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Re: Google Music Service

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Post by dfreidin »

slackerIII wrote: post #52
dfreidin wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

We've had a lot of users have success with Audiogalaxy using this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137890

I'm not sure what I was supposed to see in that link, but I already figured that Audiogalaxy ran as a service, and that's not the problem. To clarify, I meant that I want to be able to have an app (not necessarily Audiogalaxy, just something similar) where I can input an address for a service on my computer (IP:port or URL), and log in directly to the service without going through any other servers (except DNS) at any point in the process. Nothing against your product, it's just how I prefer to do things. I don't even mind that much having to make an account to download the software since it's still in beta; it's just that since the music is already being streamed directly from my computer I'd rather have authentication happen there as well. I realize that an average user probably doesn't care, but I do.

Re: Google Music Service

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Post by slackerIII »

dfreidin wrote: post #61
slackerIII wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've had a lot of users have success with Audiogalaxy using this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137890

I'm not sure what I was supposed to see in that link, but I already figured that Audiogalaxy ran as a service, and that's not the problem. To clarify, I meant that I want to be able to have an app (not necessarily Audiogalaxy, just something similar) where I can input an address for a service on my computer (IP:port or URL), and log in directly to the service without going through any other servers (except DNS) at an…

Ah, I understand now -- I misread your first post and thought you were talking about Windows accounts.

Re: Google Music Service

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Post by timdorr »

petervandijck wrote: post #41
cypherpunks01 wrote: post #10

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?

http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp

Has Android and iOS clients, and is also accessible via the web. It's not as clean and polished as I'd like, but it works reliably enough for my tastes and is fully open sourced.

Re: Google Music Service

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Post by mustpax »

Plugawy wrote: post #30
p4bl0 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Do you just port forward with SSH via -D? Or do you use some sort of VPN solution?

Re: Google Music Service

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Post by tybris »

petervandijck wrote: post #41
cypherpunks01 wrote: post #10

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?

Cool, I'll just upload all my music, turn on my car radio, and ... hey wait a minute.

Re: Google Music Service

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Post by dcguy »

petervandijck wrote: post #41
cypherpunks01 wrote: post #10

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?

You can use Tonido (http://www.tonido.com) to stream your home music collection.It has native mobile apps for iOS,Android, Blackberry and w7.

Re: Google Music Service

#68

Post by igorgue »

smackfu wrote: post #9

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.

Github would disagree.

I think they had success generating buzz out of their invites, remember that wave and buzz were trending on Twitter for weeks. I don't really think this kills products, just sets expectations really high, if they match (Gmail) then good, if they not (Wave) then bad.

Re: Google Music Service

#69

Post by montagg »

petervandijck wrote: post #41
cypherpunks01 wrote: post #10

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's compelling, but it feels like catchup.

And I can't see why Google didn't go farther. Whatever Apple's rebranded MobileMe turns out to be, it's almost certainly going to be more ambitious than Google and Amazon's services. Google has to know that. I just don't see why they didn't really act on it.

Re: Google Music Service

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Post by jcampbell1 »

cypherpunks01 wrote: post #10

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…

> ...upload all of your own music yourself, which would take forever...

Does anyone know if they actually upload the files, or just upload if a hash of the file doesn't exist? I have a hard time believing that Google hasn't already thought of this. I imagine that less than 5% of your music actually has to go over the wire once google has a large collection of music on their servers.

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