Cloud Music Player or 16GB SD Card

[Kahroo]

When I go out I love to listen to music. So Should I get a 16 GB SD Card to fill that with my 8GB and growing music library, or get into this cloud stuff and upload all my music onto that and play it from there?

And If so what cloud service should I use. Is Google's new service any good?

 

[koopakid08]

Depends on if you are always connected or not. I would say just go with the SD card just to be safe.


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[Kahroo]

I am always connected to the internet on my phone

 

[Ticojpunk]

I use google music beta, and its awesome. There is no longer any need to pick and choose which music I want to listen to. It's all there any time i need it, all 10,000+ songs.

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[Kahroo]

I use google music beta, and its awesome. There is no longer any need to pick and choose which music I want to listen to. It's all there any time i need it, all 10,000+ songs.

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Can I get a invite then? Xetrox4@Gmail.com

 

[bswann]

Can I get a invite then? Xetrox4@Gmail.com

I just sent you an invite.

 

[Kahroo]

I just sent you an invite.

Why thank you my good sir. I am uploading music to it. But I must say it is very good so far. I have experienced it looping when I say shuffle sometimes. But it's still good. And will save me $30 instead of buying a 16GB SD card.

I also here I will have to pay for this. Anyone know how much?

 

[michikade#AC]

The biggest pro-sd argument i can think of is battery life. Cloud will, of course, use more battery as it is streaming. You can, theoretically, turn off all radios and still listen to music via sd. (not that anyone does that, but I digress)

If you have strong signal and a full battery, the cloud is fantastic. If you don't have a strong signal, prepare for buffering and battery drainage.

(why yes, I have music in the Amazon cloud that I stream. I also have a good 2.5 gigs of music locally for when I don't have decent signal)

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[vee]

Personally SD card will always be above cloud. Battery life alone tilts it in my favor.

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[zires]

In my experience Amazon had less stutter over 3g than Google did but over wifi it doesn't matter. As far as storage goes, if you buy music Amazon is better because you store the music for free on their servers.

I have a class 2 16gb micro sdhc card on my optimus v and they can be had for $20 online.

 

[vee]

In my experience Amazon had less stutter over 3g than Google did but over wifi it doesn't matter. As far as storage goes, if you buy music Amazon is better because you store the music for free on their servers.

I have a class 2 16gb micro sdhc card on my optimus v and they can be had for $20 online.

Class 2 online for that price are shady. I've bought 3 for that price, all broke in less than a month. You got lucky sir.

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[Ticojpunk]

I love Google Music Beta for the same reason I love(d) my 160GB iPod classic. I simply hate picking and choosing what music I want on my device. It's tedious, and I never have everything I'm going to want at any given moment. I love thinking of a song or having someone else mention a song, and chances are very good that I've got it, and got it on me right at that moment.

It's rare that I have stuttering or problems with playback, though when I do hit a deadzone, I sometimes need to wait a few minutes to get back in a signal area. If you live in a place where you frequently have 1x instead of 3G, then don't bother, 1x can't handle it. I believe Google streams your songs at the actual bitrate, so if you have high quality MP3s, expect to use a lot of bandwidth streaming. The up side is it sounds very good (better than Pandora, but not as good as an actual CD obviously).

 

[Kahroo]

In my town I have full bars and only ever get 1X if the weather is REALLY crappy out. So yeah it's fine. I am loving Google Beta ATM. Though uploading my songs is taking forever!

 

[Ticojpunk]

In my town I have full bars and only ever get 1X if the weather is REALLY crappy out. So yeah it's fine. I am loving Google Beta ATM. Though uploading my songs is taking forever!

My initial upload took a couple days. I have a little over 10,000 songs. But once it's over, you're good. I have my Google upload manager on my Mac set to automatically upload new songs. So if I ever add anything to iTunes, it pushes it up right away.

I do wish Google was linked up to Amazon MP3 or iTunes though, so when you bought music it could automatically be added, OR that Google could start a music store too. But I understand this cloud stuff is new and there is too much competition at the moment for any of that nice-play to be happening.

The repeating song bug on Google Music is a pain in the arse, but it's a known bug, and I'm sure they'll get around to addressing it soon enough. As long as it's in "Beta" they will get away with leaving stuff like that unfixed.

No idea if they'll ever charge for this. God I hope not, because I'm so not into paying any extra monthly or yearly fees for anything. I'll drop 'em like a hot potato if they do, and just get a 32GB card. lol.

 

[zires]

@vee,

I'm not talking about knock off brands here. Kingston.

 

[Chocu1a]

Check newegg prices. I recently got a Sandisk class 4 16gb card for $16.99.

 

[zires]

Got a link?

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[mknollman123]

With Google music beta you can get the best of both worlds - access from the cloud and then local music integrated as well with their pinning function. I us that for playlists that I listen to often.

My FAVORITE thing about the service is the quick list function where you pick one song and tell Google to make a list out of it. It then searches thru your library and builds a 25 song playlist of similar music - it is sweet.

 

[Ticojpunk]

My FAVORITE thing about the service is the quick list function where you pick one song and tell Google to make a list out of it. It then searches thru your library and builds a 25 song playlist of similar music - it is sweet.

Same here. I find it far superior to Apple's Genius Mix as well. It always does a better job putting together a mix.



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