Database Users

Google Music Beta is live.

http://music.google.com/. Go get an invite.

Another "Outside of U.S need not apply" situation.
How can I continue to exercise my Google fanboidom?!

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.music&feature=search_result

How long did they take to send the invite? I've requested one through a proxy, with Google Voice i received it in minutes...

Was there an app for this already on the A500 ? Yesterday evening I turned on the tablet and right away it had an update from google music. I never noticed the widget before until I saw the update.

Right, the app is already on our tablets (which I linked to a few posts up) and if you visit the market, it might even tell you to update it - however the service - the cloud storage part - is by invite.
So, while you can use the app, it's local only.

How long does it take for an invite?
Sent from my ADR6400L using XDA Premium App

me wants invite!
I was swearing up and down after Engadget's review of this stuff this morning. They basically blamed Google for coming out with an app that doesn't meld with the ISP's outrageously stupid and unfair data tiers and caps. UNBELIEVABLE.

I have moved some albums into the a500 music folder from my computer. I looked everywhere on my tablet and cant find anything that I moved but I can see them in the folder on my computer what gives ?

Has anyone gotten in!!!! i'm begging them to let me in!!!!!

Nothing yet...
Sent from my A500 using XDA Premium App

I requested an invite on the 10th and haven't heard anything back yet either.

poeticdecision said:
Has anyone gotten in!!!! i'm begging them to let me in!!!!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You should keep submitting. With the same email. Over and over and over again... (;
We're rootin' fer'ya!

I definitely can't wait for this to go public.
I love sticking it to the record companies for not being progressive and hugging their money.
DOWN WITH THE MAN!
That and I don't have to copy my music across many devices anymore...

I tried that approach but it only registers once and says only registered... Music is my favorite passtime it would make things alot easier

...
I got my invite today. I registered for it as soon as the invite link went live the day of Google I/O. I'm here at work so I haven't had a chance to play with it yet. I did active it though and when you're in activating it, it gives you the option of some free songs depending on the genre you like. Hopefully I can upload some of my music tonight and have a full report on this later.

Sounds good. Grats.
Even though I requested an invite, I won't use the service. I have all my music on my tab.

I got my invite yesterday. Deleted the free songs (um no thanks for the 100 songs I won't listen too).
There is a limit to 20,000 songs, found out yesterday my entire library is 29,000 plus songs.
Takes FOREVER to upload songs, BUT surprisingly there is WMA support in the cloud. They must be re-compressing stuff during the upload.
It's a pretty cool thing, but Audiogalaxy is MUCH faster.

Use the Amazon Cloud Music app. available right now and works just as well, if not better.

xfernand said:
Use the Amazon Cloud Music app. available right now and works just as well, if not better.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, except for the whole 5GB limit. Google Music has a 20k song limit...

Who else got invited to Google Music Beta?

From the e-mail I got from Google, I've aparently been invited because I own the Xoom 3g, and am currently paying for 3g service from Verizon.
But whatever the reason, I got the invite.
I still haven't recieved the update for my Xoom yet, and I don't think you can get the Music app in the app store until the update, so i've been forced to try the beta in "Browser" which is a bunk.
As far as desktop goes, it works well, but on the Xoom, it lags a little, and will only play the music if the tab for the player is open. (which really I guess is to be expected, and why there is an app for it.)
Regardless, it is quite simple to use, and in itself, is a very simple layout. There isn't really anthing special, it reminds me of itunes (as far as strictly listening to music, not including the store and all the extra jazz.) They have what they call "Instant Mixes" which is pretty much the genious mix in apple, except it will only create a 25 song playlist.
One nice thing about it, is whatever player you choose it to upload your songs with, it carries over the playlists.
There is a "New and Recent" section beside Album, Song, Genre, and Artist like on the Xoom. Also, a small but nice selection of free songs that you can choose to have imported into your cloud when you sign in the first time.
I really will have to wait till I can test the app to make any final decisions on this.
As far as I'm concerned, cloud based music storage is pretty much useless to me. I can survive with 5-10 gigs stored onto my Xoom that I can listen too without ever needing to connect to the internet. (I don't need to use my 10$ a gig data from verizon for something that should be free) Once we get our SD slot working, this will become especially true. It is cool to be able to have your music anywhere in the world, but not if you think that you have to pay Google for this service, then pay for the data while using the service.
But I will go at it with an open mind for anyone that would find this of interest, because well, I guess it's part my duty since I recieved an invite. If you also recieved an invite please let me know what you think about it.

