Google music now live

[ReynardMuldrake]

Google's cloud based Music site is live. Supposedly you can upload up to 20,000 of your own songs to play from anywhere. They are supposed to be adding artist support where you can buy songs like iTunes but they are still in negotiation.

Listen anywhere, even offline.
You can get to your personal music collection at home or on the go. Listen from the web or any enabled device with the Music app available from Android Market. Not online? No problem. The songs you've recently played will automatically be available offline. You can also select the specific albums, artists and playlists you want to have available when you're not connected.

Stay in sync, without the hassle.
Spend more time listening to your music and less time managing it. Once your music is online, it's always available. Playlists are automatically kept in sync, and you don't have to worry about cables, file transfers, or running out of storage space.

Your collection, now in one place.
Upload your personal music collection to a single library, even if it's scattered across multiple computers. You can upload music files from any folder or add your iTunes® library and all of your playlists. And when you add new music to your computer, it can be automatically added to your music collection online.

Mix it up.
Create your own custom playlists with just a few clicks. Or use Instant Mix to automatically build new playlists of songs from your collection that go great together. All the playlists you create and all the changes you make to them are automatically available everywhere your music is.

Request an invite here: http://music.google.com/

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by DaFace

The one feature that seems like it could end up being pretty big is that artists (of any size) can now upload their music to a Google Plus page and sell songs directly to people. That could be pretty cool for local bands whose music is hard to find.

Sounds like a shitty version of Bandcamp.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

Sounds like a shitty version of Bandcamp.

Yeah, perhaps. I think having it integrated into Plus gives it a much greater reach, though. Assuming Plus catches on I guess.

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Yeah, perhaps. I think having it integrated into Plus gives it a much greater reach, though. Assuming Plus catches on I guess.

It would cut out a middleman, yeah. It's really easy if you're a musician to post a Bandcamp link on your Twitter or Facebook, but it'd be even easier (provided G+ becomes a viable thing) to find out about an album on + and get the music without ever leaving +.