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Google Debuts New Android-Focused Music Download Store

Stairway said:
....and you think that Apple doesn't? :rolleyes:
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Apple customers are smart enough to realize that Apple sells them products to make money.

Google customers seem oblivious to the fact that "free" Google services exist only to compile data on you and sell your eyeballs to advertisers and marketers.

Two completely different but completely viable business models. Nothing wrong with the way Google makes its money. Nothing wrong with the way Apple makes its money. If only Google's fans would stop with the absurd propaganda that they aren't paying for anything they get from Google. ("Google free and good! Apple not free and bad!" *Burp*) Because you are.

Oletros said:
And you call others googlebots, blinds when you only bash anything that is not Apple and even have an avatar that show how fanatic you are?
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Windows is garbage. That doesn't make me a fanatic, it makes me a realist.

Oletros said:
I suspect that people like you (Apple fanboys, Google fandroids, ms fans, etc) are paid by competition to make the brands you supposedly are fans look stupid
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Since you are here to preach the Android gospel, I must suspect that you have an insider's view on this perspective.
 
voonyx said:
The purchases just become part of your Google Music "library" available for you to stream from anywhere. I do not know if it's downloadable, although I know you can share your purchases with your Google+ friends for free (the complete song, not snippets).

I agree that Google's track record sucks unless its search engine related, with the exception of Android, but Google Music is pretty cool. The only pain in the butt is the initial uploading, but after that its cake.
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If I'm at home my music is already on my computer mac or pc via iCloud , so no need to stream using up bandwidth at home. It is also available on my Apple TV. If I am away from home its on my on my phone or accessible at anytime anywhere via iCloud. If its on my synced to my phone I don't have to stream it and risk blowing my data plan and Killing my battery.

Sharing songs with friends? OK!! This is not what it sounds like to the current music Generation. Sharing means to give away for free. That is not the case here. It is squirting like Microsoft tried with their failed music player. Only in this case you have to be on Google+ and they can only listen once for free. At least the Microsoft plan allowed them three listens for free. It still didn't work though.

Android will last as long as the hardware makers can sustain themselves. With the low profits they have now and the increasing litigation cost for using a product by a company who only respects their own IP, hardware makers will begin to look for the next safer move.
 
I used Google Music during the beta and it worked really well. (Way better than the Match Beta!)

Match is better for what I need it for, though. I am happy that Google is pushing Apple with this because hopefully Apple will focus on making Match the best it can be.
 
nehemiascr said:
duh!! It's a cloud!! how do you expect to represent a cloud in 2 2d space without making two of them look alike. for that matter, apple copied everyone in the cloud business before them.
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rmwebs said:
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...
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Not all clouds look like that. Most are round bottomed, not flat bottomed like Apple's cloud. Apple's has been like that since MobileMe and maybe .Mac. Apple was very specific about the 'formula' for this logo. Do a search for 'cloud icon' on Yahoo images or Bing images.

https://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/16/icloud-logo-infused-with-golden-ratio/
 
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They are going to have trouble with that cloud logo.
 
sterlingindigo said:
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They are going to have trouble with that cloud logo.
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as pointed out multiple times before. Apple would have trouble before Google.
Google Announced Google music with that icon with the cloud on May 10th at Google I/O.
First time we saw the iCloud icon was on June 6th which is just short of 1 month later.

So if anyone copied anyone it would of been Apple coping Google.

I suggest you learn to check little facts like that.

BHP41 said:
Ehhh... Too much time and BS involved. iTunes is easy. If you're a android user then yes. iOS, no. Simple as that.
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minus the fact that to get roughly the same service Google Music provides it will cost you $25 a year threw Apple and I do not see Apple service being that much better than Google music. Free and will work on almost any device vs $25 and limited to Apple only lock down.

Tell me what is better? Google music biggest draw back is the long time span for the first upload but it is very painless. Download the music manager, tell it to use iTunes and then let it do its thing.

LagunaSol said:
Apple customers are smart enough to realize that Apple sells them products to make money.

Google customers seem oblivious to the fact that "free" Google services exist only to compile data on you and sell your eyeballs to advertisers and marketers.

Two completely different but completely viable business models. Nothing wrong with the way Google makes its money. Nothing wrong with the way Apple makes its money. If only Google's fans would stop with the absurd propaganda that they aren't paying for anything they get from Google. ("Google free and good! Apple not free and bad!" *Burp*) Because you are.
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Minus the fact that Apple has shown that it is pretty greedy and wants as much money as possible.

Apple is going to harvest your data just as much if not more so that Google and then of course sell it for their own gains. Just the difference is Apple customers have to pay for that to happen.

