Hundreds of Free Songs For Google Music
Google Music is out of Beta and available to everyone, no invitation needed. More on that in the next post.
Google has also opened a Music Store
There's tons of free and exclusive music available in the store. All purchased tracks (including free ones) are available for download as 320kbps MP3s. They are also automatically stored for free on Google's servers so you can stream or download them to different devices.
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anotherhiggins
added 6 months ago
I've been using Google Music for several months and love it. I still use other services like Spotify, too. But Google Music is awesome because I can stream my music to my phone FOR FREE (as opposed to the $10/month that Spotify wants).
Rather than allotting you a few GB of free space, it allows you to store up to 20,000 of your personal tracks to Google's servers for free, regardless of how much space that takes. You want to upload In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida 20,000 times? Go for it.
It also allows you to upload several file formats including FLAC and OGG.
And it's wicked-easy to download songs or entire albums/playlists for off-line playback on your phone for when you don't have signal. (Take that, Apple!)
@anotherhiggins: I'm going to have to give this a try. I love Spotify but I am not going to throw down for a monthly fee, either.
How often do ads show up and how long do they last?
@dreamyvelvet: There are no ads. It's your music, you play as much of it as you like.
Awesome!!!
I downloaded about 30 songs and uploaded them to my Amazon Cloud drive. Google's got better free stuff, but Amazon is more convenient and has a wider selection of paid songs :-P
This is the best selection I have ever seen for legitimate free songs.
Check out http://magnifier.blogspot.com/
They spotlight new free tracks available for Google Music. One click and it adds the track(s) to your account.
Seems dumb you can't add them all at once.
Also it's dumb it lets you add it over and over not telling you that you already have it.
Also it appears broken I was able to add some songs but now nothing happens it says I'm buying it for free but never appears in my library.
@thedoctor: That's where the last link in my OP points to - the one that says Tons of additional songs available in 16 different genres.
@anotherhiggins: I stream Spotify to my Android for free with no problems. It is just limited to like 20 hours a month.
@dreamyvelvet: yet, there are no ads yet...it is google,they added ads to YouTube.
great deal! looks promising i will def give a try
@mrsmoofy: Respondiny to myself. Seems IE doesn't work correctly. FireFox is better but its still buggy as well. Best off using Chrome
Thank you for posting this!!!! Gonna check it out when I get home.. :)
@segafanalways: Link or it didn't happen.
From Spotify's site:
"Music on your cell phone
For Premium users: you can wirelessly sync all your favourite Spotify playlists to your phone and listen Offline. Or go online and stream millions of tracks in the Spotify library. It’s access all areas for you.
For all other users: if you have an iPhone or an Android, you can help yourself to the Spotify Mobile app and wirelessly sync all your own music files. There’s no access to the Spotify music library or Offline mode, but you can log in to Spotify and search for tracks."
Premium membership is $10/month. Am I missing something?
Couldn't get it to work with Firefox - when I tried to buy a song, I just kept getting a prompt to sign in over and over again.
Chrome worked fine, though. However, it wasn't intuitive figuring out how to accept the terms of use - you have to click through the link to each document, then scroll down to the bottom and click "Accept". After doing that, I had to cancel out of the "Accept the TOS" prompt and buy the first song again. After that, it seems to be working fine.
Been using Music Beta for months, I like it, it did take a few days to load up 17K songs to their servers, but ever since then it's easy as pie.
I've stopped using the android app though, it has potential but needed more details in the UI (*as of 2 months ago when I uninstalled it) and w/ a 32gb card I don't need all of my library available on my phone. But, I am uber happy to know it's there when I need it at work or out and about.
Very excited that Mother Google is getting it's fingers into more of my daily life :)
@unclerummy: Having the same problem but no access to chrome here at work, I'll try that when I get home.
@anotherhiggins: I have a DROID X and this is all I did.
I downloaded the Spotify App:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.spotify.mobile.android.ui&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5zcG90aWZ5Lm1vYmlsZS5hbmRyb2lkLnVpIl0.
Then I opened the App and searched for the band I was looking for which happened to Be Disturbed's album The Lost Children and Papa Roach's Album Metamorphosis Clicked the Album clicked add to playlist and clicked create a new playlist.
(On a side note this was 2 weeks ago) I just tried to open it up now and it says it is premium only so I either had a special trial or they recently changed their policy.
@unclerummy: I'm on FF 8.0 right now. No problems. Are you running any addins that might be conflicting?
hmmm. Stevie Ray Vaughn is listed under country? I didn't know I liked country music ;)
I had to create a Google Checkout account, which required a credit card number, but then all was well. I found some worthwhile tracks.
Uploading FLAC would have been a feature to switch me from Amazon, but come to find out it actually converts it to 320kbit/s MP3's, it doesn't actually store the FLAC files.
It even converts the OGG to 320kbit/s MP3's, which is bad since OGG is already compressed, converting to another compression format makes it sound even worse.
Since I already have my music uploaded to Amazon, I think I'll stay there for now (I do have over 10,000 songs anyway, which took about a week to upload to Amazon).
It's a good thing they waited for Steve Jobs to die, this would've killed him outright.
One option: Download craploads of free music from Google, then upload it to Amazon. It's DRM-free, ya know.
Also, it only allows you to download purchased songs twice, instead of unlimited times like Amazon.
I didn't think of that, maybe I'll do that.
@bobthegoat2001: From what I've read, you can get around the twice-only download thing by using the Music Manager to download all purchased music.
Also.... I just noticed that someone down-voted my previous post in which I suggested taking advantage of free music?? I wonder if someone hates Google or me?
@mrsmoofy: I think they might be getting just a tad of traffic today. ;-)
It seems to be taking a few minutes for purchased tracks to get into your library. In the mean time, if you refresh the page it will let you buy them again. But - from what I've seen - if you wait a few minutes the music will show up in your library.
@spikedknight: Check the latest app update (4.0.9.509). It fixes a lot of the our bugs in the initial version(s).
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