Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Music Beta by Google Hands-on Day 2

After about three and a half hours, I finally have about 2.5 GB worth of music up on Google's cloud. Now that the music is up on the cloud, how do I access it? That's a simple a simple question to answer, just go to music.google.com in any web browser.

Music beta by Google has a fairly basic looking media player interface. You have the option to sort your music by songs, artists, albums or genre. I prefer to listen to albums in their entirety so I tend to sort by artists then select the albums I want to listen to. Selecting an album is fairly easy you just click on the album artwork which then shows you the track listing from there you just select a song and hit play. It seems fairly idiot proof.

I didn't really do too much today to challenge Music beta, all I did was listen to two albums in their entirety. As I use Music beta the rest of the week I will try creating playlists and instant mixes (whatever those are). So far I am fairly satisfied with Google's cloud music player but not 100% certain it will replace my iPod.

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