This just went public yesterday but still beta, I tried using it on my iPod Touch very glitchy and a lot of the music stops playing. There is still a lot of work and another thing I noticed it found most of the Album Artwork that could never be found on iTunes. This might hurt iTunes Match or iCloud. Lets see where this leads and how much of this Google will make iOS compatible. The key win here is it is FREE to upload 20,000 music where iTunes match you have to pay for a year. Lets see how long this will be for.
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But iTunes doesn't support FLAC, so that isn't an option when I rip my music. I'm not saying that's a good thing or bad thing, but it is the reality. My FLAC music is limited to the "HD" stuff I've bought on line and then convereted to Apple Lossless. So, when I tried Google Music a few months back, I found it to be mostly useless in my case. Your milage may vary.
Priceless.
Yet another ad-vehicle for Google.
Given how much cloning of iTunes is going on here, it might only be a matter of time before Apple legal starts drafting up a few things.
Something about that logo...
Why can't they make a different looking cloud, clouds come in all shapes, they just copied Apple...
Why can't they make a different looking cloud, clouds come in all shapes, they just copied Apple...
Priceless.
Yet another ad-vehicle for Google.
Given how much cloning of iTunes is going on here, it might only be a matter of time before Apple legal starts drafting up a few things.
What cloning. Please explain. Or are your just mouthing off?
Were you uploading with a dial-up connection? I uploaded about 15,000 songs in 3 days.
What this offering does for independent artists is amazing. Seriously impressed with the announcement (and that it'll remain free to host my library).
Nevermind....seems that you need to allow 3rd party cookies to be set in Chrome.
Or at least allow exceptions to market.android.com, checkout.google.com, and accounts.google.com.
-Kevin
No it doesn't....its just using a typical cloud style icon, the same as every single online cloud service for the last 15+ years...
The internet has been represented as a cloud for how long now? I have been using a cloud for at least a decade.
Agreed. Amazon does seem like a much better experience.
Oh well....I have no interest other than getting some deals on music. I'll be downloading everything and using iTunes Match.
-Kevin
Free matching might raise an issue but otherwise they are just streaming "your" files.
Pink∆Floyd;13871661 said:
you might want to check your fact. It is more of an Apple copy Google Music icon. So why couldn't Apple come up with its own?
iCloud announced June 6th.
Google Music first announced (and used that same icon) in May 10. Nearly a full month before Apple's iCloud announcement with its icon.
So tell me who copied who?
haha no its' cable. to be fair i didnt have my computer on the whole three days. the point was its slow to upload a song.
Their internet offerings have always been a hell of a lot better than Apple's, thats for sure. Hard to deny that even if you are the biggest of Apple fans.
Apple's notable online services:
iDisk - Slow, next to useless outside North America.
MobileMe - huge failure for the first 6 months of its life, quickly removed from service.
iCloud - Hopefully a lot better, still very slow outside North America.
iTunes Store(s) - undoubtably their most successful, cant say anything bad about it.
Google's notable online services:
GMail - The most successul webmail service, ever. Reliable and fast.
YouTube - The largest and most popular online video service
Google Docs - The most successful online document editor/collab suite
Google Enterprise - Overtook Microsofts online enterprise offerings some time ago, not even taking the Google search appliance into consideration.
Android - not a web service, but clearly highly successful in its own right.
You get the picture.
Oh! I see, didn't realize you were using ALAC. iTunes actually can play FLAC with a Quicktime component installed. I've been using FLAC with iTunes for years, I forgot it wasn't native.
I've seen a comment like this on at least 4 different techie news sites today. Must be the latest troll talking-point marching orders.
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When did you do it.
I was able to upload my entire 35ish gig library in little more than a week of uploading mostly over night or while no one was home as it was great a killing the network. Mind you it was on the slower end of speed for me due to the fact that it was well a little more than a week after the announcement when I got my invite in.
I did hear from my friends that I send invites to that upload speeds were not that bad but they were after the insane spike. I expect it the uploading to be a crawl for a little while now as they just fully opened the flood gates.
People complaining about the upload my answer to that is REALLY? It it a one time deal and after that it is not that bad as you should never again have to upload your entire library to Google's serves. It will be an album here and there that is not that bad. I have my Google music app on my computer set to watch iTunes meta data so if I add a new song to iTunes it gets uploaded to Google music and all my playlist are kept in sync.
Application is awful
Their Music Manager application is awful. Basically forces you to upload. Have to give it an empty folder to get it to come back. It's a pref pane WTF?
All I wanted to do is download some music.
Back to Amazon and iTunes for me!
-Kevin
Their Music Manager application is awful. Basically forces you to upload. Have to give it an empty folder to get it to come back. It's a pref pane WTF?
All I wanted to do is download some music.
Back to Amazon and iTunes for me!
-Kevin
The network killing while uploading was a big turn off. I just put off letting it run overnight for far too long. I know you can throttle the speeds but it was just too slow when you did. I never experienced any issues where "Maximum possible" was not the full potential upstream bandwidth of my connection.
I was signed up for the beta the day it was opened, and did the uploading over the next three days. Could just have been everyone uploading at the same time. Haven't uploaded anything since so maybe its faster now, not sure. I agree that even though the initial uploading could take long, its completely worth it.