google music beta

[LocoRon]

So yeah, I finally received my invite today! (I had signed up a few hours after it was announced.)

Indeed, you can store 20,000 songs--NOT 20 GB. To be clear, my ~15k song collection is probably over 80 GB. So, yeah. There's a huge difference between saying 20k songs and 20 GB of songs.

I just hope the prices are reasonable, when it comes time to pay the piper. :/

[Backnblack]

Small print after I requested invite: "Music Beta is free for a limited time"

I assume once they have your music that they will start phasing out the free and eventually put a price on it. Though with a Google's biz model, I imagine it will be a reasonable price.

They only have a copy.....

[monkeydog]

So yeah, I finally received my invite today! (I had signed up a few hours after it was announced.)

Indeed, you can store 20,000 songs--NOT 20 GB. To be clear, my ~15k song collection is probably over 80 GB. So, yeah. There's a huge difference between saying 20k songs and 20 GB of songs.

I just hope the prices are reasonable, when it comes time to pay the piper. :/

Same here, got my invite yesterday and let uploads run all night. I'm currently half way through uploading my entire 60gb collection.

There's just one thing I noticed and researched to confirm... it converts .flac into a 320k mp3. Not that big of a deal and completely understandable... imagine all the storage that would be required if they stored .flac files. Just a single album can be 1 to 2gb in .flac

[xtremecanefan]

Small print after I requested invite: "Music Beta is free for a limited time"

I assume once they have your music that they will start phasing out the free and eventually put a price on it. Though with a Google's biz model, I imagine it will be a reasonable price.

I would imagine it will be like gmail, X gb free and you can pay for more.

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[acidbrn]

Is anyone else thats received the beta having problems getting it to run on their phones? I have it on my Moto Droid and its not showing up any of my songs. My phone is also rooted not sure if thats the problem. If any of you have had any problems how did you fix it? Ive also updated the app, uninstalled updates, rebooted, and etc.... still no luck.

[dberthia]

I was having the same issue on my rooted Moto Droid. I completely uninstalled the Music app and installed it again, and that seemed to do the trick. I also noticed when I first installed it that the "Settings" option was nowhere to be found. After the uninstall/install that came back as well.

[takeshi]

One of the other mods said it comes with 20,000 songs! Now I don't see how they can possibly do that, but I don't know why he would say that if it wasn't true.

People had similar disbelief when gmail first showed up offering massive amounts of storage.

Small print after I requested invite: "Music Beta is free for a limited time"

I assume once they have your music that they will start phasing out the free and eventually put a price on it. Though with a Google's biz model, I imagine it will be a reasonable price.

It's just boilerplate.

[that_1_guy]

does anyone no of plans for an actual computer program, not just web based, google music player or something?

[xandor]

I was having the same issue on my rooted Moto Droid. I completely uninstalled the Music app and installed it again, and that seemed to do the trick. I also noticed when I first installed it that the "Settings" option was nowhere to be found. After the uninstall/install that came back as well.

This fixed on my Droid 2 as well. Didn't need to do anything for my Acer tablet.

Only problem is the desktop app having problems with a couple of songs.

[gonnadie4thegov]

My music manager program on my computer is just sitting at 7909 of 7923 songs.....