I thought "upload" was basically uploading the track details so playback uses a world database like Spotify....... not physically uploading every song I have! !
Its going to take ages on my connection as my upload speed is only 300-400kbps.
I thought "upload" was basically uploading the track details so playback uses a world database like Spotify....... not physically uploading every song I have! !
I believe it uses an audio fingerprint of each track to match with one already in the Google library. But tracks that aren't in the library will still need to be uploaded.
About 1000 of my tracks were quickly matched, with the rest gradually being uploaded.
To upload photos you need to download a little Windows/Mac app which will try and match songs to Google's database and upload the rest. It searches in obvious places like "My Music" folders and itunes folders but you can tell it to search particular folders as well. I did this before the match thing came out, so just left it running for a couple of days, no big deal.
Then you can play your music on any browser, on any device
According to windows my Music Folder is 26,9GB with 3,941 files.
With a Google Music upload rate of 400kbps, this..... is......going.....to.....take.......a......long.......time.:(
Hmmm looks like you have some high bit rate music in there. That's an average of almost 7MB per track. Either that or you have some videos in there somewhere.
My plan is to sell my ipod or give it my partner, then just use this as for my music. I hardly listen to my ipod because its ANOTHER device to carry about.
I'm going to download albums to my phone, then delete them when i get bored.
A better idea would be a bit of software on your PC that analyses all your music rather than uploading stuff that could take ages!
Well, it does download a bit of software to your PC - Google Music Manager.
I'm not convinced that it scanned and matched anything of mine. All my music is commerically available in the UK, and yet it took several hours to upload over 2000 tracks.
Maybe I'll start uploading on the weekend. I guess it's gonna be time consuming. Some of the albums are even cheaper than amazon. I wonder how long these prices will hold.
A better idea would be a bit of software on your PC that analyses all your music rather than uploading stuff that could take ages!
I think it does that, I've been uploading some stuff this morning and the number of tracks rose by about 100 during the time that it took to upload two tracks in full.
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Its going to take ages on my connection as my upload speed is only 300-400kbps.
That's coming soon.
I believe it uses an audio fingerprint of each track to match with one already in the Google library. But tracks that aren't in the library will still need to be uploaded.
About 1000 of my tracks were quickly matched, with the rest gradually being uploaded.
Your own. Up to 20,000, I think. I uploaded 2000, none of which have been purchased from Google Muic.
Where do you put the song files in order for it to upload?
http://music.google.com
To upload photos you need to download a little Windows/Mac app which will try and match songs to Google's database and upload the rest. It searches in obvious places like "My Music" folders and itunes folders but you can tell it to search particular folders as well. I did this before the match thing came out, so just left it running for a couple of days, no big deal.
Then you can play your music on any browser, on any device
http://play.google.com/music/
Just started uploading 12,000 songs...
how do you find out the ones that Google have matched ... I cant have 4000 un-matched songs
Depends on the length of the song and the recording quality but an average track is about 3-4MB that means 4,000 songs is about 12-16GB.
You can find out exactly by checking the size of your music folder.
guessing they'll be ready to play at music.google.com.....
According to windows my Music Folder is 26,9GB with 3,941 files.
With a Google Music upload rate of 400kbps, this..... is......going.....to.....take.......a......long.......time.:(
Hmmm looks like you have some high bit rate music in there. That's an average of almost 7MB per track. Either that or you have some videos in there somewhere.
I'm going to download albums to my phone, then delete them when i get bored.
Well, it does download a bit of software to your PC - Google Music Manager.
I'm not convinced that it scanned and matched anything of mine. All my music is commerically available in the UK, and yet it took several hours to upload over 2000 tracks.
I think it does that, I've been uploading some stuff this morning and the number of tracks rose by about 100 during the time that it took to upload two tracks in full.