Google Music

I've just cancelled my spotify subscription for google all access. I'm loving the fact you can sync your iTunes library with GMusic and that with such ease. Also it might just be me but I think the playback quality on Google has the edge over Spotify.
 
Here is a question for you.

I have just built a new PC and I have transferred to the hard drive the same folder of flacs that I originally used to upload all my music a year ago. I have downloaded the Goggle Music App for my PC and added this Flac folder.

Google Music started scanning this folder and uploading loads of songs so I stopped it for the time being. Will I end up with loads of duplicate songs in the cloud if it carries on scanning the folder? Or will it ignore most the files in the folder that I already have in the cloud?

Cheers.
 
Nope!

I had a problem with the Music Manager program on my PC a month ago!, it wouldn't verify my Password (I have 2-step Verification on my Google Account) so I uninstalled it and re-installed, got it logged in, and set up to monitor my Music folder.

I have 18460 tracks up on GMusic and it started re-syncing/uploading them again, I didn't notice until it was on about 6,000 tracks uploaded! :eek:

I checked through the online interface and it hadn't actually uploaded anything, or duplicated anything!, I think it just refreshes whats up there!! :)
 
Snax said:
I prefer spotify on my PC and Google music on my Phone. Spotify has a better EDM catalogue too. On the other hand, on phones, Google music downloads and caches 20 random songs that you may never have heard of so that regardless of signal you can have an hour or so of radio.
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Whats EDM mean?

Which service is better for older music like from the 80's/90s?
 
With the recent (ish) update to the mobile app to give greater playlist/radio station options, how would people describe how they use Google Music? In other words, have you found a 'system' that works for you?

- I add all my music I've ever owned or liked to 'My Library'.
- I use the 'Thumbs up' playlist as my current go-to shuffle playlist. I listen to this about 40% of the time. I periodically add everything in 'Thumbs up' to 'My Library' as a kind of backup (in case I'm sick of hearing it atm but want to keep it on record somewhere).
- I use 'I'm feeling lucky' about 30% of the time and create genre playlists based on the stuff Google recommends.
- Remaining 30% of use is on those genre specific playlists which I keep adding to over time.

I really like how Google Music is finding me genres that I didn't know I liked before. For example, I've discovered I'm really into 80s post-disco/Boogie and synthpop, and I didn't own ANY before I started using the 'I'm feeling lucky' radio :D
 
I love Google music but 99% of time just listen to 1 of 5 playlists I manually create
I never thumbs or down stuff in any products as I don't trust their algorithms.
If I thumbs down a song why would I even have it in the first place?
 
Coldplay suck anyway :P

Yes it defeats the point of All Access but I can see more artists going this way or at least the labels forcing them into doing it this way.
 
I hope they work out a sustainable model for streaming. It suits me really well but I can see how it can't be that great for new artists in particular.
 
Still not on deezer either :(

I think the only sustainable way forward for music streaming is to have a similar model to Netflix i.e. my Wife and I can both stream music on our phones at the same time for a more reasonable £5 or so.

I'm on a Deezer deal at the moment where I got 3 months for 99p but it's due to end soon and I'll be cancelling my subscription. It's quite simply too expensive, If both my wife and I wanted to subscribe it would cost us £240 per year which is way more than we'd ever spend on music that we'd get to keep at the end of it.

Sure initially I had great fun listening to new stuff and searching out long forgotten tunes from my youth but this soon past and I ended up just listening to bands I'd usually listen to. I think if they dropped the price and restrictions a little they'd increase their customer base 10 fold. Most people I know just use Youtube then download the stuff they like and only a couple of my friends actually pay for music.

I am a Netflix Subscriber because I believe they've got it right, Just need a Music streaming sight to get it right now :)
 
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