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Google Expands Free Cloud Music Storage to 50,000 Songs (Up from 20,000)

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tightarse on 26/02/2015 - 10:35 play.google.com (2115 clicks)
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Today we are expanding the music storage limit on Google Play. Now you can store 50,000 songs (previously 20,000) for free and stream or download them them to your phone, tablet, computer or Chromecast.

Announcement here and more info here.

To claim:

  • Sign in to Google Play Music - Go to your computer and visit http://play.google.com/music. Sign in with your Google account if needed.

  • Claim your free storage - If you’d like to try our subscription service too, click Get Started. Otherwise, click No Thanks to continue with the free storage.

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  • auna on 26/02/2015 - 19:37
    -1

    What's the appeal to this over just using Dropbox or similar and downloading the songs you need before you play? This isn't Japan where I can get 25gb a month data in my plan and have perfect reception almost everywhere.

    EDIT: Conversion!?!?! Gets a super neg from me.

    • stripe on 26/02/2015 - 19:53
      +1

      Probably because it has its own player and (very) good apps so that it's like a full featured music player/library accessible from any internet connected device. I imagine using dropbox to play music is pretty clunky on mobile..

    • eug on 26/02/2015 - 23:00
      +1

      What's the appeal to this over just using Dropbox or similar and downloading the songs you need before you play?

      Dropbox doesn't give you ~350GB for free. They also don't do song matching so you actually have to upload the songs as regular files.

      Also, you can cache playlists for offline access with Play Music.

  • nicksinternet on 27/02/2015 - 07:54

    Will only offer me 20,000 songs. Can't get 50,000.

  • Ozimodo on 27/02/2015 - 08:55
    +1

    Doesn't work on my PC. Logs in ok but doesn't display the offer anywhere.

  • hetzjagd on 27/02/2015 - 19:53

    Good deal but anyone else having the Music Manager software crashing frequently? How am I supposed to uploaded 150gb of mp3s if I can't leave it unattended for more than an hour?

    Running Windows 8.1

    edit
    a quick google suggests i'm not alone. This thread has a work around involving indexing all your music via windows media player. ugh ugly https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/apps/-gV_yPh-K6…

    • hetzjagd on 27/02/2015 - 22:52

      Nope still stuck. Added everything into Windows Media Player (~25,000 songs) and no problem. Set Music Manager to upload from Windows Media Player, chugged along happily on the 'preparing to add your music' screen until 95%, now it is hammering my harddrive for about 20 minutes but will not progress past that point. Googled for those symptoms and got nothing. Pretty disappointing.

      edit

      closed and reopend the software, went through the same prompts to add music from Windows Media Player and now it skipped straight through to uploading songs. odd software but probably exacerbated by my sometimes odd computer. I hope these posts help anyone else in the same situation, don't give up

      • hetzjagd on 28/02/2015 - 00:30

        still crashing. I don't have any outstanding issues with any other applications or performance with my computer. it will be my computer that is doing this but it is still the only software I'm having problems with and that I can't find any solution for so far

        • hetzjagd on 28/02/2015 - 07:57
          +1

          install google play music in Chrome, give it all the permissions it asks for, upload without any crashes

  • TightAssDrake on 01/03/2015 - 00:11

    So how long do you guys reckon it will take to upload my 200gb music collection?

    • hetzjagd on 03/03/2015 - 23:47

      well how fast is your upload speed?

      • TightAssDrake on 04/03/2015 - 08:38

        100kb/s at best

        • Shonky on 04/03/2015 - 08:50

          Assuming you mean 100kB/sec (i.e. kilobytes/sec not kilobits/sec) then 23 days going flat strap for 200GB ((200 000 000 / 100) / 86400).

          200GB is a hell of a lot of music. How much do you really use? You bought all of that? That's nearly 2 years of music at 320kbps…

        • hetzjagd on 04/03/2015 - 10:17

          Sounds like you're in the same boat as me except mine is more like 150gb I think. It's not easy to tell but I don't think I have benefitted from the music being in google's database already thing where it skips the upload. Either it is going for an exact hash match or it takes almost as long to determine the hash and index the file as it does to just upload it as the few times I've been watching I haven't really seen anything flying up faster than I would expect.

          I started on Thursday night or Friday night and I've been pausing it on occaisions and I'm about 10,000 of ~24,700 songs in so far.

        • SteveAndBelle on 04/03/2015 - 11:52

          @hetzjagd: Yep, same experience I had the last time I uploaded my collection (a couple of years ago). The promised music match system didn't seem to work and the reason I know is because I had uploaded the collection before and it took the exact same time (2.5-3 weeks).

        • hetzjagd on 06/03/2015 - 16:31
          +1

          @SteveAndBelle:

          I'm even more confused now. My music seems to sound like crap yet the majority of it is showing in the info as being 320k bitrate. As none of what I uploaded was FLAC and 99% was lower than 320k originally on my computer, it suggests that it has matched it - however so much of it sounds low quality. I'm really not sure what is happening. Does Google Play perhaps downsize the quality of the stream if it thinks it is needed?

          edit

          Nevermind I think it was having siwtched to the experimental HTML5 player that was making it 'sound' bad quality. Still it seems to have matched a tonne of my music which is great but it seems to take about as long to match as it would to upload. Can't complain given the quality upgrade though. Now to redownload it all to replace my crappier original files..

        • eug on 06/03/2015 - 17:56

          @hetzjagd: Also if streaming on your mobile (as opposed to playing back a cached playlist) over 3G/4G, you can set the mobile network stream quality in Play Music's settings.

    • eug on 03/03/2015 - 23:58

      If most of your music collection is also in Google's database, it won't take long at all as if there's an audio fingerprint match, the file itself doesn't have to be uploaded. It'll just be added to your account online.

  • whirlpool_guy on 06/03/2015 - 10:20

    I tried uploading my 10,000+ songs iTunes library. The upload finished but there're a lot of tracks missing in google. Is there a way to re-scan and re-upload the missing tracks?

    Mind you that was done over a year ago. Perhaps the upload process is more reliable now?

    • eug on 06/03/2015 - 17:56

      Check the logs in the app to see if the missing songs are listed there. I have a bunch of songs that are DRM-protected which it skipped.

      • whirlpool_guy on 07/03/2015 - 15:29

        None of my files has DRM.

        Most of the missing tracks are Apple Lossless files. E.g. A 10-tracks album could have one or two tracks randomly missing.

        Is there a way to "reset" the Google music library and re-upload everything?

  • hetzjagd on 09/03/2015 - 00:23

    Ugh, now my upload shows as still uploading but hasn't added anything since 8pm Thursday. The animation is still moving and it says Added 16649 of 24673 but it won't progress. I've refreshed the playlist, logged out and back in, restarted the computer - nothing. This is really some pretty limited software

  • ConnanyIrsh on 16/03/2015 - 05:41

    Thank you for this share :}

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