With last week's announcements, Google made it clear that music is going to play a major roll in the services that it's rolling out in the coming months. Some are even calling Google the iTune's killer. But how will a Google music service work? This short explanation comes via Slate:
"Android will let you play all the music on your computer without syncing your hard drive to your phone…you'll do this by installing a small app on your desktop that will send your (non-copy-protected) music- whether it's in iTunes, Windows Media Player, or anywhere else – to the Internet… Once the files are online, your phone will have access to your entire music library whenever you've got an Internet connection… Even though the music doesn't live on your phone, it behaves exactly as if it does – it even includes album art. You press play and the song starts in seconds."
“You press play and the song starts in seconds.” If that’s the way it works. That’s exactly why it will never be popular. When I press play from something in my music library. I expect it to start in nanoseconds.
The major labels are never this far ahead in thinking. If they’re not letting Spotify through in the States, what makes anyone think that Google has a decent chance?
So Google recommends we all leave our computers on 24/7? How green of them.
No Neil. Once you upload your music from your hard drive to the cloud, it stays in the cloud. The Phone doesn’t sync to your hard drive. And Eric…really? You do realize what the implications are of having your full music library available in the cloud and accessible via a nicely designed mobile experience? People will disregard the latency, certainly for now,given how this totally liberates one’s music collection.
But if you upload your music on a cloud… won’t it just really overstress the servers of google? I’d imagine that people upload hundreds of gigabytes of music online for their use and I can’t really imagine how this could work. Anyone got an idea?
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"Android will let you play all the music on your computer without syncing your hard drive to your phone…you'll do this by installing a small app on your desktop that will send your (non-copy-protected) music- whether it's in iTunes, Windows Media Player, or anywhere else – to the Internet… Once the files are online, your phone will have access to your entire music library whenever you've got an Internet connection… Even though the music doesn't live on your phone, it behaves exactly as if it does – it even includes album art. You press play and the song starts in seconds."
“You press play and the song starts in seconds.”
If that’s the way it works. That’s exactly why it will never be popular. When I press play from something in my music library. I expect it to start in nanoseconds.
The major labels are never this far ahead in thinking. If they’re not letting Spotify through in the States, what makes anyone think that Google has a decent chance?
So Google recommends we all leave our computers on 24/7? How green of them.
No Neil. Once you upload your music from your hard drive to the cloud, it stays in the cloud. The Phone doesn’t sync to your hard drive.
And Eric…really? You do realize what the implications are of having your full music library available in the cloud and accessible via a nicely designed mobile experience?
People will disregard the latency, certainly for now,given how this totally liberates one’s music collection.
But if you upload your music on a cloud… won’t it just really overstress the servers of google? I’d imagine that people upload hundreds of gigabytes of music online for their use and I can’t really imagine how this could work.
Anyone got an idea?