kirbypuckett Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 I received my Google Music invite last night and I'm really excited to use it! Anyone else using it yet? I'm very impressed with it so far. It's very simple and smooth. My only major complaint is that it takes a long time to upload music. Only 1,800 songs so far and I started at 5pm on Thursday. I'm importing straight from iTunes and my playlists, playcounts, and ratings (thumbs up or down) have all been transferred as well. The interface is really nice. It's clean and very fast, unlike a lot of desktop music players. I'm testing in Chrome btw. Another thing I don't like is that it seems to be uploading some low res artwork even though I have high quality artwork on almost everything in my iTunes library. I haven't used Amazon's Cloud yet, but I've heard good things about that. I'm also pretty excited about iTunes Match because it will mirror my library, which would take away from all this tedious uploading. I hope Comcast doesn't come knocking down my door because of all my data transferring! If you use Last.FM and want to Scrobble your Google Music plays check out this script: http://www.danielslaughter.com/projects/google-music-with-lastfm/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benchwarmer Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 I got an invite a few weeks ago to google music, but the idea that I couldn't re-download music from there after I upload it bummed me out. iTunes match seems a little better for me, depends on the interface. Amazon cloud seemed really clunky to me. What I've been using for the past year is rdio.com. It's $5 a month, but you can listen practically anything, whether you own it or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihprstl Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 I just got my invite yesterday too. I'm going to start playing with it this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgry Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 My only major complaint is that it takes a long time to upload music. This. I actually just canceled my uploading because it was effecting my Netflix streaming. I wish there was a way to pause the uploading so I can do it at night and stop when I'm using the internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexH. Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 My only major complaint is that it takes a long time to upload music. This. I actually just canceled my uploading because it was effecting my Netflix streaming. I wish there was a way to pause the uploading so I can do it at night and stop when I'm using the internet. On a Mac, you can just quit it by clicking the little headphones in your menu bar and hitting quit. You can resume it later in system preferences. I joined a few days ago, been running it at night, and it's still got a way to go on my 20,000 songs. Not sure how often I'll even use it, but eh, what the hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 How much storage do you get? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexH. Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 20000 songs, no size limit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thievesdont Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Signed up for the beta, haven't received an invite yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troymess Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 I'm waiting on iTunes Match. Google Music sounds great, but 20000 songs isn't quite enough for my whole library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted June 27, 2011 Author Share Posted June 27, 2011 I'm waiting on iTunes Match. Google Music sounds great, but 20000 songs isn't quite enough for my whole library. iTunes Match has a limit of 25,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exitenglish1208 Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 amazon cloud did seem really clunky, never tried it. itunes match seems okay, but from what i gather you can't stream once you upload? it's just for backup purposes? (correct me if i'm wrong) i got a google music invite last week and i was pretty excited, but like everyone said it takes fucking forever, on and off (mostly off, because it really clogs the tubes) it's been going for like 2 days and i'm only about 500 songs in. it will be worth it once it's all up there though, the interface and everything is real nice and it makes my ever-shrinking free space on my phone less stressful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Another Tom Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 It's not available in the UK whilst it is in beta, but this is something i have been waiting for for a long time! Pull your finger out Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 I got my Google Music invite today. It's cool to have, but I don't have anything to use it for now. I'm going to get an Android phone soon, so then it'll be of use to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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