Google Music is Live!

[DevTin23]

Has anyone thought that the player for this was kinda laggy?

sent for my fantastic thunderbolt.

 

[DenverRalphy]

The invite is to get the service before it opens to the public. Since it's still in Beta it will only be released to a specified number of people, who in turn may be given invites to hand out. Almost all of Google's products are like this - including Gmail

Yup. In my experience, any beta services Google puts out there works like this. Usually by the time it's no longer in beta, anybody who's been looking to get the service has already got it.

 

[DenverRalphy]

So were basically "bug testing" it before the public gets it? Sorry for my newbieness...I never have gotten this invite stuff:-\

In a nutshell, yep, that's what you're doing when you get into a beta.

It's also used to control the initial load of traffic, so they don't have millions of people all trying to upload all their mp3s at the same time. They'll send out invites in batches over time.

 

[pnguyenc]

So being a xoom user I was able to get access to the beta, and from the initial hands on, the apps seems to work very well, the only drawback currently is that it does take some time to upload (currently at 975 of 9000 songs), but playback is great. I've already replaced my Ipod that I use in my car with my droid x.

 

[renegademoose]

So being a xoom user I was able to get access to the beta, and from the initial hands on, the apps seems to work very well, the only drawback currently is that it does take some time to upload (currently at 975 of 9000 songs), but playback is great. I've already replaced my Ipod that I use in my car with my droid x.

With BeyondPod and this I would be able to get rid of my iPod as well... I hope I get into the beta even though I am a new Droid owner. I just hope AllTel/Verizon doesn't add a data usage limit then.

 

[jimbl]

Has anyone thought that the player for this was kinda laggy?

sent for my fantastic thunderbolt.

I thought the same thing. Seemed to smooth out after a bit. Haven't used it yet today, so we'll see.

 

[jimbl]

So being a xoom user I was able to get access to the beta, and from the initial hands on, the apps seems to work very well, the only drawback currently is that it does take some time to upload (currently at 975 of 9000 songs), but playback is great. I've already replaced my Ipod that I use in my car with my droid x.

Lucky! Gosh! So, do you have any beta invites to give out?

 

[Starfleet Captain]

I got my invite today as well! I, too am a Xoom user. But, they sent my invite to my secondary gmail account! I don't understand this because I never requested an invite from that account. I do, have my Xoom and Evo linked to the secondary account set only to sync email. My primary account is used for both devices for email, calendar, voice and all. I requested an invite from my primary account and have yet to receive it.

Needless to say, I accepted the invite and have started uploading music. At the time of this writing, its got 130 songs uploaded and going. I've already started playing with it on my Xoom, and so far so good. I have not tried it on my Evo just yet, but will report back once I do.

Now, all thats left is for my Xoom to get the 3.1 update... still waiting!

 

[Bush985]

Got my invite and uploading now. The application appears to be working well. Can't wait to use this more.

 

[Verdes8891]

Just requested my invite. Cant wait to try it out.

Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk

 

[ROCKHARDjm]

I got my invite today as well! I, too am a Xoom user. But, they sent my invite to my secondary gmail account! I don't understand this because I never requested an invite from that account. I do, have my Xoom and Evo linked to the secondary account set only to sync email. My primary account is used for both devices for email, calendar, voice and all. I requested an invite from my primary account and have yet to receive it.

Needless to say, I accepted the invite and have started uploading music. At the time of this writing, its got 130 songs uploaded and going. I've already started playing with it on my Xoom, and so far so good. I have not tried it on my Evo just yet, but will report back once I do.

Now, all thats left is for my Xoom to get the 3.1 update... still waiting!

Same thing happened to me, they actually sent the invite to 2 of my other emails. I ended up using it with one of my accounts and it seems to be working really well.

My only complaint is, that it seems to takes a while to upload songs. i've got around 14,000 tracks, and about 18 hours later I'm only about 800 tracks in.

I'm loving the fact that it's importing my itunes playlists, and playcounts and just about any other info I have tagged to my music. I'm pretty much a stickler when it comes to keeping my music organized in itunes and I'm extremely pleased that it works well with this.

 

[jimbl]

Anyone with a phone (rather than a Xoom, etc) get an invite yet?

 

[Johnly]

...ish.

http://music.google.com/music/

Signed up, currently waiting for my invite. Who's checking this out?

I tell ya, this is one of many reasons I am hooked on google!

 

[Starfleet Captain]

Same thing happened to me, they actually sent the invite to 2 of my other emails. I ended up using it with one of my accounts and it seems to be working really well.

My only complaint is, that it seems to takes a while to upload songs. i've got around 14,000 tracks, and about 18 hours later I'm only about 800 tracks in.

I'm loving the fact that it's importing my itunes playlists, and playcounts and just about any other info I have tagged to my music. I'm pretty much a stickler when it comes to keeping my music organized in itunes and I'm extremely pleased that it works well with this.

My uploads were slow, but not painfully slow. I am VERY particular about the songs I chose to keep in my collection, and therefore, my 700 song collection is 9 years in the making! It averaged about 5-10 seconds per upload, and took about 3 hours (because my wifi connection kept getting lost, at which point it took a while to re-establish a connection to upload the songs)

 

[thesconix]

Anyone have invites to hand out?

 

[STL 314]

Anyone have invites to hand out?

just the xoom people so far

 

[srkmagnus]

all the comments so far are making me anxious and ready to receive my invite.

 

[Starfleet Captain]

all the comments so far are making me anxious and ready to receive my invite.

I'm not sure but it seems like they're giving priority invites to the Xoom users. I still say its odd seeing to it that I did not activate my xoom on the gmail account that received the invite, though I do have it set to sync email with it as well as my primary acc.

 

[ValerieAnne]

Just requested my invite.

 

[jimbl]

This closed Beta stuff sucks. It took about a year from the time they first announced google music for this Beta to start. Will the Beta last that long? Any day now I'm ready to pull the trigger on the Amazon cloud service. I'm sure I'm not the only one. I wonder how many customers google will be losing by dragging their feet?

But, at least I have Netflix on my Incredible, and so far it works really well!