![]() Why not charge?Īs someone hunting for a cloud music solution, I’d almost prefer that Google offer a paid option for Google Music, which would give me full access to all of my tracks and the freedom to download them where I please, with the option to specify how the files are formatted and such. To touch on one last issue, the interface of the Google Music app for Android is improved with Android 4.0, but it’s still quite unpolished when compared to the included music players in Windows Phone and iPhone. You can choose to “Pin for offline” any album, artist, or track, but those songs are not available outside of Google Music and there is no download dialog for them, so you don’t know if they are actually “pinned” to your phone or not. You cannot download unrestricted Google Music songs to an Android device either. Music labels may have good reason to force users onto a PC before they can download tracks, but it’s harmful to the entire experience. I realize that this is a free service, and that Google has to deal with a lot of backward thinking music labels, but these limitations are confusing. I imagine if I let Google Music run straight and kept my computer on at night, it might take about a month to upload my tracks, maybe longer.Ĭertain track features, like song ratings (1-5 stars) are not pulled in and converted into Google’s Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down system either, meaning hardcore users will have to re-rank their music. I don’t have a particularly slow connection either. I’ve been uploading my collection off and on since the service launched in June 2011, and have still only uploaded about 7,900 songs out of 12,000+. It seems to upload incredibly slowly, no matter what you do. The software is a bandwidth hog, even when its upload speeds are dialed down. On top of these troubles, Google’s Music Manager uploading has not operated well since launch. Moreover, it should be possible to upload tracks from an Android phone or tablet. This is useful, but we hope Google adds an auto-download feature that automatically downloads tracks to a PC when it’s added to Google Music. The Manager does have one good feature: You can choose to download only the songs that were added since your last mass download. That means you’ll have to download thousands of items to get a single song. If you download an album, but have already downloaded one of the songs on that album twice, that song will be skipped and you will be prompted to use the Music Manager to get the song. Google has no ownership of it, yet I am only allowed to download it once. ![]() ![]() This album (above) was purchased and downloaded from AmazonMP3, and uploaded to Google Music. Google announced this limitation for music purchased through Google, but it seems to apply to all music, even the music that you own and have uploaded to Google Music. If your computer is acting up and you don’t finish a download, well, too bad you’ll have to use your last download to get your songs. There are options to download tracks from, but you can only download each song or album two times. Ranking all 16 iOS versions, from worst to best ![]() How to cancel Spotify Premium on your desktop or iOS device How to download YouTube videos on PC, iOS, Android, and Mac ![]()
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