I received a Google Music beta invite

[dlock13]

Finally got my invite today. Uploading only around 3.6GB of music first to see how it goes then will upload more.

Lucky. I'm still uploading my 30 GB collection. Albeit, it's not going on the fastest setting, but it's still uploading.

The one awesome thing about this is the fact that I can listen to the music anywhere on my Android phone. I never have to worry about storage. The one bad thing is that if I were to switch to iOS or to WebOS or any other OS, you can't use it at all.

I do think it's awesome, and I've been using it as my music player ever since I received the invite.

 

[trmiv]

Does anyone find the streaming of music that isn't stored on your device a little spotty? With Google Music the stuff that isn't stored locally seems to buffer a lot when I listen to it. Drives me nuts. Could be the area, but I don't seem to have these problems with Pandora or Slacker.

 

[Dulanic]

Does anyone find the streaming of music that isn't stored on your device a little spotty? With Google Music the stuff that isn't stored locally seems to buffer a lot when I listen to it. Drives me nuts. Could be the area, but I don't seem to have these problems with Pandora or Slacker.

Well remember too, if it's recorded at 320, for example, it has to stream 320. Unlike Pandora or Slacker which do 128. Having said that, most of my stuff is 200+ and I don't tend to have any issues but my 3G here seems rather fast.

 

[TheInternet1980]

I just used it on a long drive from Cleveland to NYC to DC.

When you have a strong signal, it's a beautiful thing to stream your entire library while driving.

When you're on Edge...not so pretty. Lots of buffering, refusing to stream a song a minute or so in, and just moving on to the next track, etc. etc. But it's to be expected.

Overall, pretty awesome. I have 10k songs on their servers...so it's safe to say I'm using this exclusively.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

so i'd like drag and drop support.

this is the WORST managed music service ever -_-

 

[obidamnkenobi]

wow, I actually got an invite. Lets see; I only have an ipod touch so that doesn't work, the network at work prohibit any music streaming, so I can use it... at home? yeah not the most useful. An Android device with a high data cap (or proper internet bandwidth at your high tech workplace!) would probably make this much more useful.

 

[Glitchny]

so i'd like drag and drop support.

this is the WORST managed music service ever -_-

lol

Point the Google music uploader at your music folder... Drag things into folder... watch them appear in Google music.

seems like drag and drop does work.

 

[Dulanic]

so i'd like drag and drop support.

this is the WORST managed music service ever -_-

Ummmm drag and drop it to a folder that you store your music? How hard is this? I store all my files in one folder which I have network mapped....sooooo hard! Not to mention it even automatically adds shit for you as you download it.

 

[MikeMike]

Have gotten an invite...

just a slight issue... Only have an iPod touch, and other than that my laptop travels with me every where...

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

So you know that crowd that bitches that iTunes is terrible and its a managed service, yadayadayada? Yeah I know that it's bloat, but in terms of dragging the music I want to my iPod, it's not that bad. I can choose which songs, which folders by drag and drop.

In Google Music I have to add directories. Many of us have folders for different albums. So I have to add the whole album. Yes I appreciate that it can see my music folder and auto update. I could just have it upload my 25 GB of MP3s, but do I really need 25GB of crap on there and also do I really want to spend precious hours uploading? Maybe, maybe not. Sometimes I want just an album, or just a few songs off an album. Then what?

This concept is great I understand, but allow drag and drop kinda like Dropbox and other cloud solutions. Right now it's like you're forced to upload your whole music directory or nothing at all. No pausing uploading if you need the bandwidth, etc etc.

 

[Dulanic]

So you know that crowd that bitches that iTunes is terrible and its a managed service, yadayadayada? Yeah I know that it's bloat, but in terms of dragging the music I want to my iPod, it's not that bad. I can choose which songs, which folders by drag and drop.

In Google Music I have to add directories. Many of us have folders for different albums. So I have to add the whole album. Yes I appreciate that it can see my music folder and auto update. I could just have it upload my 25 GB of MP3s, but do I really need 25GB of crap on there and also do I really want to spend precious hours uploading? Maybe, maybe not. Sometimes I want just an album, or just a few songs off an album. Then what?

This concept is great I understand, but allow drag and drop kinda like Dropbox and other cloud solutions. Right now it's like you're forced to upload your whole music directory or nothing at all. No pausing uploading if you need the bandwidth, etc etc.

That is not the idea of cloud music storage. The idea is to store ALL of your music and then you get to decide what you want to playback. Google music's core is music STORAGE.

If you don't want to use it for storage then... well this isn't for you nor is it meant to be.

Oh and for bandwith....

Looks like options to help with bandwith.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

So you know that crowd that bitches that iTunes is terrible and its a managed service, yadayadayada? Yeah I know that it's bloat, but in terms of dragging the music I want to my iPod, it's not that bad. I can choose which songs, which folders by drag and drop.

