TK Major - 2015-01-08 16:24:35+0000 - Updated: 2015-01-08 16:25:22+0000
An interesting question! Their 'song-matching' system means somewhat reduced carrying costs -- although, I think it only works with stuff G has access to via their All Access arrangements. 20,000 is a lot. But then I don't travel much and I'm thinking those who do probably really do want to 'take it all with them.'
That said, I could imagine Google basically saying, look, we let you store 20,000 of your own for free, but our All Access gives you x billion tracks (with only y billion duplicates)... they may see it as a natural hand off from the free service to paid.
It's just another problem for us hoarder-collectors. I've got about 40k tracks of about 350Gb in total. I don't want to have to choose what gets uploaded and try and manage that manually. An awful lot of it is fairly obscure released as dub plates or short run vinyl so a substantial amount requires a full upload not just matching.
In the same way I'd like to put it all on an iPod but Apple cancelled the Classic and never made the 1TB version I wanted.
I know we're a small market, but music obsessives are real.
So does All Access and Music Key have the same 20k limit on a personal library?
This has a side effect on Chromebooks. Since they don't understand local storage and especially local network storage, you're expected to store everything in the cloud. Except the cloud isn't big enough!
TK Major - 2015-01-08 18:40:37+0000 - Updated: 2015-01-08 18:43:39+0000
The 20k track limit is only on the personal music library. I checked with them but I can now confirm the reality -- my AA 'favorites' (aka My Library) now has over 28k titles in it. (Maybe 4 or 5 hundred of my own uploads.)
[Now, let me say, I only use GPM AA on my desktop, so all my comments below are from that point of view. I did have it on my phone but the ever-expanding internal storage bug made my Android phone unusable. The same bug makes it VERY problematic on my Google Nexus 7 tablet. (Apparently this bug does not affect everyone the same or maybe at all -- even with the same 2012 N7 and similarly large "My Library" collections.) Meanwhile, Google has not been forthcoming about acknowledging these problems desptie the fact that their own 'support' BB is filled with people with the same problem. So, basically, I use it in Chrome on my Win 7 desktop, where it works and there is adequate storage for the service's art and other caching.]
If I was them, I'd encourage big libraries -- because now that I've got that 'investment' the notion of switching to another service would be very, very daunting. (I only switched from MOG because the idiots at Beats shut it down and Beats is, for me, an unusable annoyance. I guess I'm not alone on that, LOL. WTF was Apple thinking. I was almost dumbstruck when I first saw they were buying it. I guess they're bragging about it much anymore.)
Now, I'm not very up on Music Key. I usually stay logged out of it on YT because if you're logged in you can't have multiple YT windows open (complicating stuff like finding a 'good' user upload version of something often duplicated) and even jammed me up once because I had GPM AA open but not playing in another window.
However, they now have a primitive MK integration in GPM AA -- along with the track and album highlights on a given artist's page, there are highlight videos (for a few, anyway) as well that you can click on and watch from GPM AA -- well, it looks suspiciously like they just added a link to a more or less standard YT player that 'pops up' over a grayed out GPM screen. It's OK, I guess.
That said, I could imagine Google basically saying, look, we let you store 20,000 of your own for free, but our All Access gives you x billion tracks (with only y billion duplicates)... they may see it as a natural hand off from the free service to paid.
In the same way I'd like to put it all on an iPod but Apple cancelled the Classic and never made the 1TB version I wanted.
I know we're a small market, but music obsessives are real.
So does All Access and Music Key have the same 20k limit on a personal library?
This has a side effect on Chromebooks. Since they don't understand local storage and especially local network storage, you're expected to store everything in the cloud. Except the cloud isn't big enough!
The 20k track limit is only on the personal music library. I checked with them but I can now confirm the reality -- my AA 'favorites' (aka My Library) now has over 28k titles in it. (Maybe 4 or 5 hundred of my own uploads.)
[Now, let me say, I only use GPM AA on my desktop, so all my comments below are from that point of view. I did have it on my phone but the ever-expanding internal storage bug made my Android phone unusable. The same bug makes it VERY problematic on my Google Nexus 7 tablet. (Apparently this bug does not affect everyone the same or maybe at all -- even with the same 2012 N7 and similarly large "My Library" collections.) Meanwhile, Google has not been forthcoming about acknowledging these problems desptie the fact that their own 'support' BB is filled with people with the same problem. So, basically, I use it in Chrome on my Win 7 desktop, where it works and there is adequate storage for the service's art and other caching.]
If I was them, I'd encourage big libraries -- because now that I've got that 'investment' the notion of switching to another service would be very, very daunting. (I only switched from MOG because the idiots at Beats shut it down and Beats is, for me, an unusable annoyance. I guess I'm not alone on that, LOL. WTF was Apple thinking. I was almost dumbstruck when I first saw they were buying it. I guess they're bragging about it much anymore.)
Now, I'm not very up on Music Key. I usually stay logged out of it on YT because if you're logged in you can't have multiple YT windows open (complicating stuff like finding a 'good' user upload version of something often duplicated) and even jammed me up once because I had GPM AA open but not playing in another window.
However, they now have a primitive MK integration in GPM AA -- along with the track and album highlights on a given artist's page, there are highlight videos (for a few, anyway) as well that you can click on and watch from GPM AA -- well, it looks suspiciously like they just added a link to a more or less standard YT player that 'pops up' over a grayed out GPM screen. It's OK, I guess.
http://9to5google.com/2015/02/25/google-free-song-limit-50000/