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Google Music: Store 20,000 Songs for Free
LCrashdown on 17/11/2011 - 12:29
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Once you sign up and download the software you can upload without proxpn and without the 100KBps limit
just post the link to download the music manager(BELOW), and its not 100KBps sry, its 100Kbps ! lol
http://tiny.cc/b2o5y
Dont post this crap please, you may as well list torrent sites here
Because this is totally different from the free Amazon app thing…
Ozbargain is full of stuff like this, if you want to complain go to the forums, picking and choosing bargains to whine about is pointless.
You complain i complain , guess what we are in the forums. Your whining is equally valuable lol
Yeah, and we also had that free usenet account thing.
Do note that it is not "free music" but free music storage. You still have to either upload your own MP3 archive or buy from Google's music store.
Anything done via proxy using another nations IP is a means of duping the system, which is unethical Scott…
you mean you find it unethical. Doesn't mean everyone else does
@Elijah — I was replying Mikinoz with his comparison to torrent sites, and I am not suggesting nor forbidding people using it. How does that make me unethical?
Personally I won't use it. However Google Music is going to be available to Australians sooner or later, depending on how soon Google can make deals to the music labels.
I was referring to the "Action" the means of doing it as wrong/unethical, not you i missed a ","… lol
Agreed. It's an attempt to bypass a protection, in this case one that's meant to provide Google's suppliers with confidence that Google will protect their intellectual property.
Just because you disagree with the reason for the restriction doesn't automatically give you the right to force your way around it.
Pfft, that sucks. The title really needs to be changed…
It already says "Store 20,000 Songs for Free". I guess people are just mentally highlighting different things :P
Lol, originally it said "Free Music: Store 20,000 Songs for Free".
That's what I was commenting on. It read; get free music and store it online for free as well.
It was a little misleading but all fixed now.It gives you 1-2 free songs every day from popular or emerging artists. I've gotten a fair share of popular artists such as BLue Oyster Cult, Busta Rhythms, Weird Al, Elvis Presley and Good Charlotte.
Excuse my noobiness, but would it be possible to use this on a phone, you can't download the google music app from the market.
Google search Google Music apk and that should work. I think addictivetips has a post about this.
Oh right, I just realised you can use market enabler.
I think that addictive tips one was an older version (4.0.1 I think?) and the one on the market is 4.0.9
or Market enabler. The Addictive tips one already has hints of ICS when I downloaded it. But yeah I think mine is 4.0.1
Hmm, it seems to force close on me everytime I try to play a song. Do you get this?
no I just tried Market enabler method and working fine. I have around 6000 songs on Google Music, maybe you have more and it's putting a load on your phone(SGS2 here). I was having a few problems with the apk force closing a few times a week. I'll have to test this at least a week before telling you more
Hmm, I only put 1 song in a test folder to see if it would before uploading my entire collection. Also tried installing the older 4.0.1 version, but the connect to account thing doesn't seem to pop up. Do you have to use 'set on boot' for market enabler?
hmm dunno if it will make a difference but you are rooted right? And using wifi instead of 3G?
Yep, you need root for market enabler. And yep, on wifi. The songs pop up, but attempting to play will pull up the playing screen, and then trigger a force close.
It seems to work sporadically, sometimes it would work, and other times the song just never finishes buffering (with the little spinning thing). Strange, it works perfectly on the desktop, and if I change the useragent to desktop on my phone, it also seems to work, though the resolution is rather screwed up.
Edit: Just realized it probably had something to do with me setting flash to 'on demand' as oppose to 'always on'. Though keeping the same flash setting but changing my useragent to iphone 4 seems to have worked. Though, this doesn't explain why it wouldn't work in the app.
Even stranger, it seems like downloading the songs before playing them would work (ie clicking 'make available offline'), so it's just something with the streaming process.
Edit2: After a bit of google-ing it turns out that adblock's host file contains something that google music needs or something, so unblocking ads solved the problem.
This has always been free, I've been using it since almost day one and even gave invites to the beta in the forums IIRC.
Not really a deal as such since you can't download your music off the cloud storage thing which is good for streaming but not for sharing music with others
Nice Proxy! Thanks!
Haha, I dnt know how long this is gonna stay up, but ur duping/cheating the system… ;)
EDIT: with proxpn it limits you to 100KBps