I got in the beta as well. The biggest thing for me when it comes to cloud music is not worrying about transferring music to my devices or computers anymore. I'm always worried about backing up my music and syncing across all my computers. Now if I reformat any of my devices be it tablet, phone or laptop I can get my music from anywhere and redownload it if needed.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA Premium App

Do you have the ability to invite others?
Sent from my Xoom using XDA Premium App

Saintfyre said:
Do you have the ability to invite others?
Sent from my Xoom using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No, only google can invite.

It is weird... i got on the Music page before the keynote and signed up for the Beta with the same email as the one my Xoom is connected to and I still haven't gotten anything.... kinda sucks.... maybe that caused everyone to assume we were just another user instead of Xoom users

Handshake87 said:
It is weird... i got on the Music page before the keynote and signed up for the Beta with the same email as the one my Xoom is connected to and I still haven't gotten anything.... kinda sucks.... maybe that caused everyone to assume we were just another user instead of Xoom users
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
See, I don't think you will get an invite just for owning a xoom..... Here is exactly how the e-mail inviting me was phrased (Please note, i did not sign up for an invite, i just got it)
Hello Motorola XOOM user,
We'd like to tell you about some changes to the Music player on your tablet. The latest app update now supports Music Beta, a new service from Google. As a Verizon Motorola XOOM user, you’ve been extended an early invitation to beta test this service.
Music Beta lets you store your personal music collection online and access it instantly without the hassle of wires or syncing.
Enjoy your music anywhere — listen on any web browser, your Motorola XOOM, or any other device running Android 2.2 or higher.
Save your favorite albums, artists, and playlists on your smartphone or tablet so you can keep listening even when you're not connected.
Create your own custom playlists or build them automatically from a single song.
Note also that is says Verizon Motorola XOOM user... I guess this could be explained by any 3g model, but I actually have my data active, so I imagined that's why I received the invite.

Saintfyre said:
Do you have the ability to invite others?
Sent from my Xoom using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Not that I can see. I have yet to receive the 3.1 update, but I received the invite, signed up, and also downloaded the updated Music app from the market. I haven't uploaded any songs yet, but I can stream the two dozen or so tracks they gave me for free. Works well, pretty simple, audio quality is actually pretty decent - on the Xoom speakers, haven't tested on my Sennheiser headphones though.

khov07 said:
Not that I can see. I have yet to receive the 3.1 update, but I received the invite, signed up, and also downloaded the updated Music app from the market. I haven't uploaded any songs yet, but I can stream the two dozen or so tracks they gave me for free. Works well, pretty simple, audio quality is actually pretty decent - on the Xoom speakers, haven't tested on my Sennheiser headphones though.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Oh, so it's just an update to the stock music player I need?

I have active data on my 3G xoom w/ Verizon also, so it's weird they would pull random people, but I guess that may not be weird. I have 3.1 on my xoom after doing the force push update from BRD. I also have the new beta music app on both my tablet and my phone lol. I have not received an invite though...What I do like is the ability to get movies through the Android Market but I don't think that's part of this?
Oh well then

I pay for 3G service on my Xoom as well, and I haven't gotten an invite, or the dam update!
lol

Should be noted my 3g xoom has never had vzw service and I got the xoom invite email.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA Premium App

Bauxite said:
Should be noted my 3g xoom has never had vzw service and I got the xoom invite email.
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well I guess they're doing some kind of random invite...

So i guess a good question is, have any WiFi Xoom owners gotten the email with out requesting an Invite?

