Why is everyone so fascinated with Google Music?

[gabster21]

Every thread I read about the Galaxy Nexus not having enough storage space has the same king of replies: "Just use Google Music", "You can stream from the cloud", "Google limited the space on purpose because they want you to use Google Music", etc..

Why go through the tedious process of uploading a limited selection of songs to Google Music and keep updating it when with apps like Gmote, you can have access terabytes of music directly from your PC!

All it takes is installing the app on your phone, the server on your PC and forwarding one port to your PC and you're done.

For movies I setup an FTP on my PC and forwarded that port through my router. With ES File Explorer you can access it and stream any movie from your hard drive directly to your phone (not recommended through 3G though! ). MXPlayer for mkv, h264, etc playback works perfectly with SW acceleration!

Edit: Corrected. It's 20,000 songs not 5GB

 

[martonikaj]

5GB? You can have up to 20,000 songs on Google Music.

And I recommend it because its seamless and awesome. And doesn't take up space on the phone lol.

 

[gabster21]

5GB? You can have up to 20,000 songs on Google Music.

And I recommend it because its seamless and awesome. And doesn't take up space on the phone lol.

Ah, thought it was 5GB. 20,000 songs is plenty but you still have to upload those to "the cloud" versus just leaving them on your PC. Plus it's not officially available to anyone outside the US yet.

 

[martonikaj]

Ah, thought it was 5GB. 20,000 songs is plenty but you still have to upload those to "the cloud" versus just leaving them on your PC. Plus it's not officially available to anyone outside the US yet.

You just upload em once. In the background over time. And every time you get something new its uploaded automatically.

Not to mention that Google Music can be accessed from any web browser, where you can listen and manage everything

 

[joshnichols189]

Most people don't know how to do what you describe..

 

[zok-star]

but what happens if you have all this music in the cloud, and you have no reception/data to stream???

I still rather have space on the phone!

 

[gabster21]

Most people don't know how to do what you describe..

But I'm guessing most people in this forum do!

You just upload em once. In the background over time. And every time you get something new its uploaded automatically.

Not to mention that Google Music can be accessed from any web browser, where you can listen and manage everything

Those are nice features, automatic updates definitely helps.

 

[martonikaj]

but what happens if you have all this music in the cloud, and you have no reception/data to stream???

It auto-caches your most-played music. You can also manually pin (cache) artists/albums/playlists if you know you'll be out of service

 

[Yumunum]

If you delete a song on Google Music, it doesn't delete it on your computer. Vice versa. Sucky management, eh?

Data caps will make me think twice when wanting to listen to music. Who wants to feel limited in that way?

What if I don't have reception?

 

[inlogan]

This is how I use Google Music

1. I used the Google Music app on my computer to upload everything to the cloud. When I add new songs, they'll be uploaded automatically, or when I buy something on the phone, they will be downloaded to my computer.

2. I "pinned" all my music to my phone over wi-fi one night. It's easy to do in the app on the phone. You just select the albums or artists from the "Make Available Offline" screen and they'll download over wi-fi. There is also an option to do it over the cellular network which would be good for an album or two but might eat through your data if you're not unlimited. This means none of my music needs to stream to play on my phone. It's all cached locally. I take the subway to work every day and don't have reception all the way. This also syncs all your playlists in Google Music!

I now have my music on my computer, phone, and anywhere I want from the cloud, and I don't have to have a signal at all to listen.

If I ever get low on space on my phone because I've cached all my music, I can just untick the checkmark and it won't be locally stored anymore, but it's still in the cloud and on my computer. It's easy to pin or un-pin music from the phone.

I used to manage everything manually over USB on my Nexus One. I didn't understand how Google Music could help me, but it finally clicked on how I could use it to work for me easily.

 

[republitarian]

1. I used the Google Music app on my computer to upload everything to the cloud. When I add new songs, they'll be uploaded automatically, or when I buy something on the phone, they will be downloaded to my computer.

