Free Google Music Player Beta
Users in the US will be able to upload tracks from their personal Music Player collection to Google’s servers and play them on Personal Computer, Android smartphones and tablet devices. Its product, currently named Music Beta, will now launch in a scaled-down form. The free Cloud Music Player Beta service will feature enough space to store 20,000 songs. It is a step forward, and at least consumers can get used to the idea of storing and accessing music via the cloud.
After Amazon launched its new cloud services, beating both Google and Apple in the race to provide cloud storage services that allow customers access to their music and video from multiple devices. Google is jumping into the fray with the launch of its cloud music player ‘Music Beta,’ announced at its annual developer conference, Google I/O.
Like Amazon, Google launched its free music player without entering licensing agreements with record labels or music publishers. Google said at a press conference that its service is “completely legal” because people can only access music they’ve already purchased.
One feature Google Music Player, Instant Mix, will take a song and automatically pair it with other like songs in your collection in a new playlist. All created playlists, added music and changes are automatically available everywhere your music is. Now, no matter where You are, as long as you’ve got Internet access, You’ve got access to my entire music collection.
Google Music Player Beta handles MP3, AAC, WMA and FLAC formats, and lets you store up to 20,000 files. The idea behind Google Music is simple — upload your music collection to a Google server and then access that music collection from the cloud using a Personal Computer, Mac or Android device. iPhone and iPad users look to be out of luck, at least for now, because Google hasn’t developed an iOS app for Google Music, and the Web-based version requires Flash, which iOS doesn’t support. How much storage space that translates to will vary according to the average file size of your music. Google said the service is free while in beta. This is significantly better than Amazon’s recently released Amazon Cloud Player — Amazon’s player doesn’t handle WMA and limits your total storage space to 5GB, regardless of the number of files. Plans start at $20/year for usage over 5 GB.
How to use Google Cloud Music Player
Free Google Music Player Beta
You upload your music via a Music Manager application that you download and install for either a Windows PC or a Mac. You can upload music files from any folder or add your iTunes® library and all of your playlists. And when you add new music to your computer, you can automatically add it to your music collection online. Google has made the upload process exceedingly simple. After installation, it asks whether you use iTunes or Windows Media Player for your music collection, and then automatically grabs and uploads all your music. If you prefer, you can tell it to grab music from only your music folder or from multiple other folders instead.
Your music uploads in the background; you can start listening immediately, even while the files upload. How long the upload takes will vary according to the size of your collection and your bandwidth. In my case, it took more than 1 hours to upload my nearly 150 music files.
You can sign up for free to get the Google Cloud Music Player Beta at : music.google.com
Hey There Blog2life,
Along the same lines,, I don’t currently have a smart phone but I listen to music constantly on an Ipod. I have recently started using Google Music so I have all my songs backed up in the cloud. I’d like to cut the ties to Itunes and get a new music player (which I assume means a smartphone – I still currently have an old school phone).
What I am concerned with is having to be online to listen to my music, or have my music interrupted by buffering from time to time. Do smart phones have a way to store the music on them so I can listen to them without being online?
Thanks for any tips.
Thanks
Greetings, Lisa
Dear Lisa,
When you’re offline, only some of your music is available:
1. Music you’ve copied to your device. If you’re using Android version 2.1 or below, you can only listen to music you’ve copied directly to your device from your pc/other device, it doesn’t matter whether you’re online or offline.
2. Online music you’ve explicitly made available offline. The Google Play Music application caches some of your online music temporarily on your device when you play it, so you may find that some of your music is available offline even if you don’t explicitly make it available for offline listening
3. Music temporarily stored on your device. View your library of albums, artists, or playlists, >Touch Menu on your device and touch Make available offline.
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