I have one google music invitation (sorry, Shoe Ears got first dibs). PM me your email if you want it.
Nevermind. Other sibling snatched up.
If you ever get another, I'd like to chk it.
Will do. :D
WTF is the deal with google doing this stupid "invites" shit every time they come up with some new crap? It's fucking stupid. Like anything to do with the single most ubiquitous company on planet earth is somehow going to be "exclusive".
WTF is google music? :?
Uploads your music to the account and you can listen to it anywhere without syncing your phone and your account (or whatever you're using it on). Here's their annoyingly slick site: http://music.google.com/about/
Quote from: Fuck You One-Eye on July 31, 2011, 06:48:02 AM
WTF is the deal with google doing this stupid "invites" shit every time they come up with some new crap? It's fucking stupid. Like anything to do with the single most ubiquitous company on planet earth is somehow going to be "exclusive".
I was sharing something I like and find useful, that's all.
Quote from: Fuck You One-Eye on July 31, 2011, 06:48:02 AM
WTF is the deal with google doing this stupid "invites" shit every time they come up with some new crap? It's fucking stupid. Like anything to do with the single most ubiquitous company on planet earth is somehow going to be "exclusive".
I think it is how they beta test.
They let you request invitations, so I did.
This is some kind of cloud drive thing, right?
Quote from: Hover Cat on July 31, 2011, 07:07:32 AM
Uploads your music to the account and you can listen to it anywhere without syncing your phone and your account (or whatever you're using it on). Here's their annoyingly slick site: http://music.google.com/about/
Quote from: Fuck You One-Eye on July 31, 2011, 06:48:02 AM
WTF is the deal with google doing this stupid "invites" shit every time they come up with some new crap? It's fucking stupid. Like anything to do with the single most ubiquitous company on planet earth is somehow going to be "exclusive".
I was sharing something I like and find useful, that's all.
Oh, I wasn't directing my bitching at you, it was just a bitchy general observation.
Also, fuck Google in the ear. With a stick.
Cloud computing, in general, is a terrible idea.
I know, it's only music. But wait until the day the music industry gets to check your credit card purchases against your actually owned music. Because it will happen.
And then Google will ban you from every service they provide, and you'll be fucked for forever.
Quote from: Cain on July 31, 2011, 01:37:39 PM
Cloud computing, in general, is a terrible idea.
this x1000.
I like cloud computing because it makes filesharing ridiculously easy, and it's not that hard to just not put anything illegal on a cloud drive.
As far as checking your music against your credit card purchases, they would first have to somehow eliminate cash sales of music as well as music given as gifts. They would have to shift entirely to a non-transferable licensing model of music sales, which I have no doubt the major labels would very much like to do but I don't see much likelihood of successfully ending music sales at concert venues, or globally shutting down storefronts, anytime soon.
:lulz: You think they won't just sue you and let YOU prove your innocence?
I admire your optimism.
Quote from: Fuck You One-Eye on July 31, 2011, 05:16:12 PM
:lulz: You think they won't just sue you and let YOU prove your innocence?
I admire your optimism.
I think the system is fucked enough that they might even get away with it, but I don't think they'll try. Not anytime soon.
I have my Amazon music on their cloud drive. I don't have anything illegal on any cloud drive, anywhere, because that's just stupid.
Ditto. Stupid risk.
Quote from: Cain on July 31, 2011, 01:37:39 PM
Cloud computing, in general, is a terrible idea.
I know, it's only music. But wait until the day the music industry gets to check your credit card purchases against your actually owned music. Because it will happen.
And then Google will ban you from every service they provide, and you'll be fucked for forever.
The great majority of my music is legal and free from the record label that produces it, so I'm not terribly concerned.
I don't think anything on my computer is legal.
I don't like the idea of eventually paying rent for storage space for music you already purchased, which I think is the eventual goal.
And what's going to happen to sites like Trader's Den, Dimeadozen and archive.org when they say everything has to be in a crappy mp3 format on a cloud drive? They'll get my live shows on FLAC out of my cold dead hands..
My problem is much more basic. I can't imagine what would possess people to TRUST FUCKING GOOGLE with all of their data.
I suspect that people who think cloud computing is a great idea are the same people who will be first in line for the two-way vidscreens. You know, the ones that don't come with an "off" button.
Quote from: Fuck You One-Eye on July 31, 2011, 08:16:15 PM
My problem is much more basic. I can't imagine what would possess people to TRUST FUCKING GOOGLE with all of their data.
I don't use Google, I use Dropbox. It's seriously fucking fantastic for files you need to access from another computer. Of course, I only use it for the dryest and most practical of files.
Quote from: Anna Mae Bollocks on July 31, 2011, 08:14:16 PM
I don't like the idea of eventually paying rent for storage space for music you already purchased, which I think is the eventual goal.
And what's going to happen to sites like Trader's Den, Dimeadozen and archive.org when they say everything has to be in a crappy mp3 format on a cloud drive? They'll get my live shows on FLAC out of my cold dead hands..
I don't think they're gonna do that. If they do, I'll dump them in a heartbeat and just buy a larger SD chip.
Quote from: Fuck You One-Eye on July 31, 2011, 08:17:50 PM
I suspect that people who think cloud computing is a great idea are the same people who will be first in line for the two-way vidscreens. You know, the ones that don't come with an "off" button.
Fuck no. It's convenient, that's all.
So are traffic cameras at intersections and RFID chips.
There is that.
they'll have to pry my cassettes and vinyl from my cold, dead hands