Google Play music has upped it's limit to uploading 50k tracks instead of...

Julian Bond - 2015-02-25 19:57:51+0000 - Updated: 2015-02-25 20:00:08+0000

Google Play music has upped it's limit to uploading 50k tracks instead of 20k. This may take some time!

It's still annoyingly hard to upload .pls or .m3u playlist files.

And I still find it hard to understand the benefits of uploading your music to the cloud so you can download it again, played through a web music player that's a lot less effective than a local player.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/25/google-play-music-50000/

Google Play Music now lets you store 50,000 songs in the cloud

Andreas Holzer - 2015-02-25 22:38:02+0000

Totally agree. Why can't they build a software which scans your local library, verifies which songs you have, and gives you access to the same files they already have on their service? I mean, how many copies of "Happy" do they want to store? :-) Even uploading the ~5000 files I have would be painful and take forever on my slow connection.

That would leave some people with a handful of files to upload in case they are not on record.

Julian Bond - 2015-02-25 22:48:47+0000 - Updated: 2015-02-25 22:49:46+0000

+Andreas Holzer It does match at least some of the files. And in that case, they don't get uploaded again, just marked in the database. But I've got a large number of mixes and remixes which it can't recognise. Since it's Google, I'd expect it to get better at this and better at matching as they're database of master copies gets bigger. But even the process of matching the file takes time. Especially if the metadata has been edited from the original.