Google is free...but your missing the point of Match
Google Music = Upload your old, crappy 96k-128k MP3 and get back the same.
iTunes Match = Match your old, crappy 96k-128k MP3s and get back DRM FREE 256k AAC, which once downloaded is YOURS TO KEEP.
Up to 25,000 songs for $25 = .01c per song for the upgrade. If you don't pay the second year then you don't get the match service again but you keep your songs. Get it???
Google Music = Upload your old, crappy 96k-128k MP3 and get back the same.
iTunes Match = Match your old, crappy 96k-128k MP3s and get back DRM FREE 256k AAC, which once downloaded is YOURS TO KEEP.
Up to 25,000 songs for $25 = .01c per song for the upgrade. If you don't pay the second year then you don't get the match service again but you keep your songs. Get it???
The desktop version for the web requires flash. The iOS version doesn't when using Safari.
Too bad iTunes match fails to match a lot of my songs, even though these songs are available in the iTunes store and tagged correctly.
Can you test a match before you pay? I keep getting an error that the store is down whenever I click on Match though.
and that's where you lost credibility.
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I have hundreds of GB of songs; had no problem matching anything, even songs ripped from CDs.
thx to your GEMA arschlöcher ...
glad i know americans that let me use their US Credit Cards to sign up for those services
Mmm, no
Hundreds? I expect ripped at a lot more than 256kbps or a lot of gigabytes bought in iTunes. If not, you're the one losing credibility
So I'm wondering who this is going to appeal to?
The music store just seems too little, too late. It hasn't got the selection of iTunes and Google decides to release a music store literally a DECADE after Apple unleashed its market-dominating music store.
Most people buy their music from iTunes. That's a fact. It's become the place for the common person to download music (legally). The fact that all of your purchased music, movies, and TV shows can be downloaded to any i-device and any computer at any time is gravy, and the interface can be figured out by anybody. It's built right in--there's nothing new to learn.
If you're more involved in the tech behind your music, you can buy iTunes Match for seven whole pennies per day, and it works through the same iTunes that the average consumer has been using for ten freaking years. Why would the average consumer care to move to move their library to another company and learn a new interface and a new way to redownload load songs?
Add to that the fact that browser-based music stores haven't met with much success (if you have no Internet, or it goes out, or you're traveling, you can't download new songs on your computer or Wifi-only devices), and it leaves a lot open to question.
Now think, not as a tech "insider," but as an average, Joe Six Pack, "can't name the three branches of US government" consumer (aka, the largest consumer group out there), who just wants something cool, easy to use, and familiar, why should I care about Google Music?
The music store just seems too little, too late. It hasn't got the selection of iTunes and Google decides to release a music store literally a DECADE after Apple unleashed its market-dominating music store.
Most people buy their music from iTunes. That's a fact. It's become the place for the common person to download music (legally). The fact that all of your purchased music, movies, and TV shows can be downloaded to any i-device and any computer at any time is gravy, and the interface can be figured out by anybody. It's built right in--there's nothing new to learn.
If you're more involved in the tech behind your music, you can buy iTunes Match for seven whole pennies per day, and it works through the same iTunes that the average consumer has been using for ten freaking years. Why would the average consumer care to move to move their library to another company and learn a new interface and a new way to redownload load songs?
Add to that the fact that browser-based music stores haven't met with much success (if you have no Internet, or it goes out, or you're traveling, you can't download new songs on your computer or Wifi-only devices), and it leaves a lot open to question.
Now think, not as a tech "insider," but as an average, Joe Six Pack, "can't name the three branches of US government" consumer (aka, the largest consumer group out there), who just wants something cool, easy to use, and familiar, why should I care about Google Music?
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Mmm, yes. I love how your argument is just that. You sure put me in my place.
And yeah, most through iTunes, a good amount from CDs, and a decent amount acquired...in other ways.
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I am really trying to figure out if there are any negatives to Google doing the cloud music thing now. FOR FREE! Who cares about the 320 mp3s...its FREE! No ads? What? and who cares if you have to upload your music, its FREE! Oh well locked into iTunes Match already..haha
Sorry Apple, Google trumped you on this.
Sorry Apple, Google trumped you on this.
It opened January 9, 2001. But thanks for playing.
http://web.archive.org/web/200101240835/http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/jan/09itunes.html
And if you listen carefully, you can hear your own credibility wheezing its last breath.
it could of been your setting on the music manager app, I up 8,908 songs in less of a day, and it got all the album cover right and all my music is avalable to me were ever i go, now if they can do that with my movie all be happy.
Yap, at least you can read the link you post, is embarrassing when someone owns himself in that way
The iTunes STORE opened in April 2.003
And if you listen carefully, you can hear your own credibility wheezing its last breath.
Why do you kids have to be so mean to each other ?
Having competing music services can only be good for the end user. It doesn't matter where you get it as long as you're happy.
Mellow out people.
note this is from a person that doesnt care for google very much.
Having competing music services can only be good for the end user. It doesn't matter where you get it as long as you're happy.
Mellow out people.
note this is from a person that doesnt care for google very much.
anti-competitive fanboys
Apple didn't:
Make the first mp3 player, have the first online music store, offer the first cloud service or make the first tablet PC. They have innovated other products, so why can't other companies do it without being labeled thieves of an Apple idea?!
Stop accusing every company of copying Apple whenever there is new competition.
Same here
Very innovative concept by Google.
Apple didn't:
Make the first mp3 player, have the first online music store, offer the first cloud service or make the first tablet PC. They have innovated other products, so why can't other companies do it without being labeled thieves of an Apple idea?!
Stop accusing every company of copying Apple whenever there is new competition.