2. I "pinned" all my music to my phone over wi-fi one night. It's easy to do in the app on the phone. You just select the albums or artists from the "Make Available Offline" screen and they'll download over wi-fi. There is also an option to do it over the cellular network which would be good for an album or two but might eat through your data if you're not unlimited. This means none of my music needs to stream to play on my phone. It's all cached locally. I take the subway to work every day and don't have reception all the way. This also syncs all your playlists in Google Music!

I now have my music on my computer, phone, and anywhere I want from the cloud, and I don't have to have a signal at all to listen.

If I ever get low on space on my phone because I've cached all my music, I can just untick the checkmark and it won't be locally stored anymore, but it's still in the cloud and on my computer. It's easy to pin or un-pin music from the phone.

I used to manage everything manually over USB on my Nexus One. I didn't understand how Google Music could help me, but it finally clicked on how I could use it to work for me easily.

Agreed in all aspects +1

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App

 

[hotleadsingerguy]

I have about 30GB of music in Google Music lol you're not limited at all. I think that's somewhere around 5,500 songs...so I have *plenty* of room to grow.

 

[flakz0r]

7100 songs/45Gb here, GMusic rules!

 

[lathanub]

It's only available in the United States? Darn... time to get a VPN set up? Haha. This is the same problem I have with Google Voice.

All of these wonderful things to be using but are unable to due to location. Why must we be so behind in Australia?!

 

[kinggheedora]

1: Because people want to access their music from more places than just at home.
2: Google music is easier to use and set up than setting up your own music server, vpn, etc
3. Not everyone has a music server or wants to set one up

"Why buy a car from Toyota if you can just buy the parts and built it yourself?!"

 

[[GO]Bobster]

have to say GMusic rox! anywhere in the world, my music at the press of a button!

 

[DDM123]

My Google Music account has about 12,500 songs in it, which is about 90GB worth. For a free service, that's amazing. Also, it let me download/pin music while I was vacationing in Italy, so it's not totally US only.

 

[sohoxda]

Out of the US

There is a trick to sign up for Google music if you are outside of the US. Just install an application called, HotShield and then sign up. This way, your IP is recognized as coming from the US.
Anyways, the idea of using Google music is to store your music on the cloud so you can play all your music from your phone, computer, friend's computer and so on without storing your music locally on your computer.

I have a problem when I tried to play one of the song from Google music. I can see the progress bar of the music playing but I don't hear the song. Does anyone have the solution?

 

[HideYoKids]

Meh, I'll eat up anything Google releases. I love it all /fanboyism

 

[Dmw017]

1. I used the Google Music app on my computer to upload everything to the cloud. When I add new songs, they'll be uploaded automatically, or when I buy something on the phone, they will be downloaded to my computer.

2. I "pinned" all my music to my phone over wi-fi one night. It's easy to do in the app on the phone. You just select the albums or artists from the "Make Available Offline" screen and they'll download over wi-fi. There is also an option to do it over the cellular network which would be good for an album or two but might eat through your data if you're not unlimited. This means none of my music needs to stream to play on my phone. It's all cached locally. I take the subway to work every day and don't have reception all the way. This also syncs all your playlists in Google Music!

I now have my music on my computer, phone, and anywhere I want from the cloud, and I don't have to have a signal at all to listen.

If I ever get low on space on my phone because I've cached all my music, I can just untick the checkmark and it won't be locally stored anymore, but it's still in the cloud and on my computer. It's easy to pin or un-pin music from the phone.

I used to manage everything manually over USB on my Nexus One. I didn't understand how Google Music could help me, but it finally clicked on how I could use it to work for me easily.

lmao that whole thing about the cache/pinning is basically having the songs ON your phone .. which is the counterargument here XD yeah we can put our songs onto the phone too, but we need to use a usb cable but its 10x faster than wirelessly lol

not that im against GMusic lol, i just hate that it eats up my data like crazy and i cant listen to **** if theres not a clear signal lol. However I find the equalizer on the app pretty good, is in fair competition with PowerAmp believe it or not... some songs sound better on Gmusic; and yes i am pretty good with the EQ so thats not it.