Google Music Service

#1

Post by joao » Tue, May 10, 2011, 3:55 PM UTC

Google Music Service
music.google.com

Re: Google Music Service

#2

Post by cing » Tue, May 10, 2011, 4:07 PM UTC

Screenshots for those of us outside the US please!

Re: Google Music Service

#3

Post by lostbit » Tue, May 10, 2011, 4:09 PM UTC

We're sorry. Music Beta is currently only available in the United States

It bothers me when this happens... I end giving up to find proxies or other ways to reach the site.

Re: Google Music Service

#4

Post by thisisblurry » Tue, May 10, 2011, 4:14 PM UTC

cing wrote: post #2

Screenshots for those of us outside the US please!

I already requested an invite, but here is what the 'Thank you' page looks like: http://jhn.me/6ckz

Re: Google Music Service

#5

Post by andrewjshults » Tue, May 10, 2011, 4:14 PM UTC

cing wrote: post #2

Screenshots for those of us outside the US please!

Looks like it's currently just a beta signup page (at least that was all I got).

Re: Google Music Service

#6

Post by thisisblurry » Tue, May 10, 2011, 4:15 PM UTC

Here's the help page that might provide some extra information: http://www.google.com/support/music/

Re: Google Music Service

#7

Post by skymt » Tue, May 10, 2011, 4:16 PM UTC

cing wrote: post #2

Screenshots for those of us outside the US please!

Here's a YouTube demo (I don't know if it's US-only): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrNhKcxBbZo

And here's a screenshot of the page: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12299925/About%20Music%20Beta%20by%2...

Re: Google Music Service

#8

Post by p4bl0 » Tue, May 10, 2011, 4:20 PM UTC

lostbit wrote: post #3

We're sorry. Music Beta is currently only available in the United States It bothers me when this happens... I end giving up to find proxies or other ways to reach the site.

Same here. This happen so often that I might consider renting a VPS in the US to use it as a proxy. I found some at $5/mo with 250GB/mo for bandwidth, I even think it's enough to share and pay only $2.5/mo...

Re: Google Music Service

#9

Post by smackfu » Tue, May 10, 2011, 4:20 PM UTC

I would have thought Google had learned their lesson about doing limited roll-outs: that artificially limiting the network effect kills your product. What worked for GMail hasn't worked anywhere else.

Re: Google Music Service

#10

Post by cypherpunks01 » Tue, May 10, 2011, 4:23 PM UTC

From the screenshot, it looks even less useful than Amazon's player.

You have to upload all of your own music yourself, which would take forever for anyone who has a collection big enough that they can't carry on their phone or ipod. Also, there is absolutely no conceivable benefit to musicians. At least amazon allows you to easily buy albums.

There doesn't appear to be any useful additional functionality either. Social interaction, concert ticket listings, artist info, last.fm tag data, lyrics and all the other things I'd want from a google music service don't look like they're going to be available.