In Google Music I have to add directories. Many of us have folders for different albums. So I have to add the whole album. Yes I appreciate that it can see my music folder and auto update. I could just have it upload my 25 GB of MP3s, but do I really need 25GB of crap on there and also do I really want to spend precious hours uploading? Maybe, maybe not. Sometimes I want just an album, or just a few songs off an album. Then what?

This concept is great I understand, but allow drag and drop kinda like Dropbox and other cloud solutions. Right now it's like you're forced to upload your whole music directory or nothing at all. No pausing uploading if you need the bandwidth, etc etc.

If you want, just make yourself a random folder, point google music to it, and Drag and Drop files into that folder, Tada, drag and drop.

 

[poofyhairguy]

http://tech.pnosker.com/2011/11/16/google-music-opens-to-public-in-the-us/

 

[Anubis]

. Right now it's like you're forced to upload your whole music directory or nothing at all. No pausing uploading if you need the bandwidth, etc etc.

no your not actually and there are bandwidth options

the ONLY issue ive had with it since i got the beta months ago is that the uploader will not realize you changed MP3 tags and reupload something

also if you have both FLAC and MP3 versions of albums and simply point it top the main music dir it uploads both and your album will go song 1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,....

last issue is that its not smart enough to seperate albums with the same name but different artists. i have a bunch of "Greatest Hits" albums from various people. GMusic this its all the same album. This can be fixed it tagging the album artist tag i beleive but i never use that one

 

[Doppel]

http://tech.pnosker.com/2011/11/16/google-music-opens-to-public-in-the-us/

Seems like an incredible tool for piracy among friends, isn't it?

 

[BigDaddyD]

I got my invite, and I think they definitely changed the advanced settings. You do not have any choice but to have all of your songs imported. On the advanced tab, the

"Upload music to my selected folders" area is gone from my advanced tab. Therefore, there is no way to select manual, or any way to upload songs...it just automatically uploads all of them.

 

[Ravynmagi]

Unfortunately I see Google still has not fixed the issue where half my music is showing up with incorrect album art. *sigh*

I guess it has something to do with a messed up ID3 tag somewhere. But a shame that it seems to affect so many other songs.

Wish I could just disable album art all together.

 

[sgrinavi]

I've been using it for a couple months, it's pretty handy.

I got an email today saying that it's no longer in Beta....

Dear Music Beta user,
We're excited to announce that Music Beta by Google is officially graduating from beta today! Google Music will remain a free service, and you can continue to store up to 20,000 songs in your personal music library. Please see the revised Terms of Service for this product update.

 

[MrX8503]

I just uninstalled Google Music Beta because I wasn't using it and now I get a Google Music invite. Since I have an iPhone, I won't be able to access it, well without relative ease anyway. So I probably wont be using the service unfortunately.

Google Music should do what iTunes Match and Spotify does. What the other services do is that it aggregates the songs you have, then you play the songs that iTunes and Spotify has on storage. There's no uploading or waiting.

 

[Anubis]

Unfortunately I see Google still has not fixed the issue where half my music is showing up with incorrect album art. *sigh*

I guess it has something to do with a messed up ID3 tag somewhere. But a shame that it seems to affect so many other songs.

Wish I could just disable album art all together.

its both google and ID3 tags actually

ive noticed that if i manually assign album art its correct, but if i dont its kinda random if it gets it right or not, it seems to only auto pull it for some things and if an song exists on more then one album it messes up

also it really doesnt know what to do with import editions

 

[ericlp]

So let me get this straight. I downloaded all my music from the net, now I gotta re-up everything back to the net again? Can't I just tell google I own it and upload all my play list's so that google can just play the song off the cloud? It would be nice to just have some software search your computer for all your songs and then create access to a big database of googles music so everyone doesn't have to 're-up' millions of songs ... what a waste of bandwidth.

 

[trmiv]

So let me get this straight. I downloaded all my music from the net, now I gotta re-up everything back to the net again? Can't I just tell google I own it and upload all my play list's so that google can just play the song off the cloud? It would be nice to just have some software search your computer for all your songs and then create access to a big database of googles music so everyone doesn't have to 're-up' millions of songs ... what a waste of bandwidth.

You just described iTunes Match. It would be great if Google could do that as well. I know it took me forever to upload my music to Google Music with my crappy upload.

 

[redrider4life4]

I know google says you can upload 20,000 songs, but does it also limit size as well. All my music is pretty much 320 quality so if google limits to 128 for storage reasons I will not be happy.

 

[s44]

I've uploaded hour+ acts of operas encoded at 256AAC as single songs with no problem. I think it finally choked on my 238mb (two-and-a-quarter-hour) single track of Meistersinger Act 3, but 135+mb tracks are fine.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I know google says you can upload 20,000 songs, but does it also limit size as well. All my music is pretty much 320 quality so if google limits to 128 for storage reasons I will not be happy.

Ive uploaded FLAC files that worked just fine.