I just read a TechCrunch post on this Google Music Locker thing that is supposed to launch tomorrow.
For me, personally, this is very exciting news! I have always thought it would be a neat thing to have, all your songs somewhere in the cloud and be able to access them from multiple devices (vs. carrying your iPod around everywhere). So now that I see this Google service is about to launch, I am excited about it!
I am excited about this for the same reason that I really, really like my iPod.
Capacity.
Yep, I love having my entire music collection accessible and not stuck on my desktop at home. Hey, It took me a long time and a bunch of effort to digitize my music collection to MP3s! I want to be able to enjoy them far and wide! If there was suddenly a way to play all my music over a variety of devices (computer and mobile), I would be really stoked. It sounds like this new service will be exactly that.
But the most important thing is I will be able to load all my music onto the service! It is reported that each Google Music account will be able to store 20,000 songs! I have a ton of music, but not that many songs! This means, my ENTIRE music collection will be in the cloud. Seriously, this is so cool!
Capacity is also also the reason I did not like the Amazon Cloud Player. I did not like it because of the 5 MB limits. I have way more music than 5MB, and honestly, it is not worth it to upload the full 5 MB. Yes, I have uploaded a couple of albums just to test the service, but I don’t find it very practical to use at this time.
So, yeah, I am excited! I think this is going to be big! I predict that this might be the foundation for Google to “get social right”, as music is all about being social!
There you have it! A blog post! Yeah, it has been awhile, but I thought this would be a good topic to write about and to get my thoughts out there before this bad boy actually launches tomorrow as all the rumors say!