Google Music Tomorrow?

love that turbo

Anyone know if we are getting Google music tomorrow.
It mentions the UK and I remember before that when we could buy apps Ireland was not mentioned but only UK,


or am I gasping?????

Professey Chin

love that turbo wrote: »

Anyone know if we are getting Google music tomorrow.
It mentions the UK and I remember before that when we could buy apps Ireland was not mentioned but only UK,


or am I gasping?????

Nope. Can always be gotten through a proxy but not officially

PogMoThoin

love that turbo wrote: »

Anyone know if we are getting Google music tomorrow.
It mentions the UK and I remember before that when we could buy apps Ireland was not mentioned but only UK,


or am I gasping?????

I have it for ages, I've managed to upload about 28 gb uploaded so far. There are easy workarounds to sign up, have a Google.

AltAccount

I'm in the UK at the moment and it's very frustrating the difference between UK Play and ROI Play.

Kenny Powers

Wi you be able to buy track with an Irish credit card on the uk store and use Google match?

Patsy fyre

Google music is play music right?

long_b

Patsy fyre wrote: »

Google music is play music right?

yup

Patsy fyre

long_b wrote: »

yup

How come I have that already though?

Prefer the rocket player widget.

Varik

Downloaded the app fine, can't check any of the cloud stuff as it gives a region errors will check in a few minutes when it's Tuesday.

polaris68

Kenny Powers wrote: »

Wi you be able to buy track with an Irish credit card on the uk store and use Google match?

Checked out the UK music store a while ago with tunnelbear and my Irish credit card on Google wallet doesn't work

TBH it's not a patch on the US store for music selection and especially price.

nedd

Patsy fyre wrote: »

How come I have that already though?

Prefer the rocket player widget.

while the app works here and you can upload your music after initially signing up through a proxy we don't have a music store. The music store is launching in the UK today.

Kenno90

I have the google music app, where i can steam my music to the phone and listen to them on the browser but i can't actually buy new music. Not that tried

Shane O' Malley

All you need is a US proxy when you sign up to the account. After that it does not check and allows access to everything (Except store to buy music)

love that turbo

Or just download expat shield.
Have uploaded 30+ gb of music and working well.

Expat Shield is free btw

Shane O' Malley

love that turbo wrote: »

Or just download expat shield.
Have uploaded 30+ gb of music and working well.

Expat Shield is free btw

Do you still need to upload the files. I understood that they just scan your library and then match it with the music they have. I know i had to upload everything but did not think you had to do that any more.

Also, i only needed to use the US proxy when i was signing up, not when i was uploading.

Journeyman_1

Looks like we can't buy music there yet which is a shame.

JacksonHeightsOwn

lads, does anybody have an idea when google music will be 100% functional in Ireland?

and i dont mean being able to use it with a fake address, or some other scam.

i mean available so we can browse and buy music just like itunes.

Julius Seizure

chrisbonnie wrote: »

lads, does anybody have an idea when google music will be 100% functional in Ireland?

and i dont mean being able to use it with a fake address, or some other scam.

i mean available so we can browse and buy music just like itunes.

When we get rid of archaic digital content laws

JacksonHeightsOwn

Dubhaltach wrote: »

When we get rid of archaic digital content laws

how archaic are these laws, seeing as itunes has been around for years now.

Julius Seizure

chrisbonnie wrote: »

how archaic are these laws, seeing as itunes has been around for years now.

Couldn't tell you butttt, and this is a complete guess, could it be linked to the fact that iTunes sells you a licence where with play you get to download the MP3 to a zip archive?

I'll do a few searches but you here it a lot around here. Note how Netflix took years to come here and a severely disabled Netflix at that

thebman

Just use Spotify TBH. If your going to buy the music, it works much better to have access to a huge range for a small monthly fee.

Julius Seizure

thebman wrote: »

Just use Spotify TBH. If your going to buy the music, it works much better to have access to a huge range for a small monthly fee.

If you are on windows phone I can't reccommend zune pass enough. On android I'm liking Grooveshark VIP. Can you save spotify locally?

Shane O' Malley

Dubhaltach wrote: »

Couldn't tell you butttt, and this is a complete guess, could it be linked to the fact that iTunes sells you a licence where with play you get to download the MP3 to a zip archive?

