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Old 05-10-2011, 01:31 PM
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Google Music Beta

http://music.google.com

Get your invite.

Sorry...no love for teh peeps.

No downloads at this time.....just uploads of your tunes to the cloud...20k songs of your own music.
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Signed up earlier for my invite. Going to give it a try while it is free....hopefully it stays that way as well.

Now does your music have to be legit and signed or can you upload anything?
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Is this for Android only? I'm guessing there's no use for this if I don't have an Android phone.
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Originally Posted by alex2364
Is this for Android only? I'm guessing there's no use for this if I don't have an Android phone.
Web based application can be accessed from your phone, tablet, or another computer.
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Your phone has to have Flash according to engadget. I wonder if Skyfire on iPhone will work. Probably not since that only transcodes videos.
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Nice find. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by CCColtsicehockey
Now does your music have to be legit and signed or can you upload anything?
That's what I'm wondering too.
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This the same exact thing as Amazon's?
Old 05-10-2011, 03:56 PM
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uhh... 20,000 songs???? what do they get converted to, 32kbps??
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^^ Storage is cheap.
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thats just nutty. im gonna upload all my favorite stuff there. itll be nice to have even from a backup POV
Old 05-10-2011, 04:20 PM
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^^ You cannot download them.
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Originally Posted by Moog-Type-S
^^ You cannot download them.
:ghey:
Old 05-10-2011, 04:31 PM
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Originally Posted by srika
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Sorry, You cannot download that either.

Any other questions?
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for you, no.
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Jamie Rosenberg , direct of digital content for Android, answered a question from a reporter about whether Google was afraid that music studios would take issue with Google allowing its users to move music digitally across the Internet. He responded by saying that the service is "completely legal," because it allows people to store only music that they own legally. Rosenberg admitted that Google had wanted to offer music labels an opportunity to sell music to Google users through the cloud service, but that the labels had asked for certain conditions that Google couldn't accept.

He wouldn't discuss details of the negotiations, but he emphasized Google's commitment to protecting the rights of music producers.

"We very much respect copyright," he said. "And we designed this service so that you can use your own personal music collection out of respect for those who create the music."

When asked how Google would police content stored on the music service to make sure it's legal, Google's Andy Rubin stepped in to answer the question. He said that Google will respond to rights holders who believe that unauthorized music is being stored on Google's service.


http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20...#ixzz1LzLUUgA3
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Like they'll be able to figure out what's legal or not.
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Clearly Google wanted to get their cloud entertainment service out the gate before Apple does so with the next gen iTunes.
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Is it worth uploading my 25000 songs. Will I get my google account suspended?!
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Originally Posted by hornyleprechaun
Is it worth uploading my 25000 songs. Will I get my google account suspended?!
You're limited to 20,000. If you stay under the limit, and I'm sure you won't have a choice, I don't see why your account would be suspended.

Do you even have an invite yet?
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signed up for it... impatiently waiting...
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Originally Posted by GIBSON6594
You're limited to 20,000. If you stay under the limit, and I'm sure you won't have a choice, I don't see why your account would be suspended.

Do you even have an invite yet?
No invite, but I requested it.
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requested it! I have android so lets wait and see!
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Originally Posted by GIBSON6594
You're limited to 20,000. If you stay under the limit, and I'm sure you won't have a choice, I don't see why your account would be suspended.

Do you even have an invite yet?
I know where and how to get one
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Me too!
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Be careful, webizens: Anyone offering you a free Google Music Beta invite is setting you up for a scam.

The beta doesn’t let current users give out invitations to their friends, so no one has spare invites to give you. That includes Mashable writers, your friends online, and any website claiming to be giving away Google Music invites.

Any person or website claiming to be “giving away” Google Music invites is lying, a fact we’ve just confirmed with Google representatives. Because of the way invites are handed out, they’re linked to specific Google Accounts. In other words, one person can’t request an invite and pass it on; the invite has to be requested and accepted by the same Google Account.

So far, we’ve seen all kinds of scam and spam out there around Google Music, from CPA surveys to data gathering apps that prompt you to enter personal information. We should be more surprised at the alacrity of these scam-hounds, but with every great product comes great potential for fraud. Free iPod, anybody?

If you see links out there for Google Music invites, don’t click them. Don’t tweet them, and don’t post them on Facebook or anywhere else. The only link you need is Music.Google.com, the official website of Google Music.
http://mashable.com/2011/05/10/google-music-scam/
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Originally Posted by nbennettksu
I know where and how to get one
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I wonder how long these invites are going to take to get
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^ IIRC, the wave and voice invites took a week or so.
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Still waiting on mine. I know two people that got it and one doesnt even know what he got!
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I think it took months for me to get my voice invite. At least now with supportspace I now have a use for it.
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At this point, I don't even know what part of my music collection is legal or not. I've ripped mp3s from CDs going back years, as well as stuff I downloaded from the Napster days, things from blogs, and it's all mixed up - I don't exactly organize my stuff into legal/illegal categories. The fact that there's a possibility that I can be messed with, after uploading 20k mp3s, is still something that I'm concerned about.
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It's a trap!
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Darn I was hoping to be able to play around with it soon. Guess I will have to keep checking for the next month if I get the email since gmail isn't my primary account.
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Apparently some people are starting to receive there invites however I am still waiting on mine
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What does the RIAA think about this?
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Been wondering the same thing


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