Google Music

[jtexans]

I still have not received my invite...but my NS4G just updated the Music Beta app on the phone.

wtf?

 

[MBeattie]

I have not received mine either, nor has anyone that I know. The app was made available because it can still be used with the existing music on your device until your invite arrives. Plus its nice to know the Nexus does really get all the new Google apps and updates as soon as they're ready regardless of us being able to use them or not.

 

[BlackHawkA4]

I have not received mine either, nor has anyone that I know. The app was made available because it can still be used with the existing music on your device until your invite arrives. Plus its nice to know the Nexus does really get all the new Google apps and updates as soon as they're ready regardless of us being able to use them or not.

Yes. I love that. I signed up for 2 accounts. 2 phones. Nothing yet.

 

[splmonster]

I have not received mine either, nor has anyone that I know. The app was made available because it can still be used with the existing music on your device until your invite arrives. Plus its nice to know the Nexus does really get all the new Google apps and updates as soon as they're ready regardless of us being able to use them or not.

Invitations started getting sent out today

 

[STL 314]

I still have not received my invite...but my NS4G just updated the Music Beta app on the phone.

wtf?

The updated app has been out for a week...

 

[BlackHawkA4]

The updated app has been out for a week...

Maybe he didn't look and didn't get the notification?

 

[bucketheadmn]

I still have not received my invite...but my NS4G just updated the Music Beta app on the phone.

wtf?

The Android Music app and the online service Music Beta are independent apps/services of each other. The Android app was updated to sync with and work with Music Beta, but it is not dependent on the service. I am sure there will be plenty of people that use the app without using the online service.

 

[simon.ponder]

Invite Received

I received my invite yesterday evening @ 6 pm. Started uploading shortly thereafter.

I was using audioGalaxy before, but had to either keep a user logged in to run the upstream client on my server, or set it up as a service. But I don't like the service idea because I do not have access to their source.

I already like it because I can download specific songs directly to the device in case of low/no signal.

 

[kalex]

Applied for invite during the keynote. nothing yet

 

[theotherlinh]

Applied for invite during the keynote. nothing yet

applied before the keynote and still nothing =(

 

[budarydachas]

2pm in LA and still nothing .

 

[gramamoose]

What, where, and why do apply for anything???
Is this going to be a permanent situation? In order to use the cloud I have to apply, get an invite, then be able to upload???
Not quite clear on how this is to work.

 

[simon.ponder]

I like it so far.

I am unsure why I got my invite before everyone else. I was at work when it came across the wire that the invite page was live. I went and signed up. Probably around the time of the keynote. It took a little over the day on my barely faster than dsl connection to upload 2013 songs.

For those asking questions about how this works, you give them your songs, then you can stream them to any device that is 2.2 or higher, I believe. All you need is their new music app. You can also stream to any browser I believe. Although I haven't tried it in a mobile browser yet.

You can pin songs to your device, which downloads them to your phone for times you may not have great service.

Hope you all start getting your invites.

 

[BlackHawkA4]

Still nothing.

Wait. Is it still going to be 20000 songs free storage after beta?

 

[theotherlinh]

Still nothing.

Wait. Is it still going to be 20000 songs free storage after beta?

heh, i highly doubt it. Amazon gives away 5GB free, so Google will probably do 10, or maybe 5GB with an infinity counter like gmail.

or actually, I would rather them combine it with my gmail account. I've got 7.5GB free there... combine all their storage options, and you can buy it as a pool.. for picasa, music, docs, email..

 

[splmonster]

heh, i highly doubt it. Amazon gives away 5GB free, so Google will probably do 10, or maybe 5GB with an infinity counter like gmail.

or actually, I would rather them combine it with my gmail account. I've got 7.5GB free there... combine all their storage options, and you can buy it as a pool.. for picasa, music, docs, email..

Well 20k songs would be a huge of amount of storage. Considering my 7400 songs in my library are almost 40gb's of space.

 

[BlackHawkA4]

I'd be happy with 10gb free.

 

[oxeneers]

Actually, I've uploaded over 80GB of music. They only limit the sheer number of songs (currently 20,000) and not the size. So you can have lossless MP3s and it will stick as long as you're under 20k songs.

Amazing right? YES.

 

[theotherlinh]

Actually, I've uploaded over 80GB of music. They only limit the sheer number of songs (currently 20,000) and not the size. So you can have lossless MP3s and it will stick as long as you're under 20k songs.

Amazing right? YES.

but they've clearly said this is for the duration of the beta. they have not decided on pricing or how much will be free. I suspect it will be "5-10k songs" as the vast majority of ppl won't be doing lossless =)

If they can score a deal w/ the labels, they can significantly reduce storage likely by building a single database of songs to replicate out. It'd be more like a streaming service.

on the flip side, we saw how long gmail was in beta... so ......

 

[gabbott]

So I've heard the google music transcodes to mp3 for streaming, can anyone confirm and know at what bitrate?

I have a bunch of lossless music that I was just going to transcode to ogg to upload when I get the music beta invite but if they are going to just be transcoding it, not such a good idea for me to upload low bitrate ogg files. Was hoping they would stream the files I upload untouched.