At I/O, Google said that Music was a beta program with a limited audience initially: all attendees got an invite. There are two components: the new player, and the backend service. I believe they are independent of one another, such that you can download the Music Beta app in the Market but still not be admitted to the beta of the service.
Apologies if this was all already obvious: I just wanted to clarify for folks in case it wasn't clear as there are a few moving parts.

sogrady said:
At I/O, Google said that Music was a beta program with a limited audience initially: all attendees got an invite. There are two components: the new player, and the backend service. I believe they are independent of one another, such that you can download the Music Beta app in the Market but still not be admitted to the beta of the service.
Apologies if this was all already obvious: I just wanted to clarify for folks in case it wasn't clear as there are a few moving parts.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I believe you are correct. Anyone can download the updated Music app from the Market, but unless you got an invite and signed up, you can't use the whiz-bang features of the Music beta service.
On both my EVO and Xoom, I was able to update the app and signed into it thanks to the invite I received.

Ya I have activated 3g Xoom on Verizon so I am unsure as to WTF is going on lol

I have the 3G Xoom but do not pay for the service, and I've had it since day 1. I'm not rooted, and I have not received the 3.1 update yet.
I requested an invite for Music before the keynote Monday with my main gmail account. I have 2 other accounts tied to my xoom, but I initially signed into my xoom with my main account.
About 30 minutes ago, I got an invite to Music in one of the secondary accounts tied to my Xoom (one I did NOT request an invite with).
Currently uploaded about 500 songs, about 18k to go. This is exciting!
Now I just need my 3.1!

mixpix405 said:
I have the 3G Xoom but do not pay for the service, and I've had it since day 1. I'm not rooted, and I have not received the 3.1 update yet.
I requested an invite for Music before the keynote Monday with my main gmail account. I have 2 other accounts tied to my xoom, but I initially signed into my xoom with my main account.
About 30 minutes ago, I got an invite to Music in one of the secondary accounts tied to my Xoom (one I did NOT request an invite with).
Currently uploaded about 500 songs, about 18k to go. This is exciting!
Now I just need my 3.1!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well however they're doing it, I'm glad I got the invite as it works quite well. I don't know about other cloud services as I have not tried them, but the way all the music stored on the cloud and all that is stored on your XOOM blend together in the same app is sweet.
Unfortunately I am still waiting on my update. I just wanted to add that.

Got two invite e-mails (24 hours apart) so ok. But no 3.1 update.

mjpacheco said:
Got two invite e-mails (24 hours apart) so ok. But no 3.1 update.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Can I have one?
Still waiting for invite and 3.1
Sent from my Xoom using XDA App

Google Music Beta

So i just recieved my invite to join the music beta. it is pretty spiffy guys. if youve not signed up, i recommend you should. if any one has question, just message me.

Yeah i got mine a few days ago too!
It's great! lol

Yeah got one today also.... gonna check it out tomorrow.

Waaaa haven't got mine yet......

Still uploading my collection, take a while since I have a lot of FLAC files and it converts them to 256? MP3s

yah it takes along time to update ur collection to there cloud! a very long time!!!

Signed up but no email invites. Even tried a couple different emails. Dam sucks. Have 7 GB of music and would like to free up my 8gb SD card.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA Premium App

I have a question is there or will. There be an integrated app for this or just through web browser access?
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA Premium App

lorddart said:
I have a question is there or will. There be an integrated app for this or just through web browser access?
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes there is a app, just look on market for it! but u have to signed up to use it.
darkside79 said:
Have 7 GB of music and would like to free up my 8gb SD card.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If u have 7 gb of music and u want streaming for free on wifi or 3g then get Audio galaxy for android as its just as good as google music and i have both. That will free up the room on ur sd card..enjoy

ugh... 10,000+ songs uploading. 179 added hahahha
:sigh: update: 288 songs of 13,083 this is madness... i need to get better internet! haha

ipeench said:
ugh... 10,000+ songs uploading. 179 added hahahha
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
intesrestingly...
mine uploaded 100 out of 179
LOL

Wait, folks are still waiting for invites?!
I've had mine set up for a couple weeks now (maybe cuz I used to have a Xoom they sped my invite up...) and am loving it. Been using the web software at work to listen to music. Then switch to my phone for the drive home (streaming over the webz).
Either way, it uploaded about 2/3 of my 33 gig collection. Apparently there's a 20 gig limit...