Sorry but to think that Apple is not doing it is just plain stupid. Apple just as bad if not someways worse than the rest of them.
 
kas23 said:
Anyone who is a fan of a "product" with an Apple logo on it who believes they will be a better person by giving money to Apple, so they can then only have to upload about 60% of their music library.
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Google Music does support FLAC, but unfortunately doesn't support ALAC. Really sort of a dilemma for me (as I imagine for anyone else with a lot of lossless music in iTunes..

However, some things that aren't perfect with Google Music:

The Google Music product isn't really geared all too well around playlists, that I can tell. It doesn't understand Smart Playlists at all. It doesn't update my playlists when I update them. Useful iTunes tags like "Sort Artist name" also don't sync up to the Google's cloud (or the online player doesn't care about them), like it does for iTunes Match.

The web based player also is really really laggy. I don't find the experience to be very good. It constantly pukes on scrolling across long playlists and the album art lag is as bad as iTunes Match on a syncing track on iOS right now.

Lastly, no support for Google Music on iOS (not announced at their event, anyway).
 
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Wow, looks like Apple really has their work cut out for them. I wonder how easy it is to use Google + versus Facebook. I think Apple needs to ditch the FB app, it hardly ever works.
 
neko girl said:
Google Music does support FLAC, but unfortunately doesn't support ALAC. Really sort of a dilemma for me..
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You know that is what you get for using property formats. It just recently went open source. I can understand no one wanting to trust Apple with ALAC formats until recently.
 
For 25 bucks apple makes me honest, that's worth it alone to me. The addition of it being integrated into my iOS devices is icing.
 
guch20 said:
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.
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This is why it's hilarious when Apple fans complain about other companies creating lock-in.
 
Google not good enough

So, if you have ****** recordings of your music (low bitrate mp3's) you will upload the same ****** music? Unlike iTunes Match which gives you 256 bitrate songs. I'll stick with Match.
 
krzyglue said:
Why you would bring up Quark or LaTeX in a discussion about Google Apps is completely beyond me. Basically, you're saying that Google Apps as a product is garbage, proven by the fact that you don't use it for things it was never intended to do...

And whatever your opinion is does not change the fact that it is successful.
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And popularity is proof of quality when it's an Apple product.
 
Chumburro2U said:
So, if you have ****** recordings of your music (low bitrate mp3's) you will upload the same ****** music? Unlike iTunes Match which gives you 256 bitrate songs. I'll stick with Match.
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Actually. No compression, with the exception of FLAC files. They are compressed to 320kbps MP3s, as stated in the help files of google music.

However, if you stream your music with your android device over the mobile network, the stream will be compressed for lower bandwith usage. But the uploaded files remain as they are.
 
Chumburro2U said:
So, if you have ****** recordings of your music (low bitrate mp3's) you will upload the same ****** music? Unlike iTunes Match which gives you 256 bitrate songs. I'll stick with Match.
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Actually. No compression, with the exception of FLAC files. They are compressed to 320kbps MP3s, as stated in the help files of google music.

However, if you stream your music with your android device over the mobile network, the stream will be compressed for lower bandwith usage. But the uploaded files remain as they are.
 
Chumburro2U said:
So, if you have ****** recordings of your music (low bitrate mp3's) you will upload the same ****** music? Unlike iTunes Match which gives you 256 bitrate songs. I'll stick with Match.
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Actually. No compression, with the exception of FLAC files. They are compressed to 320kbps MP3s, as stated in the help files of google music.

However, if you stream your music with your android device over the mobile network, the stream will be compressed for lower bandwith usage. But the uploaded files remain as they are.
 
I've been using the beta for a month or two now and it's been pretty ****ing fantastic. Absolutely NO complaints on my end.

If I'm at home I can download (to my device) tracks that I know I will listen to later. If I REALLY need to listen to something I didn't pre-download... I can just stream it. Takes a few seconds to fire up but it caches the song you're playing and all others in the lineup/playlist.

It's quite simply a wonderful service.

I also have android installed on my touchpad and Google Music just makes the experience that much better for me :)
 
Oletros said:
Mmm, no
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Mmm, yes.

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CQd44 said:
I've been using the beta for a month or two now and it's been pretty ****ing fantastic. Absolutely NO complaints on my end.

If I'm at home I can download (to my device) tracks that I know I will listen to later. If I REALLY need to listen to something I didn't pre-download... I can just stream it. Takes a few seconds to fire up but it caches the song you're playing and all others in the lineup/playlist.

It's quite simply a wonderful service.

I also have android installed on my touchpad and Google Music just makes the experience that much better for me :)
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Or you could have that music on the device and save some internet bandwidth.
 
Is it just me or is that Ad, awfully like an Apple Ad??
Galaxy S awfully like an iPhone!
Google Music awfully like Music Match!

Whats next, 'The GooglePod', Google AirBook, iGoogle, GooglePad :rolleyes:
WTF??
 
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