Amazon MP3 > Google Music

[Pray To Jesus]

Better step it up Google.

 

[FoBoT]

yeah, i use both, but mostly amazon

 

[Slick5150]

Google music lets you upload FLAC. Amazon doesn't. Win = Google.
Google's music store purchases are 320kbps MP3s. Amazon are 256kbps. Win = Google.

 

[rudeguy]

amazon's android app is fail. In landscape, you only have 1/10 of your screen for artist/song info

 

[dwell]

MP3s are a thing of the past.

 

[Joseph F]

MP3s are a thing of the past.

Explain.

 

[dwell]

Explain.

Carte blanche services like Spotify beat buying individual MP3s and albums.

 

[0roo0roo]

Explain.

they aren't, but hidef audio should have become more common, 320kbps 44hkz mp3 is kinda wasteful.

 

[Anubis]

Carte blanche services like Spotify beat buying individual MP3s and albums.

in your opinion
not in mine

i've never purchased a single mp3 off any of the stores out there. i still buy CDs and rip them as FLAC, and il will until i can download FLAC from amazon or Google or whoever.

ive uploaded all my crap to google simply because its free and can store almost all of my music,

 

[Codewiz]

Carte blanche services like Spotify beat buying individual MP3s and albums.

Only if you buy more than one album a month. Otherwise, you are better off buying your music.

 

[Raduque]

Google Music has no easy way to import music into another player. I buy on Amazon MP3 and play in Poweramp. I just point Poweramp to the /amazonmp3 folder, and done.

 

[notposting]

Old Zune Pass (w/10 songs) + new Skydrive sounds like ultimate winnerrrrrrrr.

 

[Anubis]

Google Music has no easy way to import music into another player. I buy on Amazon MP3 and play in Poweramp. I just point Poweramp to the /amazonmp3 folder, and done.

you can use the desktop program to download all your purchased music and just tell it to save in the same place that amazon does

 

[Nebor]

Old Zune Pass (w/10 songs) + new Skydrive sounds like ultimate winnerrrrrrrr.

Yup. Microsoft owns me.

 

[rudeguy]

Now I'm really, really wanting a Windows phone.

But I have Verizon

 

[Aluvus]

Google music lets you upload FLAC. Amazon doesn't. Win = Google.
Google's music store purchases are 320kbps MP3s. Amazon are 256kbps. Win = Google.

Amazon's prices are better than Google's, and they routinely run large sales that are much better. Their interface (on the PC) is also far better.

A decent portion of the stuff on Amazon is above 256 kbps or is VBR at about 256 kbps average (a not very scientific estimate based on things I've bought from them suggests about 1/8 are at least 257 kpbs average). And honestly it is extremely difficult for a human being to distinguish 256 kbps MP3 from 320 kbps MP3. Or FLAC, for that matter.

 

[Crono]

Old Zune Pass (w/10 songs) + new Skydrive sounds like ultimate winnerrrrrrrr.

That's what I'm using.

I love Zune. I've been using Zune since the original Zune 30, with the Zune HD, Kin One, Dell Venue Pro, and now my HTC Trophy.
I use SkyDrive for documents only right now, though, and either download or stream from the Marketplace.

 

[Gibson486]

Are you kidding? After the search engine, everything Google has put out has not really beat anything. I mean, sure maps was good and you can make an argument for chrome, but what else is there that was really that good?

 

[rudeguy]

Are you kidding? After the search engine, everything Google has put out has not really beat anything. I mean, sure maps was good and you can make an argument for chrome, but what else is there that was really that good?

Gmail

 

[rudeguy]

Are you kidding? After the search engine, everything Google has put out has not really beat anything. I mean, sure maps was good and you can make an argument for chrome, but what else is there that was really that good?

Android

 

[Crono]

Are you kidding? After the search engine, everything Google has put out has not really beat anything. I mean, sure maps was good and you can make an argument for chrome, but what else is there that was really that good?

Search and Gmail are all I really count on from them.
Google Maps/Earth are good, as well, but other map providers (namely Microsoft) are competing on that front.

They have some other neat services, but nothing I really use that often.
Android is starting to get good with Honeycomb/ICS, but I'm a Windows Phone guy, and the only implementation of Android I own (Google TV on Logitech Revue) is tremendously bugged and flawed.
Not a polished product, though when it works it does work well (but usually Chrome just crashes, Netflix has connection issues, and apps hang).

Chrome is blazing fast on desktops, but I prefer Firefox for its addons.

 

[Gibson486]

Gmail is a f'n bloated pos now, and Android wasn't even Google's product. They simply bought it.

 

[Crono]

Gmail is a f'n bloated pos now, and Android wasn't even Google's product. They simply bought it.

True, Google is making their two primary products (search and GMail) worse when they were just fine as-is.

Google bought Android in 2005. It's come a long way since then.

 

[Raduque]

you can use the desktop program to download all your purchased music and just tell it to save in the same place that amazon does

I'm talking about on my phone. Google Music's offline music feature puts the music into a folder with a .nomedia file in it, so even if i tell Poweramp to use the folder, it won't see the files.

Plus, the GMusic app won't use tags and calls the files names like "5960.mp3".

 

[xSauronx]

Gmail

seriously, work uses exchange so i run outlook on my work laptop...but i hate outlook. part of it is that ive used gmail for so long, but i have an android phone...so tasks, contacts, calendar and mail are synced, always, without me having to do anything. i still prefer gmails interface to outlook, however.

office web apps, however, is going to keep me from ever using google docs again.