finally loaded up the 15,000 tracks in my collection (which granted was a slow as hell process and annoying) and have been using it. once you get past the upload process, it's pretty awesome, especially if you have an android device too. today, i just figured out how to scrobble google music plays to last.fm. rad.

check it out if you haven't yet.

music.google.com

"Free for a limited time"

I better not love it too much.

Yeah, Im gonna wait to apple gets theirs off the ground too..

gotta have a few options to compare before commiting.

does it say that? ugh. i thought it was free for up to 20k tracks? i'm not sure i'd pay for this. better to have more local storage, but nobody's doing big capacity anymore.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/goog ... at-i-o-la/

The service is launching in beta today, allowing 20,000 songs, and it'll be free -- "at least while it's in beta."

oh dear.... well, my love affair may end when the beta tag is removed.

That was my main qualm with Amazon's cloud. Though, its free.

try google music. it's free now at least, and the scrobbling is working fantastically. all those swervedriver tracks on my scrobbling widget are from google music!

@dalen: i thought you'd be all over this!

Sure, I'll try it as soon as I get my invite.

id pay a reasonable amount for this. also waiting to see what apple's system looks like.

so this is off-site server storage for your music data files?

Can you download as well as upload?

I'm on the Amazon Cloud System and I kinda love it. Probably pretty similar.

ive been using audiogalaxy...webbased player that has an app for ipod/android as well as allows for plays through browser. scrobbles as well. works great for me. no uploading, just has to scan your library. took about 18 hours for 100K+ tracks

100,000 tracks. wow.

basically. my whole collection is now in the cloud, accessible anywhere.

wow, i need to look into this. awesome.

no. i think goog is rightfully afraid of the copyright infringement risk.

flaws so far:

not allowed to sort the collection via important tag metrics. i hate that. i wish it just had a gd itunes playlilst import feature.

audiogalaxy will also read your itunes playlists...the only thing it wont do is update metrics (play count, ratings)

i'm thinking we have a business in the open metrics game. i seriously need something like this.

no shit.

I havent gotten my invite back for Google Music but I've started using the player anyway.

I have my music backed up on a wireless external hard drive at home and it takes forever to sync music to that. I can't imagine the length of time to use these cloud services. I like the idea in theory, just not sure it is going to be practical and convenient for people like everyone around here with giant collections at this point.

What's the speed of your wireless network? n?

man, i really need to upgrade from osx 10.4, because no programs work anymore. I just don't like 10.5. UGH