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. Soc…
I think you forget the core value: listen to your music everywhere.
Is the service called "Music Beta"? Or is it just that the Music service is currently in a beta release? The logo is pretty confusing with equal size given to both 'music' and 'beta'. While I'm excited to try the service, I find the logo a bit awkward and underwhelming.
Google has decided that music in general is still in the beta stage. I don't see them ever removing that label.
If you are interested in this problem but can't get into the beta yet, check out my app: http://www.audiogalaxy.com . You have to leave your home computer running, but it is totally free, available outside of the US, and has both Android and iOS apps.
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. Soc…
I think you forget the core value: listen to your music everywhere. That isn't compelling?
It is, and that's exactly what I used to do with a Linux box running as a dedicated jukebox for both my home stereo and for internet streaming. It was terrific.
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. Soc…
I think you forget the core value: listen to your music everywhere. That isn't compelling?
Yes, that is quite a compelling feature, but I feel like there's nothing revolutionary about it. The non-technically-inclined have been using Grooveshark for a few years to do that, and nerds can just run their own streaming mp3 servers. I'm just a bit disappointed that there isn't any nice functionality like I mentioned above - this seems like just another cloud storage service with a decent and simple Flash interface on top.
Why would I pay for this over a service I already pay for and love (Rdio)? Looking for some thoughts
Looking at your comment history I have to wonder if this is a genuine question or random negative grumpy rhetoric trolling. Rdio seems to have a selected catalogue, while you could upload your own collection to this Google Music service.
If you are interested in this problem but can't get into the beta yet, check out my app: http://www.audiogalaxy.com . You have to leave your home computer running, but it is totally free, available outside of the US, and has both Android and iOS apps.
Oh my... did you guys (Audiogalaxy) have P2P file downloading waaay back in the day, like 2001-2002?
I want to say the first or second thing I was told by roommates to install when I booted up my first computer in college was an Audiogalaxy client.
Logo looks familiar... name sounds familiar... say it's so?
If you are interested in this problem but can't get into the beta yet, check out my app: http://www.audiogalaxy.com . You have to leave your home computer running, but it is totally free, available outside of the US, and has both Android and iOS apps.
I think I've looked at this in the past, and it's almost exactly what I want, but I'd rather be able to have a service running on my computer and be able to have the associated app log directly into my computer without having to have an account with someone else. Does anyone know any system to do that?