Then don't sync all of it.
Or, you know, I could keep doing what I have been doing as that has been working out for me.
But thanks!
Then don't sync all of it.
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.
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?
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.
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 bought on Google Music with someone else on Google Music but they can only listen once.
Windows is garbage. That doesn't make me a fanatic, it makes me a realist.
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.
Ubuntu > Windows7 > Lion
WP7.5 > iOS >>> Android
I use all six of these regularly. Do you?
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.
Ubuntu > Windows7 > Lion
WP7.5 > iOS >>> Android
I use all six of these regularly. Do you?
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.