Google Music
 

First Pandora, then Spotify, now Google Music. Things are moving too fast!

Oh well, I'm in the process of uploading over 1000 songs into my Google Music account. Google might as well run all phases of my life now.

More of the drug dealer mentality

Music Beta is available free for a limited time.



Get um hooked, and get their credit cards.

Gives me a headache keeping track of all the new services. I think that's why iCloud may be a breath of fresh air, keeping my music in the cloud for easy access anywhere I go. At least that's the idea...

That is no different that what Google Music does

All Your Music are Belong to Us. :D

might be trouble
 

iClouds syncing and not STREAMING behaviour might prove to be annoying though, still undecided. I definitely think some sort of streaming solution needs to be enabled.

Doesn't Google Music stream to Android devices?

Hopefully soon to iPhones.

If I move to a non-apple device, what do I do with all the music I bought from Itunes; can I get it to google/android/the rest of the world? tls

Oh look, a new and innovative product from the Google chocolate factory. It must be new and innovative because Google made it. Oh, hang on a minute, they're just trying to muscle into another market by copying someone else's product again........

What are they copying? I've used a lot of music sync/stream services, but none have a dedicated Honeycomb app, on-demand playlist generation and a decent web based player.

I find that is *IS* highly innovative, and that there isn't anything similar on the market.

True, but unless Google can get their act together with the music industry, isn't the usefulness of such an app going to be limited?

Perspectives are an interesting thing. I should think it is the job of the music industry to get their act together, or effectively re-invent their business, to better work with the plans of the likes of Google.

How does this app require interaction with the music industry? You're not buying music from Google, are you?

I don't have access to it yet, and stand to be corrected, as always. :)

Indeed. I'm not so sure the music industry will be happy with people copying their music to Google's cloud though.....

There's lots the music industry should be doing from the perspective of Me the consumer. For example, I'd like my personal license for a tune to cover me for copying and playing from a variety of devices I own. I don't see this happening anytime soon though. Apple's model works very well but is proprietary.