Will Google ever fix Google Music and make it into something that's actually useful?

[Melt_Man]

It's ridiculous....just poach some Apple talent already

These tech companies fukk their workers by making them sign noncompete agreements.

 

[FlyRy]

i love google music.

 

[Why-Fi]

Let me try to explain this again:

I've been using iTunes for nearly a decade now. I have an iPod Classic that I mainly use in the car (this is how I listen to music 90% of the time), and an iPod Nano that I use in the gym (how I listen to music 8% of the time).... Streaming with Google Music would only be used 1% of the time.

When I, uhh, acquire music, I add the file to the folder, and then to iTunes, then add individual songs to playlist(s) if applicable.

My complaint is that I don't want to have to do this for Google Music as well. Especially since I keep my music on an external hard drive, and I almost always have to fight with it to automatically upload into Google music so that it even recognizes the new music.

And the metadata issue which I'll post examples of in a sec...


If I could get one program that handles both cloud music and physical storage I'd be

I imagine iCloud does this, but it ain't free, thus not worth it, since I'd only use the cloud portion 1% of the time.

Make sense?

I must say that iTunes Match is worth it. Its your only option for handling both cloud and physical in one place. I've tried amazon google and iTunes cloud services but iTunes has given me the least problems. I used to love google music btw but when I subscribed to iTunes Match it murdered that whole system

Amazon is cool too, but I had trouble streaming too often for it to be worth any money. I can't find the right word for it but amazon isn't as "strong" as iTunes neither. Robust? I'm saying iTunes is really aggressive with matching your music and syncing across everything instantly. sometimes you have go pause the shyt because it starts syncing before youre done organizing. Amazon has like an hour lag updating sometimes

 

[CTech83]

Well, I want it to automatically update. I may get a new version of a song (better quality, no DJ, etc).

If it's pointing to F:/My Music but then I insert the drive tomorrow, and it's G:/My Music Google Music can't do anything with it. Then if I point it to the G:/My Music folder instead of scanning and seeing I added 3 songs, it tries to upload 17,000 songs

Just give your external hard drive a dedicated drive letter so it stays the same when you plug it in. This can be done in disk manager in Windows.

Here's a guide on how to do it

http://windows.microsoft.com/is-IS/windows-vista/Change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter

 

[Monoblock]

So do y'all not have iPods?

For the record, there is no desktop program. That's kinda the problem. All they have is a glorified script which can scan a particular folder and upload music whenever files are added to that folder, automatically. All of the editing is done through the browser or a mobile device....in the cloud.


What I'm referring to in regards to the playlist is the fact that I use iTunes for my iPod. So when I get new music, I update those playlist...I'm not trying to have to update Google Music playlist as well...that's a pain the ass...especially when I have to fight with Google Music


Then there's the metadata issue (title, artist, album, track number, etc). I have all that info filled in through iTunes, cuz I want to keep my music in order. For whatever reason, that stuff doesn't always translate to Google Music and there's no easy way to edit it after the fact. So I have many albums that won't play in order or will omit songs....fukking annoying.

The problem with your metadata is that you letting ITunes tag your music which is a mistake. I tag all of my music myself (yea I'm a bit of a Nazi when it comes to music tagging) with tag and rename (album covers, artists, album name, genre) that way I can upload it to any music program and everything will be the way I want it no matter what I use.

Google music is a little cumbersome at times but it's clutch. I don't see what the problem is though. If you have all of your music on an external just make a special folder on your pc and drop the new music in there and let it upload it to the cloud. After its done just cut and paste it to your external drive.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Google......music? What?

This. Btw, the Xbox music service on the windows phone and windows 8 is phenomenal by the way. You're doing yourself a disservice by not giving it a shot. The same service gives you access to unlimited music on all your M$ services.

 

[jalamanta]

This. Btw, the Xbox music service on the windows phone and windows 8 is phenomenal by the way. You're doing yourself a disservice by not giving it a shot. The same service gives you access to unlimited music on all your M$ services.

how much microsoft pays you?

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Just give your external hard drive a dedicated drive letter so it stays the same when you plug it in. This can be done in disk manager in Windows.

Here's a guide on how to do it

Change, add, or remove a drive letter

I'll try this.... good looking out.

The problem with your metadata is that you letting ITunes tag your music which is a mistake. I tag all of my music myself (yea I'm a bit of a Nazi when it comes to music tagging) with tag and rename (album covers, artists, album name, genre) that way I can upload it to any music program and everything will be the way I want it no matter what I use.

Google music is a little cumbersome at times but it's clutch. I don't see what the problem is though. If you have all of your music on an external just make a special folder on your pc and drop the new music in there and let it upload it to the cloud. After its done just cut and paste it to your external drive.

What do you mean by "letting iTunes tag it"? Does this include manually doing it in iTunes? Cuz that is what I do.

Is the only other option doing them individually through Windows Explorer? Cuz that would be too cumbersome. If I get five albums, I ain't going through 60+ songs and editing them individually.

Is there at least some program that I could bulk edit before adding them into iTunes?
(Google Music's clunky ass really should have a way bulk edit the 17k songs I already have uploaded )

 

[JMurder]

You have to realize that you're comparing a program that's been out for over a decade and a service that's been out less than two years. Patience, Google Music will get where you want it to go

 

[Fury616]

*hops in the whip*
*connects cellphone wit USB*
*press play on custom playlist in Google Music*

Works fine for me

 

[Fury616]

iPods?

c/s ipods in 2012/2013

 

[volk]

Google Music works fine for me. I add a song to a playlist in Itunes, it adds it to the same playlist on my phone.

The phone app does it's job for the most part but it is incredibly buggy at times.

 

[Rohiggidy]

This dude is a retard. You have to sync Google music to update it. Go to setting then hit sync. It does it automatically if sync is not turned off

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[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

This dude is a retard. You have to sync Google music to update it. Go to setting then hit sync. It does it automatically if sync is not turned off

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Did you bother reading my complaints?

Nah, you just came in here desperately trying to cape up for Google, smh

You have to realize that you're comparing a program that's been out for over a decade and a service that's been out less than two years. Patience, Google Music will get where you want it to go

From all appearances Google has no intention on ever creating a desktop application....they've fallen too much in love with the cloud. I'm not convinced it will ever get there.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Google Music works fine for me. I add a song to a playlist in Itunes, it adds it to the same playlist on my phone.

The phone app does it's job for the most part but it is incredibly buggy at times.

How?

Y'all just making shyt up at this point.