My music was the last frontier that made it into the cloud; seemed like everything else already had a cloud counter-part; but I'm from the old-school MP3 class, where we used to rip them tracks ourselves, upload them on napster or kazaa, then convert MP3s back to Wav tracks and burn them back onto CDs. Then came Winamp, the laptop replaced the stereo, the infinite playlist, MP3 CD players came out, then MP3 portable players, we each had 10 different solutions on how to play MP3 in our cars, iPods and the rest was history.
I like to keep my music close and personal; I like it reachable and accessible when I need it, and even though I kind of had to start the entire collection over with the Android; I do not want to have to keep finding all my life sound-tracks every ten years with the advent of the next technology.
I'd heard of Google Music before, when it was in beta, but I didn't like the idea of having to upload all my music on some cloud, then having to download them again. But with the G-Nex, I bit the bullet and did it; and since last week, I haven't look back one bit.
Now with 4G and an internet connection virtually wherever I go; there is no reason why I should have to store anything on my devices ever again. And if I really want to, I can make certain tracks available off-line. I love the idea of accessing my music from any web-browser; there are a ton of free tracks available everyday, and I just love how the program fills-in the missing cover art. Google Music gives each account 20,000 tracks; which is more than enough; seeing how, half if my MP3s are actually hour long (50 megs+) radio programs.
A few other things that I like about Music, automatic playlist generators when you thumbs up a certain song and check out this album cover carrousel...
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