I'll do a few searches but you here it a lot around here. Note how Netflix took years to come here and a severely disabled Netflix at that

As far as i have heard the problem with setting up a music store in Europe is that you have to negotiate with multiple organisations rather than one big one. So they leave the smaller markets until later and concentrate on getting running in the larger countries.

It has nothing to do with the download format.

Still plenty of places to buy music. Google Music Play is handy for hosting your entire collection in the cloud and being able to play it from any internet browser.

Shane

JacksonHeightsOwn

thebman wrote: »

Just use Spotify TBH. If your going to buy the music, it works much better to have access to a huge range for a small monthly fee.

that spotify is horrible,

the layout is shocking and there's no way im going to pay a subscription when i may not actually buy anything that month

rampantglory

love that turbo wrote: »

Or just download expat shield.
Have uploaded 30+ gb of music and working well.

Expat Shield is free btw

just a note to you fella, ive had bad experiences with expat shield... well my gf has , she used it to watch tv , but used to browse while it was on.... her facebook , gmail , twitter all were hacked , from spain... i use the same laptop but always made sure expat was off and none of my accounts were hacked...

SO be warned....

love that turbo

Thanks for the warning, I'll make sure it's off.

PogMoThoin

rampantglory wrote: »

just a note to you fella, ive had bad experiences with expat shield... well my gf has , she used it to watch tv , but used to browse while it was on.... her facebook , gmail , twitter all were hacked , from spain... i use the same laptop but always made sure expat was off and none of my accounts were hacked...

SO be warned....

Most likely she used the same passwords everywhere than the passwords were hacked passing through the VPN. VPN traffic is encrypted, as is your Facebook session through HTTPS. What you're suggesting is impossible.

rampantglory

i reckon impossible is nothin....
and no she doesnt use the same password for every thing, i make sure of that....

nothin was hacked before she used expat shield, and nothin has been hacked since its been uninstalled , im not saying it was expat but it certainly seems so , at least it opens you up to ....

mollser

I used expat shield once and after about 30 seconds it had changed browser settings, was unbelievably slow to connect to anything then got a blue screen of death. Tunnelbear works like a dream though!

Was about to upload my collection to Google Music but not all of it was from legit sources, so got cold feet. Seems like you're confessing all about previous illegal downloading.

I just wonder in years to come will authorities (music bodies or other) use their powers to swoop on these accounts and target individuals for illegally downloading?? before they would have had to get your harddrive, now you'll be telling google! Anyone any thoughts on this?

nedd

mollser wrote: »

I just wonder in years to come will authorities (music bodies or other) use their powers to swoop on these accounts and target individuals for illegally downloading?? before they would have had to get your harddrive, now you'll be telling google! Anyone any thoughts on this?

This will not happen.

rampantglory

nedd wrote: »

This will not happen.

Why not? It could be assumed that at least music cops will be able to claim ownership of it and reclaim or so you.. Like they do for YouTube

mollser

I'm not so sure.

First time I heard about Apples version, I thought, AMNESTY, here we go, all illicit past is forgiven.

However now I think it's just the worlds greatest database of illicit downloading outside of thepiratebay, if Metallica or whoever take the hump, off they go to Apple and sue the sh!te out of thousands ney millions of people!

This is probably more likely with Google's service though as at least with apple they get a slice of the $25p.a., with Google, nothing!

donspeekinglesh

As far as I know Google are paying the labels, same as Apple and Amazon. Only difference is Google are taking the hit themselves.

mollser

donspeekinglesh wrote: »

As far as I know Google are paying the labels, same as Apple and Amazon. Only difference is Google are taking the hit themselves.

Oh - didn't know that - great! Still holding back on using this for now anyway - sure between having a 64gb Micro SD card and truely awful O2 3G coverage, I don't see the need for it, just yet anyway :P

nedd

mollser wrote: »

I'm not so sure.

However now I think it's just the worlds greatest database of illicit downloading outside of thepiratebay, if Metallica or whoever take the hump, off they go to Apple and sue the sh!te out of thousands ney millions of people!

I think that is just paranoid musings of a crazy person. I have no basis for that opinion but I'm sticking by it.

Mr Bloat

mollser wrote: »

However now I think it's just the worlds greatest database of illicit downloading outside of thepiratebay, if Metallica or whoever take the hump, off they go to Apple and sue the sh!te out of thousands ney millions of people!

!

If that were to happen (and I'm sure it won't) how will the music labels be able to tell the difference between the music I ripped from my own cds or bought legally from sites like 7 digital and music illegally downloaded?