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.

Copyright laws say you're allowed to make a backup, right? (Despite the slimy music industry's past $100,000 fine per song, per incidence former legal threats against such laws?

Well that comes under the heading of which copyright law and where...... Here in the UK, for example, I don't think it's strictly legal to create a backup copy of installation medium or original music CDs anymore (though everyone knows that pretty much everyone copies their CDs to iTunes (or equivalent) and then copies onto iPod (or equivalent) these days. And for anything protected by encryption, we now have legal provisions similar to DMCA (i.e. it is illegal to try and circumvent a copy protection mechanism, regardless of how poor that mechanism is).

One of the reasons I still have a soft spot for the CD is that there's no copy protection and therefore no technical limits on how I, as a consumer can use the content.

Google is too big to launch this without knowing for sure that they'll be able to keep it going. Sooner or later, Google will have a music store, and I doubt the music industry will want to throw away all that extra income.

Right you are. And next will be Google Films.

What do you call a trillion terabytes of storage?

anything you want. you own it and there's no copy protection.

Decent service that's better than Amazon's streaming at the moment. For obvious reasons being able to interact better with other Google services would be nice but I'm sure the Record Label geniuses would crap their remaining brains out if that happened

Except for all of the music you bought on iTunes when there was copy protection :rolleyes:

you can upgrade it to the non-copyprotected version, which is also a higher quality too.

At an additional cost.

I've been an Apple guy since the Apple IIc, though I don't purchase any music from iTunes. I use Amazon's MP3 store for popular artists, or purchase from the artists or independent record labels own MP3 stores for stuff not on Amazon.