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Google Music Service
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Re: Google Music Service
#22Note: music.google.cn is available in China for years now.
Can you explain very briefly what it does? The only part I can read is "Music streaming/download services are not available in your region" Is it the same product they're rolling out in the US?
basically it allows you seach and listen to almost any music for free, with one click.
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#23The look and feel somehow looks inconsistent with other google products
I personally think this is a good thing. I think Google does a great job of getting utility out of their UX, and while this doesn't really do more than the utility of streaming music for the realm of competitors that it is venturing up against I think the more "non-google" it looks, the better. (Disclaimer: I have not used the android music marketplace, which I think might be closest to this area of design for Google of stuff they already had live).
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#24i wonder how much space we'll be given. i can't seem to find it on any of the screens
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seemed to do nothing but the opposite when they rolled out gmail.
My argument would be that GMail didn't need network effects since it was just email and you could easily use GMail while your friends still used whatever they used to use. Contrast to Wave where limited invites kept your friends from using it which kept you from using it.
this music thing isn't a social thing at all really though, it's pure utility and convenience. In this form anyways.
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#26i wonder how much space we'll be given. i can't seem to find it on any of the screens
They had a slide that said "20,000 songs".
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#27We'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...
For links to ~ $5 VPSs, see http://www.lowendbox.com/
Re: Google Music Service
#28Note: music.google.cn is available in China for years now.
Can you explain very briefly what it does? The only part I can read is "Music streaming/download services are not available in your region" Is it the same product they're rolling out in the US?
It is not the same. It is free for search, download and stream, and Google China actually has a deal with big Chinese Record Labels. But from what learned years ago, it cannot stream music to mobile devices.
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#29Note: music.google.cn is available in China for years now.
same with Google India. THey've had streaming music for a while
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#30We'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...
That's what I did - I got a cheapest VPS for $5 so that I can stream stuff from Hulu/CrunchyRoll/and few other services.
Plus - it's always useful to have a VPS anyway.