Google MusicBeta........anyone using it?

goat-head · Jul 9, 2011

Anybody using the new GoogleMusicBeta? It's super awesome man, but it has many little quirks and curious happenings at random. Especially when using the Random All feature! I just searched Fascinate forums and saw no mention of it, so I thought "Hmmmmmm, lets see if we can fish out some users and maybe get some answers?"
First off, you got to request an invite to use it. Just Google "Google Music Beta" and you'll get your invite in a few days, maybe a week or so? Then you upload your tunes, (up to 20,000 I believe)and you can stream your entire music library from anywhere, for free .....for real!!!
I was just curious if it just acts weird with Fascinate or what? Other a few quirks, it's super cool and I think if you get in on it, while it's free. Then when/if they do get it all ironed out we'll all get to keep the finished product, no charge!

katsimbris · Jul 10, 2011

Yeah, I'm using it too and love it, even with the few quirks (on the"shuffle all" feature), usually repeating the first song without knowing it, and having to hit skip/fast forward.

Here's hoping it stays free when it gets out of beta. Otherwise, I'll have to keep hoping that Pogo Plugs interface improves and that my Mac can maintain being on for long periods of time.

Mike K

NancyB · Jul 10, 2011

I use it and love it, too. Do you think they might charge??

NancyB · Jul 10, 2011

Do you know how to get Music Manager to RE-download an iTunes library? I somehow deleted all the songs. :thinking:

tcope · Jul 11, 2011

NancyB said:
I use it and love it, too. Do you think they might charge??

I think they already do... for additional storage. I pay for 20GB storage for my Picasa account. It appears that this is good all across Google services. Right now GM only allows 250MB storage.

I LOVE this pricing plan! It's easy, clean and cheap. No need to pay a little hear and pay a little there... just one payment for storage and I can use it how ever I want across all my Google Accounts.

Edit: Let me correct that. No limit now (the 250MB limit is per song) but the way my account looks, it looks like they will probably change it to allow so much space for free and then charge for additional storage space as I mentioned above. My 20GB shows up for space but my account always reads 0% used. I suspect that will change.

tcope · Jul 11, 2011

One thing I don't like about the Android app is it's hard to go back to the main menu from the random play section. It usually ends up existing the app completely.

goat-head · Jul 20, 2011

When I go to library options, click "all music", should be streaming right? Well, all of a sudden it says it's playing, or trying to play and I get nothin' ? If I click "offline Only", it just plays the songs on my SD? Was workin' fine for me for a while, and I haven't really changed anything on my phone lately, so I don't know what's up? Anyone having similar issues?
I really like this app and I was using it all the time, for quite a while(well, since I got my invite a few weeks ago) Any comments or advice for a fix would be greatly appreciated?!?!?! ...... :mad:

Thanx for your time!!

AirPirate · Jul 23, 2011

The big elephant in the room is Bandwidth Caps. I'm grandfathered at Verizon with "unlimited" data, as long as I don't change my contract, but sooner or later, I will be capped liked everyone else. How do all of you think this will affect our use of innovative software like Google Music? I pretty much only use G Music during my long commute in the car, and I really like it, but I'm chewing up 3G data all the while. Sorry for the slight topic shift, but I can't help wondering how we will cope with this in the future. Any thoughts?

jamesnmandy · Jul 23, 2011

I use it but it eats through battery like no other compared to playing music files stored on my sdcard.

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