reuthermonkey said:
Wait, folks are still waiting for invites?!
I've had mine set up for a couple weeks now (maybe cuz I used to have a Xoom they sped my invite up...) and am loving it. Been using the web software at work to listen to music. Then switch to my phone for the drive home (streaming over the webz).
Either way, it uploaded about 2/3 of my 33 gig collection. Apparently there's a 20 gig limit...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You sure about that? If you look at the settings it allows you to upload 20000 songs. I have 46.5 gigs of music and thats only around 10000 songs. I know it didnt upload some of my music due to DRM. I've been uploading for 4 days and its at about half lol

GranCalibre said:
You sure about that? If you look at the settings it allows you to upload 20000 songs. I have 46.5 gigs of music and thats only around 10000 songs. I know it didnt upload some of my music due to DRM. I've been uploading for 4 days and its at about half lol
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah I saw that limit and I certainly haven't come close to the 20000 songs yet, but it inexplicably won't scan above the 2gig mark for me. Maybe I need to figure out a way to re-add the missing songs

reuthermonkey said:
Wait, folks are still waiting for invites?!
I've had mine set up for a couple weeks now (maybe cuz I used to have a Xoom they sped my invite up...) and am loving it. Been using the web software at work to listen to music. Then switch to my phone for the drive home (streaming over the webz).
Either way, it uploaded about 2/3 of my 33 gig collection. Apparently there's a 20 gig limit...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yes, people with tablets got their invites faster than others.

I can't seem to get shuffle to work on my phone. It will just keep repeating the same song. Maybe because my music isn't cached yet? Odd, but otherwise pretty awesome.

Is there a way to select what to upload and what not to?

received my invite yesterday still uploading music but its worth it. best app i have used in a while. does anyone have an idea of how much it will cost? its says its free for now?

ipeench said:
Is there a way to select what to upload and what not to?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
make different folders in different directories.

Got my invite today, started uploading my 7000 songs an hour ago, 3000 are done so far.
****ing love my internet, so glad I decided to upgrade it a month ago. xD

[SOLVED] Music beta outside of US

I have Google Beta working and syncing to device outside of US....Heres how I did it.
Sign up for beta using a proxy server (I used http://hidemyass.com/)
Use "Market enabler" to fake a US provider to download music beta
then follow directions for music beta and away you go
confirmed working in canada.

do you have to always run Market Enabler every time you use music beta?

plumed said:
do you have to always run Market Enabler every time you use music beta?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
you shouldn't have to once you set fake on boot, but to be honest i havent reboot my phone since stumbling upon this...
The only time you "need" to run market enabler is to install the app, I just tested it when rebooting after a rom install

I faked my ip using zend2.com and then used MarketEnabler to download the Music app. And after that, Music Beta runs seamlessly on my phone. I'm in Vietnam, but I don't experience significant lag (just about 1-2 secs at the beginning at a song) with the service.
In fact, I came to love this service so much. I'm impressed that it's working well in a remote country to US like Vietnam lol

i can only ask an invitation, now is up to google, i guess...

plumed said:
do you have to always run Market Enabler every time you use music beta?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
no, once its downloaded, you're good to go. You'll have to use it for any updates though to the app.
Got my invite last night, working well so far

I got mine last night too. Working in Canada. Upload speed is terrible. Uploading 6000 songs, after 24hrs, 1050 songs uploaded. Wow.

upload is based on your connection I believe but ya its taking way too long....

jfive74 said:
I got mine last night too. Working in Canada. Upload speed is terrible. Uploading 6000 songs, after 24hrs, 1050 songs uploaded. Wow.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
hah saem, 24 hours, 1k done

Got my invite last week, upload is slow but it's looking good.

Any of you guys getting skipped songs? i have 1k skipped tracks for some reason :/

only 14 skipped here

I'm living in Singapore however I receive the update as per normal on market. However it functions as normal music player only ...
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA Premium App

How long did it take you guys to receive the invite from when you signed up?

plumed said:
How long did it take you guys to receive the invite from when you signed up?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I didn't apply for any invites just for your info I have no idea why it popped up as an update
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA Premium App

plumed said:
How long did it take you guys to receive the invite from when you signed up?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I got mine on Tuesday and applied the first day

I'm in Canada as well and had an update notification through my market. When you clicked to update it would time out by saying "not found". However you can update by long pressing the app and selecting update.
Now I'm simply waiting for my invite.
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

I submitted my invite request a couple weeks ago using the suggestion in the OP, but I haven't heard anything yet. Hopefully soon!

