What are people's experience dealing with the migration of music from iOS to android? As an iOS user with an itch to checkout android again (had one of the first HTC "google phones"), this is one of my bigger concerns.
No cables. No sync. No fucking iTunes. No computer required. Just internet. Done.
If you feel old-fashioned, you can also just copy files to your device as a standard MTP or mass-storage device using USB-cables, or copy to SD-cards.
As long as the music files are properly tagged you should have everything auto-discovered on the device.
Also I noticed some mistakes with generic album titles, such as "Unknown Album" - selecting an artist, then their album titled "Unknown" would usually play all the titles that don't have an album title, even the ones by entirely different artists.
That being said, it beats iTunes by miles.
Nice completely inaccurate rant. Oh yeah, and Google Music matches at 320Kbps.
I actually have a Google Music account that I use in addition to iTunes Match, so I'm actually one of the few here not bullshitting my knowledge on the topic. For the record, I would trade a basically unnoticeable quality boost for an extra 5000 tracks of space any day.
You also conveniently avoided the fact that to use the less functional Google Music web client to actually DO anything, you have to upload all your music first via the shitty uploader. Which still gives you no way of managing uploading except managing a list of folders by hand.
Whereas with iTunes Match, I can download an album, clean the tags in iTunes while it's matching, and it'll be available on my phone in seconds. With the 25000 song storage space I don't need to do any managing. It all fits with plenty of breathing room.
Nice completely inaccurate reply, though. Next time try downloading iTunes next time instead of assuming it's 4x the size it actually is. Which speaks volumes as to your level of knowledge on the topic BTW.
Oh, and of course there is this: http://cl.ly/image/2P3u2C04062V
So to even use Google Music in this far off, backwards land of Canada I have to maintain a separate Google account for that purpose that is set to United States.
Apple treats Canada like a first class citizen, typically the second or 3rd launch market. Google frequently forgets we even exist and took literally years to allow people to sell apps here, and they STILL haven't brought Google Music over. Meanwhile iTunes Match has been active in something to the tune of 50 countries for almost a year now, with matching available from day one.
I'm sorry you live in Canada, and I'll concede that 25K>20K.
What the hell else do you want me to say? I'll still take a wireless sync and app install system every single day of the week over iTunes.
iTunes does this once, when you add the music, and the only reason Google Music doesn't do this is because you can only add music so slowly that it has plenty of time to process each track.
You think Google Music doesn't need to index? I don't even know what to say to that.
> consuming tons of memory, locking out my MP3 player if I plug it into a different machine and doesn't require large client updates.
Clearly you haven't used an iOS device or iTunes in years. None of this is true anymore, and hasn't been since the days of the iPod. Great job though.
> I'm sorry you live in Canada
I'm sorry Google failed geography class. Living in Canada is awesome.
> What the hell else do you want me to say?
Something accurate or based in the last 5 years? Apparently that's out of your purview though.
> I'll still take a wireless sync and app install system every single day of the week over iTunes.
Jesus, iTunes is nowhere close to that bad. You really are living in 2007 aren't you? The backup and restore system iTunes offers so thoroughly trounces anything Android has to offer, it's worth it for that alone.
Sounds promising. Thanks for the info.
The older stuff, which is encrypted (m4p), can't be played. However, you can just remove the DRM using any of the available DRM removers, with no loss (they are just removing the encryption, not transcoding).
But you can pay a little more and Apple will provide non-DRM versions.
I am using iSync on the Nexus 4 to sync to my iTunes. But it's not quite the same. And the nexus doesn't have star ratings, just thumbs up or down.
I use star ratings to delete music from library. 1 star = delete.