News - Google Music opens its doors in US, Android app available

[HEXUS]

UK release date still unknown, but iTunes rival kicks off in the US.

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[mark22]

Been running this on my SGS2 here in the UK for months now. It's really quite good.

[crossy]

Been running this on my SGS2 here in the UK for months now. It's really quite good.

Any chance of a mini-review ... for those of us not on the Beta?

That said, I'm slightly wary about Google having access to my CD rips. I'm already getting a little paranoid about the amount of information that they've got on me - e.g. when I signed up for Google+ recently, it recommended that I put the Dalai Lama and Joe Satriani in my celebrity circle. I've just finished reading a (paperback) book by the former and I've been to a couple of concerts from the latter - how did Google know? After all, it's not as if I'm on Facebook or anything like that.

[Repressor]

Still no lossless from any online distributor...

CDs will be my medium of choice for a while...

It's nice that the cloud thing is free though...

[Brewster0101]

No doubt Apple will kick their toys out their pram and start a barrage of law suites.

[crossy]

No doubt Apple will kick their toys out their pram and start a barrage of law suites.

Quite true, "litigation instead of innovation" seems to be the motto at the moment at Apple HQ.

That said, I would have thought that there were plenty of other services that Google could point at as "competition". Spotify, Amazon, 7Digital, Ubuntu Music Store (especially!).

Still prefer to buy CD's though ...

[TaintedShirt]

@mark22
Are you finding it slow to upload music? Over the past 6-8 weeks I've managed to upload about 1300 songs. It'll take forever to get them all uploaded.

[mark22]

I uploaded about 23Gb when I got on board.

[TaintedShirt]

Thanks for that, I'd just assumed the upload was slow because of my net speed. Just checked and found Kaspersky slows Music Manager's upload unless you tell it not to scan its network traffic.

Now I just have got to sort out some temporary file attributes and it should be sorted.


edit.
Just wanted to add that thanks to Mark pointing out his upload levels for songs, I got off my ass and checked out my slow uploads. KIS2012 seemed to be slowing it all down. I have just added over 500 songs in the past two days while I have it running on slow. Thanks again.