Google Music

[Colin]

OK, it's been a week of constant uploading (day and night) and I've almost got all my music uploaded to Google's cloud service. Whew, 7500 songs, many ripped at 320K took a LONG time. Thank god I didn't go lossless! Still, I feel better that I have a de facto back up in place for my MP3s. Anyone else using this?

[CRaZee]

I have 26000+ songs.. most at 256 (my play library)... but I also have the original rips in lossless for most of them. I have them backed up to four different hard drives as i don't want to lose them.

Copying that many to the "cloud" is not something I am interested in doing... although I guess being able to access them anywhere is nice. I will just take my Ipod, laptop, or an external drive if I have to.

hope you have fun with it though....

[Colin]

^^ I have mine backed up in two places as well. Still, I wanted to get them saved out of the house but don't want to pay for Carbonite or Mozy at this time. I'm trying to find some kind of service (hopefully free) that could sync and back up my "My Docs" folder. This way, music is safe, docs are safe, email is gmail and safe, and all I have to worry about are video files.

[CRaZee]

yes.. know what you mean! I have mine backed up at work also.. usually on two or three different systems (since I do IT, I usually have a lot of hardware available). Plus my GF has a copy also on her system. A online solution would be nice.. but just crazy.. I would need a almost a full Terabyte to get it all the music backed up.. and then I would want to do graphics and docs also.. would need 2 or 3 terabytes.... ouch!

[Ludercrz]

is google cloud like Dropbox? i never heard of this before.

[CRaZee]

new service they are testing.. google "google music beta"

[Colin]

Originally Posted by Ludercrz

is google cloud like Dropbox? i never heard of this before.

Google Docs is much like Dropbox. However, here at work they block Dropbox, Box.net and Evernote. Google Music is an invitation service that allows you to upload up to 20,000 songs for free. Interestingly even though I've got all the songs up on Google, I can't play them from work since Flash is also blocked. Sheesh, you'd think they are trying to encourage us to actually do work!?

[VTEC Mini]

What is this stuff? I only know of the Apple Istore. Fill me in please!

[Zodiak]

If anyone needs it, PM your gmail email address and I can send out invites.

[MattB]

Originally Posted by CRaZee

I have 26000+ songs

Why have this much music? You can't possibly listen to all of it. If you went through your entire playlist without stopping (at 4 minutes per song) it would take you 72 days before you finished. If you only listened for two hours per day, it would take you two and a half years before you were complete.

I assume the logic is something like 'like song -> torrent artist's entire discography'.