Google Play Music

partan

Has anyone used this? Ive got all my music in itunes on my laptop, and was thinkin of uploading to google play so I can access it all on my new shiny nexus 7. Question is, when i upload it to google, will I still have it in itunes on my laptop? simple question I know, but im a bit thick sometimes.

cheers

DCFC79

Can you not just copy your music from the itunes folder to your nexus ?

partan

i could, but i'm trying out what the nexus can do and fancied trying this songs-up-in-the-clouds thing. Just didnt fancy losing my collection to the clouds if I !!!! it up...

S0litaire

Yup

You can point Google music upload program to look at your iTunes folder and it will copy everything up to Google's cloud ^_^

You can save a max of 20,000 songs.

so you'll have mobile access to music as well as your iTunes. If you leave it like that, every time you add a track via iTunes it will get synced to Google music servers for you,.

DCFC79

S0litaire wrote: »

Yup

You can point Google music upload program to look at your iTunes folder and it will copy everything up to Google's cloud ^_^

You can save a max of 20,000 songs.

so you'll have mobile access to music as well as your iTunes. If you leave it like that, every time you add a track via iTunes it will get synced to Google music servers for you,.

Didn't know you could do that.

Thanks

S0litaire

it's called google music manager.

all it does is check specified folders on your PC (that you tell it to look at) and it will automatically upload any music it finds to your Google play account.

You can also use the same program to download music from Google Music to your PC.

partan

S0litaire wrote: »

Yup

You can point Google music upload program to look at your iTunes folder and it will copy everything up to Google's cloud ^_^

You can save a max of 20,000 songs.

so you'll have mobile access to music as well as your iTunes. If you leave it like that, every time you add a track via iTunes it will get synced to Google music servers for you,.

cheers S0litaire! i'm goin to give it a bash, am well impressed with the nexus, already tried out google drive & findin that well useful too.

just need to find a way for it to connect to interweb when i'm offshore now as the wireless system there is android unfriendly

S0litaire

how far off shore?

You could pick up a cheap android PAYG phone and take out one of their cheap "all-you-can-eat" data tariffs either monthly or payg

Since it's an android device tethered to another android device it sneaks past Three's "anti-teathering" firewall so you don't need to pay the higher rate for "The One Plan" that lets you tether to any device...


Just DON'T tell Three you'll be using it for tethering ^_^ you'll be fine! lol

bod1467

Thanks for the info in this thread - I've just setup my wife's Nexus to link to songs uploaded to Google Play Music. (i.e. I've uploaded some songs to her Play account).

partan

S0litaire wrote: »

how far off shore?

You could pick up a cheap android PAYG phone and take out one of their cheap "all-you-can-eat" data tariffs either monthly or payg

Since it's an android device tethered to another android device it sneaks past Three's "anti-teathering" firewall so you don't need to pay the higher rate for "The One Plan" that lets you tether to any device...


Just DON'T tell Three you'll be using it for tethering ^_^ you'll be fine! lol

Boat in Dutch waters just now, but could go anywhere, so a mobile contract might not be ideal. We do have wireless internet onboard, but to connect to it requires messing about with proxy settings and no-one can get it to work with apple or android devices.


Got my Google tunes working now though, am delighted with that. Now for some Bluetooth speakers maybe :)