Confirmed Works in New Zealand.

Worked for me but I stopped using it, it really drains the battery to have that service running all the time.

[Q] Google Music Beta

How long did it take your guys' music to be uploaded into the cloud. I have a little over 1000 songs and its taking FOREVER. I have a slow internet connection, but this just seems ridiculous.

It takes very long to upload.
From engadget:
engadget.com/2011/05/11/google-music-beta-walkthrough-what-it-is-and-how-it-works-vide/
The bandwidth problem
And this, folks, is the elephant in the room, and it's the same one seen in Amazon's closet. A near-limitless cloud of music sounds stellar -- particularly while it's still priced at $0.00 -- but the toll it'll take on your broadband limits cannot be ignored. 20,000 songs is a ton of information, even if every last one is encoded at a measly 128kbps. Let's say each of your tunes is 3MB -- that's most likely a conservative figure, but we'll use it for the sake of this example. 20,000 of those lands you at around 60GB. For the average broadband user, it'll take days -- if not a full week or so -- to upload that much material, and if you're using a vanilla Time Warner Cable connection, it'll paralyze your web surfing all the while. Granted, you can manually throttle your Music uploads within Music Manager, but doing so will greatly increase the time it takes to get your library in the cloud.

About 5 days
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App

4-5 days for 30GB

I have over 20,000 songs and quite honestly I didn't pay attention to how fast it was going. I just started it and forgot about it.

Can someone pm me for an invite? I'm really interested in this Google music, but I heard its invite only.
Sent from my HTC Vision using Tapatalk

It's invite only from Google directly if I'm not mistaken. I think I put my name on a list that I was interested a long time ago.

Only took me about 14 hours to upload about 1,200 songs. Started it right before bed, woke up, and went to a class and by the time I got back to my house it was done.

I have 24,000 songs.. just started uploading earlier today using my work computer. Our network is pretty fast, so we'll see. It uploaded about 300 songs within the first 10 mins tho.

Is it a google server thing or the limit of user's broadband? I have Verizon FIOS 30MB upload, haven't used the app yet, but was considering it. Maybe I'll pass.

You dont neet a invite just goto
www.music.Google.com and sign up for a account took about a week for my account settings to get emailed to me
As im from australia i had to.register using a proxy but once registed its working fine with no proxy
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using XDA App

Thanks for the responses. My internet speeds with at&t are pathetic right now so it makes sense for it to be taking so long i guess. Im probably going to leave at&t. Also, I dont want to leave my laptop plugged in overnight while uploading the music because i dont want to mess up my battery.

it took me a couple days to upload my library (2500 songs) to the amazon cloud player... it sucked, but eventually got done... I have an invite to Google music, but I'm not sure if I want to go through the pain of uploading all that again... (I'm running plain old at&t DSL)

I dumped AT&T DSL for cable. Its so much faster.
Sent from my GT-P7510 using Tapatalk

Framedtrash said:
As im from australia i had to.register using a proxy but once registed its working fine with no proxy
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I did the same thing to get into the Music Beta, but I can't connect my 10.1v to the same network I used to get into the Beta, so I haven't been able to update the app on my tablet.
Is there any way to get the app updated (APK maybe?) short of getting my tablet onto a North American proxy?
-EDIT-
I'm searching for the APK, have found multiple hits but I mainly see APKs that might be a bit out of date.

I simply attach an HDD to my router and stream stuff over wlan / internet.
Here we have the so called fritz.box , it can do that.
no need for google spyware

RaindancerAU said:
I did the same thing to get into the Music Beta, but I can't connect my 10.1v to the same network I used to get into the Beta, so I haven't been able to update the app on my tablet.
Is there any way to get the app updated (APK maybe?) short of getting my tablet onto a North American proxy?
-EDIT-pm
I'm searching for the APK, have found multiple hits but I mainly see APKs that might be a bit out of date.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
PM your email address and ill send u it

http://www.4shared.com/file/85Gfqef7/comgoogleandroidmusic-1.html

Took my music hard drive to sister's place with 20mbit FIOS upload ;P 30GB in a few hours
If you have crap upload, consider getting iCloud music for $24.99/year. It will mirror your itunes library online without having to upload anything.