EDIT: Nothing enticing, thought a lot of huge labels have been secured (No Warner though).
More importantly, it's only available in the US for now, and this one tracks your ip address I believe so you can't access it in Singapore...does that mean a guy from the States travelling overseas can't buy music when he's not back home?
Pffft.
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I think you also can't share the music freely after purchasing.
I know that you can "share" the same way drop box lets us share boxes among each other (that means though that the receiving party needs to have an account too).
From what I've read so far, it doesn't say that you can't copy the music after purchasing, but I do know that older songs purchased during the period where Apple still had DRM cannot be uploaded to Google's cloud storage.
Its a pity. It is a big and welcomed step for them to enter the music market then they have to impose restrictions like that.
No leh that drm restriction was set by apple years before they lifted it, hence music back then downloaded from itunes had to be encrypted by apple to adhere to copyright restrictions. Google can't allow those tracks to be stored in the cloud because Apple's encryption doesn't allow it to be played anywhere else except on your itunes, not even on other people's itunes.
Can't find anything on music being downloaded from google having restrictions though, where did you read that?
If I buy a song from iTunes now, I can pass it around to anyone and they can play in their iTunes without any authorization.
Read from the papers that google music can only share with those with google+ account or something like that.
Oh, no la that is the legal term for "share". You can "share" those tracks with your friends on google plus, meaning you can let then hear the song once when you share it. ( http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-music-store.html)
But you can actually still download it and (the other type of) share it with your friends.
It works different from itunes. While itunes you buy a song and it gets downloaded into your computer, when you buy a song from google music, it doesn't download into your computer, it gets stored in your cloud storage, with the option to download the music to your computer (twice only).
Apple's itunes match embraces cloud storage and playing of your music via cloud but at a price, google offers that same storage but for a lot cheaper, free for the first 20,000 songs in fact.
The restriction for the end user though is that you can only download your song from google music twice.
I thought about their policy that you only get up download your purchased track twice from google music and it seem to suck at first, but when I think about it I never really found myself having to re-download my music off itunes either...the two-times download policy probably suits those that download it the first time so that they can play that song even without and wifi or 3g connection and a second time if they're computer crashes and deletes all their downloaded tracks.
I think google music will definitely appeal to people who don't want a tonne of music taking up space in their computer and still be able to listen to their music via internet, it'll also appeal to those who do want music stored on their computer, it'll also appeal to those who want to (the less legal type of) share their music.
I think it's current fall is that it hasn't signed on with Warner music, which can be a blow to it moving forward.
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