Google Music

No matching here. Pointed it at my iTunes and it only managed to upload about 150 tracks in a few hours. I checked and pretty much all the songs are available on the Play Store. All tagged properly too.
 
Dear Google. If I wanted to listen to your crappy kiddy-friendly edited versions of records, that's what I would have bought. Give me the proper version!

:p
 
Ok here's something I can't figure out....

I upload an album. I open said album on my phone with Google Music. Play the first track. Expect to hear the second track..........................brb 1 min................................omg wow while typing this out it made me realise the shuffle option was always on.
 
Anyone bought albums that haven't appeared in your catalogue? 2 of mine haven't appeared and I reported them to Google over a week ago and have heard nothing back. No apology, no refund, nothing. Customer service appears to be very low of their list and it's left a very bitter taste in the mouth.
 
Have just uploaded 2.2k songs.

The first 1.5k went pretty fast, so I guess the scan and match is working and it uploads what it can match first, then manually uploads the rest.

I made sure my collection was complete and had full metadata and album art before uploading, to avoid having to organise on google music and it seems to have worked pretty well. No errors that I've found so far.

I'm pretty impressed by the service, and have been wanting to move my music to the cloud for a while now. This has given me the excuse to organise my media, back it up and free up vital storage space, while giving me the added bonus of synced collections across all devices.

Now if only google would start a spotify-like service where I can stream anything I don't have in my library for a subscription fee..
 
yer_averagejoe said:
Have just uploaded 2.2k songs.

The first 1.5k went pretty fast, so I guess the scan and match is working and it uploads what it can match first, then manually uploads the rest.

I made sure my collection was complete and had full metadata and album art before uploading, to avoid having to organise on google music and it seems to have worked pretty well. No errors that I've found so far.

I'm pretty impressed by the service, and have been wanting to move my music to the cloud for a while now. This has given me the excuse to organise my media, back it up and free up vital storage space, while giving me the added bonus of synced collections across all devices.

Now if only google would start a spotify-like service where I can stream anything I don't have in my library for a subscription fee..
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How did you sort all your metadata, some good software?
 
rogueblade said:
^f-that, I will never pay to steam music I don't own
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Each to their own but I don't think the £5 a month I currently pay isn't bad at all for discovering music I don't own yet and getting unlimited (ad-free) playback from just about any artist. I'd just prefer the two services combined.

Bobmunkhouse said:
How did you sort all your metadata, some good software?
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I used MediaMonkey and went through album by album. Didn't take too long and now it's done, it's done :)
 
Trying to find the genuine version of a song can be a pain in the arse I've noticed. There are so many copycats, that don't declare if they are the original or imitators :-( (This isn't confined to just GM either).
 
I've found google music is working better now, especially on newer iOs devices, turning on the HTML5 player seems to result on less songs skipping halfway thru. My 2nd gen iPod touch still doesn't work that well, but it is getting on a bit now...
Bobmunkhouse said:
How did you sort all your metadata, some good software?
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Try Musicbrainz Picard, it does a lot of it automatically.
 
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I've uploaded about 4.4K tracks (from about 6.5 in my itunes folder - although some of these are undoubtedly duplicates/unsupported formats)

So far I absolutely love the service - it's allowing me to explore my whole collection (or most of it) in a way that I haven't for years (due to a hatred of itunes etc) allowing me to rediscover MANY things I forgot I had.

The biggest gripe I have so far is that you can't drag and merge albums that have for some reason been split up or duplicated by the upload/matching process. It's a pretty minor gripe though considering the strength of the service fundamentals.

I sorely wish I'd ripped everything at 320kps in my yout... *ahem* earlier digital life.

Most of my collection is unfortunately in 128-192kps with only about 10% at the right level. Could be worse though and I still have all the CD's!

EDIT: I also highly recommend the Music Plus for Google Play Music Chrome extension by Adam Pash available to install here
 
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Is there any way of editing the metadata and album covers of things that have already been uploaded that isn't browser based?

I'm finding making changes can be hit and miss, an half the time album covers don't upload. :(
 
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