I just got the invite today and gave it a whirl. Anyone else? I've noticed already that I may not use it as much as someone with, say, a Dinc, mainly because of the extra 32gb that the T-Bolt comes with. I wouldn't really want to oversaturate my music experience with lots of superfluous music that I play once in a blue moon and probably won't enjoy in the first place. So why put it in the cloud when I can keep it on my phone directly? My music is backed up on my computer and a spare hard drive anyways.
The program itself is okay. It seems slick on my computer.But since it is web-based, you can't do things that I'm used to from iTunes, like right-clicking and deleting something right away. There's a little arrow to the right of every song/album that let's you do it, but I don't know if I'll get used to it.
None of the songs that I uploaded to Google Music is showing on the Google Music Player App, though. So that's rendered it useless thus far. And the app is okay, better than the Amazon MP3 app. But at least I could play cloud songs on the Amazon one.
The music seems to upload pretty quickly, but the actual "Music Manager" program that you use to upload is junk. It needs work. They give you the option to upload from iTunes, from "My Music" or from specific folders. And from Windows Media Player, for the three of you out there that use it. But if you want specific songs only, you can't really do it. If you choose "My Music" it just scans the whole folder and goes to town. You can choose specific folders but that will take forever if you want to pick and choose, and again it's worthless if you just want a few songs here and there. I for one have a lot of songs that aren't part of albums, and I don't want to toss them into their own individual folders just to get them on Beta.
Wow I didn't realize I'd write this much. I guess this turned into a review of sorts. Well I guess my point is, between the 32gb memory card, Power Amp, and Pandora, I really don't see myself needing Google Music at all. They'll need to find a reason for me to want to use it for awhile. Any other T-Bolt users try it yet?
The program itself is okay. It seems slick on my computer.But since it is web-based, you can't do things that I'm used to from iTunes, like right-clicking and deleting something right away. There's a little arrow to the right of every song/album that let's you do it, but I don't know if I'll get used to it.
None of the songs that I uploaded to Google Music is showing on the Google Music Player App, though. So that's rendered it useless thus far. And the app is okay, better than the Amazon MP3 app. But at least I could play cloud songs on the Amazon one.
The music seems to upload pretty quickly, but the actual "Music Manager" program that you use to upload is junk. It needs work. They give you the option to upload from iTunes, from "My Music" or from specific folders. And from Windows Media Player, for the three of you out there that use it. But if you want specific songs only, you can't really do it. If you choose "My Music" it just scans the whole folder and goes to town. You can choose specific folders but that will take forever if you want to pick and choose, and again it's worthless if you just want a few songs here and there. I for one have a lot of songs that aren't part of albums, and I don't want to toss them into their own individual folders just to get them on Beta.
Wow I didn't realize I'd write this much. I guess this turned into a review of sorts. Well I guess my point is, between the 32gb memory card, Power Amp, and Pandora, I really don't see myself needing Google Music at all. They'll need to find a reason for me to want to use it for awhile. Any other T-Bolt users try it yet?
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