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Upload All My Music?

So Google wants everyone who purchases music from Apple to upload it to their servers so you can switch to Google Music.

It doesn't sound legal. I can understand if I purchased music from Apple that they would store it but transferring Apple music to Google?

Then everyone sharing their songs with each other. Sounds like we are headed back down the Napster path.
 
So Google wants everyone who purchases music from Apple to upload it to their servers so you can switch to Google Music.

It doesn't sound legal. I can understand if I purchased music from Apple that they would store it but transferring Apple music to Google?

Then everyone sharing their songs with each other. Sounds like we are headed back down the Napster path.

Wow, really?

On Napster you don't pay for music, you download it and it is shared straight off of your system.

With this you BUY music from apple and upload it to Google so that you can access it from anywhere. You aren't sharing it free with other people. It is no different than burning a cd or putting it on a massive hard drive. This just gives you access to your music anywhere there is internet.
 
Two things I read on Google site.

1 - authorization is limited to 10 devices.
2 - Google music purchases do not count towards the 20K
 
Wow, really?

On Napster you don't pay for music, you download it and it is shared straight off of your system.

With this you BUY music from apple and upload it to Google so that you can access it from anywhere. You aren't sharing it free with other people. It is no different than burning a cd or putting it on a massive hard drive. This just gives you access to your music anywhere there is internet.

In the Google Music video at the 1 minute mark, you see a Share option on the menu. Looks like you can listen to the shared song once for free after pausing the video. I still think the sharing of music through the social network (Google+ and FB) will eventually bring about some problems.
 
In the Google Music video at the 1 minute mark, you see a Share option on the menu. Looks like you can listen to the shared song once for free after pausing the video. I still think the sharing of music through the social network (Google+ and FB) will eventually bring about some problems.

You can only "share" music bought in Google Store
 
Exactly as legal than buying music at Amazon MP3 store and uploading to Apple servers via iTunes Match, no?

And what sharing?

You can share a song with someone else on Google Music but they can only listen once. I guess I always thought that the uploading of music was for my CD's because I have only used iTunes, but yes I guess the same applies if you buy from Amazon and upload to Apple.
 
The logo looks awfully close to Apple's iCloud sans the headphones. I sure hope they don't sue Google over this. That would cross the line, IMO.

You mean the logo Apple themselves was found to have copied, if i remember it correctly that is...

People need to take a chill pill when it comes to visual representations of earthly metaphors such as "the cloud". Of course they are going to look similar, that is the point. In fact, the more similar the better the que.

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Ubuntu > Windows7 > Lion

WP7.5 > iOS >>> Android

I use all six of these regularly. Do you?

I somewhat disagree with you on the first point. I'd say that Win 7 > SL, but that Lion is more equal. Of course, this is from a purely subjective stand point. That said, people talking smack about Windows are generally fools. If not, they are oft-times geeks beyond repair ;- )

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20,000 songs @ 5MB per song... you're looking ay uploading 80GB of data. Yeah, good luck with that. That'll take me like a month. Also, the nice thing about iTunes match is that it 'cleans up' all the songs you don't have proper metadata for, names, album art, etc and takes care of all the organization. For me, that's a huge plus.

There is software that can do the Meta-clean up for you. Assuming you have your files in order that is. And, as for you having 20k songs - most dont.
 
Why?

Personally I think the service is pretty good even if the web-based app needs a little work. Not sure about how popular buying music will be with Google - but I can't really predict there.

What I do know is that people love free. People love to access their music anywhere and everywhere and not everyone has an iDevice to use iCloud/iTunes Match. And there are millions of people who use gmail/other services already.

So what are your reasons that you think it will flop. Honestly.

I meant with PC / Mac desktop or laptop users. iTunes (now with iTunes Match) is already established and dominating in that area. I'd imagine all the people who have purchased content from iTunes are loyal. And even if you have an existing gmail or Google+, Google Music is not an offline media player and music manager; iTunes is. I think a lot of people will stick with iTunes for the convenience and integration.

But I do think Google Music will be a huge success with Android users. That post I wrote doesn't really apply here. I think I was sleep-deprived. I wrote that post with the impression that Google Music was a direct competitor to iTunes, which it isn't.

Swag.
 
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