Guest 11 Bills Posted May 10, 2011 Report Share Posted May 10, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO — In its long-anticipated effort to bring music storage to the cloud, Google debuted its own streaming music service at its I/O developer conference on Tuesday morning. Dubbed “Music Beta by Google,” the service will act as a “digital locker,” where users can store their music in the cloud instead of on their local hard drives or mobile devices. After uploading your existing music library to a remote server, you’ll be able to stream your music to your Android phone or web-connected PC. As long as you’re connected to the internet, you’ll be able to access your music wherever you go. You’ll be able to add up to 20,000 songs, and it’s free while its in beta mode. Like Amazon, which launched a similar service in March, Google does not have licensing deals with the music labels. Billboard named two “bottlenecks,” Sony and Universal Music Group, and said the lack of deals meant Google was able to offer less of a service than it had wanted. sauce http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/05/google-music-beta-io/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FA23 Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 u.s only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skola Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 not impressed with this cloud type service 20,000 tracks X 3.5 mb a track = am i right in saying thats about 70gb? some phones have half of that capacity and no data connection required what are the benefits? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenny Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 Streaming is a battery killer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FA23 Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 not impressed with this cloud type service 20,000 tracks X 3.5 mb a track = am i right in saying thats about 70gb? some phones have half of that capacity and no data connection required what are the benefits? you dont have to waste phone memory with tracks. you can log onto any computer and play your music. you will never have a hd failure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 11 Bills Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 yea it will be a bandwidth and battery killer im hoping theyve thought about that and implemented something cos wen im browsin my battery just nose dives Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skola Posted May 12, 2011 Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 valid edit: - Faze - but davids points of bandwidth and battery clash with yours is this pretty similar to spotify except you can only access the files you have uploaded? licence thing might be a problem but if you are uploading and then streaming stuff back to your device couldnt they argue that its on the end user to make sure files have been obtained legally? this whole idea is kinda strange imo but i dont blame them for trying for a piece of the pie ultimately everyone including the record labels are pisssed that apple were first movers and locked the sh*t down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FA23 Posted May 12, 2011 Report Share Posted May 12, 2011 valid edit: - Faze - but davids points of bandwidth and battery clash with yours is this pretty similar to spotify except you can only access the files you have uploaded? licence thing might be a problem but if you are uploading and then streaming stuff back to your device couldnt they argue that its on the end user to make sure files have been obtained legally? this whole idea is kinda strange imo but i dont blame them for trying for a piece of the pie ultimately everyone including the record labels are pisssed that apple were first movers and locked the sh*t down yeah but bandwidth availability and battery power are getting better every year. it will be only be a couple of years when smarthphones have the ability to run for weeks like 8310's did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skola Posted May 13, 2011 Report Share Posted May 13, 2011 I hope so Technology and power consumption growth has been greater than that of battery capacity for a while Do you think dual and quad core are gonna help much? I cant say the Galaxy S2 is drastically better than other single core smartphones even with a slightly larger than average battery (1650 ma or whatever) Thing is you can already buy bigger battery packs and phone backs but seems like the designers are pushing slimness/asthetics over power/functionality... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Edgar Posted May 17, 2011 Report Share Posted May 17, 2011 Nice concept, but its not really a replacement of having your music on a usb/phone. Nothing is worst than being stuck on the Andes, then realising you cannot get signal to stream you uploaded content while waiting for rescue. It also raises security/legal issues surrounding the ownership of copywritten music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dub Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 On November 13, we're bringing music on Google Play to Europe. Those of you in the U.K, France, Germany, Italy and Spain will be able to purchase music from the Google Play store and add up to 20,000 songs—for free—from your existing collection to the cloud for streaming to your Android devices or web browser. We’re also launching our new matching feature to streamline the process of uploading your personal music to Google Play. We’ll scan your music collection and any song we match against the Google Play catalog will be automatically added to your online library without needing to upload it, saving you time. This will be available in Europe at launch on November 13 and is coming to the U.S. soon after. This will all be for free—free storage of your music, free matching, free syncing across your devices and free listening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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