The service offers the user the chance to upload up to 20,000 songs for storage in the cloud which can then be streamed anywhere through a variety of linked devices including a browser, Android mobile phone, tablet, pc etc. It's a terrific feature and one that has been long-awaited here in the UK.
The service works smoothly with a small piece of software downloading to your pc to scan your collection and either match a song with Google's own existing library or upload ones that do not. I have over 70 gig of music but am still well below the 20,000 song limit so the potential free storage is massive.
This then enabled me try it out today by hooking up my Nexus S to an external speaker and stream a number of songs over wi-fi from the cloud...brilliant! All my music wherever I am...as long as I have a data connection.
I have little doubt this service will become the principle route for my future music consumption...good job Google!
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As part of the Chromebook Pilot programme, even though I'm in the UK I've been using this since it was first being tested and I can personally vouch for how useful it is - especially the last.fm scrobbling! Any ideas if the MP3 store is open to us yet?
Hi Josh - yes I believe it is now...about time too. I'm loving what I am seeing from Google Music so far!
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