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Posted May 10, 2011
Right when I start looking for a music storage/streaming service, Google Music is announced. I hope invites get sent out soon, because I'd like to start listening at work as soon as possible.

EDIT: I should mention this is currently U.S. only. I'm not sure why; the whole project is completely ignoring the concerns raised by the music industry.
Post edited May 10, 2011 by PhoenixWright
Posted May 10, 2011
" We're sorry. Music Beta is currently only available in the United States "

Try this instead

http://www.shoutcast.com/
Post edited May 10, 2011 by lackoo1111
Posted May 10, 2011
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lackoo1111: " We're sorry. Music Beta is currently only available in the United States "

Try this instead

http://www.shoutcast.com/
Sorry, should have mentioned that. But I want the music that I... actually want! And already have!
Posted May 10, 2011
di.fm

Everything else is crap. :p

EDIT: Oh and it won't have my music so I couldn't care less.
Post edited May 10, 2011 by KavazovAngel
Posted May 10, 2011
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PhoenixWright: Right when I start looking for a music storage/streaming service, Google Music is announced. I hope invites get sent out soon, because I'd like to start listening at work as soon as possible.

EDIT: I should mention this is currently U.S. only. I'm not sure why; the whole project is completely ignoring the concerns raised by the music industry.
I'm guessing it's because they've got a better idea as to the legal situation in the US, rather than the random assortment of countries that make up the EU.
Posted May 10, 2011
I'd prefer streaming from home instead of 'push to cloud' - that way you never would run into a limit on space other than what you have at home. This is why something like subsonic still works best for me.
Posted May 10, 2011
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rjspring: I'd prefer streaming from home instead of 'push to cloud' - that way you never would run into a limit on space other than what you have at home. This is why something like subsonic still works best for me.
How's the setup for Subsonic? Easy?
Posted May 10, 2011
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rjspring: I'd prefer streaming from home instead of 'push to cloud' - that way you never would run into a limit on space other than what you have at home. This is why something like subsonic still works best for me.
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PhoenixWright: How's the setup for Subsonic? Easy?
Yeah, less than 10 minutes if you read up ahead of time - very easy, mostly web based.
Posted May 10, 2011
Can anyone explain to me why the GMusic is any better than the Amazon cloud music stuff? I mean, I enjoy that both companies individually actually gross more than the entire RIAA combined and are flipping them the bird, but Google's offering doesn't actually seem any better than Amazon's.
Posted May 10, 2011
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orcishgamer: Can anyone explain to me why the GMusic is any better than the Amazon cloud music stuff? I mean, I enjoy that both companies individually actually gross more than the entire RIAA combined and are flipping them the bird, but Google's offering doesn't actually seem any better than Amazon's.
I am just getting into this cloud storage thing so I'm not really informed, but it looks like you have to buy something from Amazon to get 20GB of storage. I don't know how much Google is offering as far as storage space, but you don't have to buy anything to get it.

EDIT: Also, yeah, I'm excited to see that bird getting flipped. *flips bird*
Post edited May 10, 2011 by PhoenixWright
Posted May 10, 2011
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orcishgamer: Can anyone explain to me why the GMusic is any better than the Amazon cloud music stuff? I mean, I enjoy that both companies individually actually gross more than the entire RIAA combined and are flipping them the bird, but Google's offering doesn't actually seem any better than Amazon's.
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PhoenixWright: I am just getting into this cloud storage thing so I'm not really informed, but it looks like you have to buy something from Amazon to get 20GB of storage. I don't know how much Google is offering as far as storage space, but you don't have to buy anything to get it.

EDIT: Also, yeah, I'm excited to see that bird getting flipped. *flips bird*
I read 50GB from Google. As far as buying something from Amazon, they're one of the premier online music shops, in the US at least, so finding something to buy should not be too terribly hard, even if it's one 69 cent song.
Posted May 10, 2011
also should be noted that with Amazon, anything purchased from their Music store is not considered in your cloud space calculations(so you could own everything there and still have the free 5gb left), and they are also giving away 20gigs free for a year to anyone who buys an album(not sure if its all albums or just a few), which is quite nice.

imho google is too little too late this time, I don't need an "invite" to get onto the Amazon music cloud player, and I've already uploaded all my music to that, so no real point in switching to google at this point... of course they will probably come up with some irresistible feature before the end...
Posted May 10, 2011
I'm a bit confused. Are you uploading the actual music files, or uploading some sort of playlist derived from the files on the source PC? The playlist thing would assume that since you already have the song somewhere then you own the license to listen to it, and thus this service would provide the actual file that's being played.

If it's a file upload, then I don't see that big of an advantage over, say, connecting your music-storing phone to a playback device. Granted, not everyone uses a phone as a music player but for those who do, this service (which seems like it's going to morph into pay-to-play) seems a bit redundant.
Posted May 10, 2011
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HereForTheBeer: If it's a file upload, then I don't see that big of an advantage over, say, connecting your music-storing phone to a playback device. Granted, not everyone uses a phone as a music player but for those who do, this service (which seems like it's going to morph into pay-to-play) seems a bit redundant.
Honestly streaming over the web is the reason I'm most excited, and I'd rather Google take care of the streaming than my home PC. The use case for me is I'm at someone's house and want to stream my music over their system because it's a party, we need background music, etc. Also, same thing at work, but probably on a more personal level. My damn phone dies pretty fast if I listen to music, and yeah, I guess I could have a USB cable handy at all times... but if Google is giving me 50GB of free space (holy crap, that's more than I was expecting), I'm all for using it.
Posted May 11, 2011
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emusan: also should be noted that with Amazon, anything purchased from their Music store is not considered in your cloud space calculations(so you could own everything there and still have the free 5gb left), and they are also giving away 20gigs free for a year to anyone who buys an album(not sure if its all albums or just a few), which is quite nice.

imho google is too little too late this time, I don't need an "invite" to get onto the Amazon music cloud player, and I've already uploaded all my music to that, so no real point in switching to google at this point... of course they will probably come up with some irresistible feature before the end...
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lukipela: You need an invite because it is still in beta. Jeez.
The whole invite/beta thing is just Google's way to hype shit these days.

Regardless, it's a valid complaint, with the Amazon.com service I just woke up one day and suddenly my Amazon.com MP3 Store Android app did all the cloud stuff and it was already just hooked up, integrated, and worked. Why should someone who had that be excited about Google's roll out method?
Post edited May 11, 2011 by orcishgamer
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