Google Music is Live!

[jimbl]

@ Onix... Dont feel alone, I'm in the same boat... Signed up and waiting, not so patiently! This is killing me! I'm sitting waiting for an email hoping to be allowed to sign up......

Even worse for me is I've been holding out on buying an MP3 album from Amazon for a free year of 20GB in hopes that I would like Google Music. Not sure how much longer I can wait.

 

[ottscay]

To you guys still waiting; I'm sure it can't come too soon, but based on past beta rollouts I'd expect everyone who signed up to get an invite before the beta period is over, so it shouldn't be too long. I imagine they are sending out progressively larger batches of invites, waiting to make sure the infrastructure scales, and after any minor revisions send out another round.

 

[Tarpit_Carnivore]

Used this for about 5 minutes and already dislike it. I found this in the help page: "Currently, we do not support selecting a specific playlist, artist, or track to upload."

For me this is a major problem as my library is over 600 artists with some artists have 2-3 full albums (almost 17K songs). I wanted to try and use this an extension of my internal storage but it looks like, for right now, they will only do full library syncs. I know I can manually make a different folder with what I want in there but that is a bit counter-intuitive to this whole thing. I should be able to freely add and remove selected artists as I see fit.

I already use Subsonic, I just wanted to try this out to see how it would compare.

 

[zhelf]

i signed up right after the announcement and just recieved my beta invite today! have not tried it yet as i am work and will be a work until later but i am happy!

 

[ottscay]

Used this for about 5 minutes and already dislike it. I found this in the help page: "Currently, we do not support selecting a specific playlist, artist, or track to upload."

For me this is a major problem as my library is over 600 artists with some artists have 2-3 full albums (almost 17K songs). I wanted to try and use this an extension of my internal storage but it looks like, for right now, they will only do full library syncs. I know I can manually make a different folder with what I want in there but that is a bit counter-intuitive to this whole thing. I should be able to freely add and remove selected artists as I see fit.

Right - it's folder-specific. Since it will hold 20,000 songs, why not just upload your 17k? You can always delete them later if for some reason you don't want them in the cloud.

 

[Tarpit_Carnivore]

Right - it's folder-specific. Since it will hold 20,000 songs, why not just upload your 17k? You can always delete them later if for some reason you don't want them in the cloud.

What if I don't want to crush my home ISP connection while the songs are uploading? Right now my library is just over 70GB and that is a lot of data to push over a connection with a 2Mbps upload restriction.

I've made a smaller folder with only 5 or so artists just try it out so I can compare it to Subsonic.

 

[BSG75]

Used this for about 5 minutes and already dislike it. I found this in the help page: "Currently, we do not support selecting a specific playlist, artist, or track to upload."

For me this is a major problem as my library is over 600 artists with some artists have 2-3 full albums (almost 17K songs). I wanted to try and use this an extension of my internal storage but it looks like, for right now, they will only do full library syncs. I know I can manually make a different folder with what I want in there but that is a bit counter-intuitive to this whole thing. I should be able to freely add and remove selected artists as I see fit.

I already use Subsonic, I just wanted to try this out to see how it would compare.

That is kind of a pain. I don't even use iTunes to WMP. I use winamp. I used my tool from my sig. I "synced" specific Winamp playlists with my own C drive and uploaded that to Google Music. It does mean duplicating music on the hard drive, but I have room to spare. I only put about 1500 songs up though. I am not done rating the rest (~5500 songs).

 

[Richard Devine]

Think of us poor UK users, we can't get amazon cloud player or google music. Google music in particular would leave me with no need for an ipod anymore and i can't get it

 

[Tarpit_Carnivore]

Think of us poor UK users, we can't get amazon cloud player or google music. Google music in particular would leave me with no need for an ipod anymore and i can't get it

In the interim check out software like Subsonic, JRiver or AudioGalaxy. Essentially accomplish the same thing the only difference is you use your own computer instead of uploading the music to cloud storage.

 

[funlap38]

Just got my invite today at 1:15 pm EST. I signed up briefly after the keynote.

 

[ottscay]

What if I don't want to crush my home ISP connection while the songs are uploading? Right now my library is just over 70GB and that is a lot of data to push over a connection with a 2Mbps upload restriction. I've made a smaller folder with only 5 or so artists just try it out so I can compare it to Subsonic.

Yeah, if your upload speed is restricted it would take awhile, although it runs in the background without you needing to do anything (my files took about 3 days to fully upload, although that was partially because I added another folder after two days) and of course you can use the service even while it's uploading.

To be sure, the idea of music matching (not having to upload) your files is a good one, but apparently neither Amazon nor Google could make the deals work (yet). Apple may be having more luck (although we'll have to see what their service looks life before we'll know what that means). Anyways, your small test is a good idea, and who knows, for some people holding out for Apple's service might be a good idea (or waiting to see if Google Music eventually gets that feature).

For users like me this is already a fantastic service, one that lets me shed iTunes and my iPod, which I'm thrilled about.

 

[RazorDroid]

For users like me this is already a fantastic service, one that lets me shed iTunes and my iPod, which I'm thrilled about.

+1 BROTHER!

 

[jimbl]

I couldn't wait any longer, bought a $0.99 MP3 album on Amazon and got the 20GB cloud drive free for a year. Hopefully Google Music will be out of beta by the end of that year.

 

[Tarpit_Carnivore]

Yeah, if your upload speed is restricted it would take awhile, although it runs in the background without you needing to do anything (my files took about 3 days to fully upload, although that was partially because I added another folder after two days) and of course you can use the service even while it's uploading.

To be sure, the idea of music matching (not having to upload) your files is a good one, but apparently neither Amazon nor Google could make the deals work (yet). Apple may be having more luck (although we'll have to see what their service looks life before we'll know what that means). Anyways, your small test is a good idea, and who knows, for some people holding out for Apple's service might be a good idea (or waiting to see if Google Music eventually gets that feature).

For users like me this is already a fantastic service, one that lets me shed iTunes and my iPod, which I'm thrilled about.

My other reservation about dumping all the music up there is we still don't know if google is going to charge for space.

Either way I tried it on my way home from work today and I was impressed. The quality was OK although I do like controlling the quality via subsonic. The interface is pretty solid though, thoroughly impressed.

I hope they make some changes for the better based on user feedback, such as uploading through a web portal or drag and drop uploading like file attachments with gmail.

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[ottscay]

My other reservation about dumping all the music up there is we still don't know if google is going to charge for space.

I've thought of this. I figure worse case you just don't pay and no longer have the service. I'm not not re-enacting the Office Space printer sequence with my hard drives yet, so for me at least it's a minimal concern.

I expect at some point we'll have to pay something, I suspect it will be lower than the competitions' prices since Google has more efficient data center costs than competitors, and they can probably indulge this service as a larger loss-leader than most of them (as opposed to Amazon, who isn't making money aside from the service itself).

 

[Dark Wizard Matoya]

I just got my invite a few seconds ago. Looks like the wait is over.



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[.46caliber]

I got my invite over the weekend, started uploading tonight. I never thought I'd be mad about my upload connection, but tonight I am. 23mbps down, and only 1mbps up.

 

[terpitude71]

got mine a few hours ago. requested about an hour after the keynote

 

[Slapnpop826]

I really like google music. I do wish It would allow me to upload songs from my phone to the cloud, but other than that I am pleased. It intergrates well with my itunes playlist which is how all of my music is organized.

 

[pfiz113]

just got my invite for google music yesterday!! i uploaded about 2k songs, works good over 3g, widget is okay, no lockscreen controls though.