Google Music Beta

[Justin Tonation]

I kinda suspected that the real limit was total data instead of songs. I mentioned that in my bug report but their response didn't acknowledge it.

Your advice on cleaning up data is good. I've been extremely meticulous with my metadata; I almost always have to clean up the crap that Gracenote sends. But then, I work in a library. Too bad Music Beta doesn't use the "sort artist" field.

I still wonder what's being streamed back. The specs say that FLACs are transcoded into 320kbps MP3s. If AACs are also transcoded to MP3 then the sound quality will suffer. What I heard streamed in my car was definitely inferior to the ALACs I usually hear.

[HoyaSaxa03]

This is a similar process to what I did.  I basically deleted my entire upload of 23K songs and am now going through my collection album by album to upload.  It's rather therapeutic and allows me to clean up a lot bad data.

My point here is a caution:  use this move to the cloud to clean up a lot of your data.  I spent two days cleaning up my contacts data, photo's and now I'm cleaning up my music.  If you've got a mess in your multiple hard drives, cleaning it up before you move it to the cloud will save you so much headache.

totally agree with you, that's what I'm doing

[vansmack]

Will what you have stored in the cloud be able to serve as a backup if my local storage goes kaput?

Google updated the Music Manager for two way download/upload.  They advertise the service as a back up for your computer crashing:

http://support.google.com/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1233029&ctx=plusone

Notice that if you download it, it will come in a 320kbps file.  I wonder if I uploaded a song at 128kbps, it returns a 320kbps file?  Interesting and off to test.

Now raise the limit or allow me to purchase more and I'm redesigning my server options.