Everyone’s new favorite cloud streaming music app (Google Music) has an update available in the market that brings one major feature which was curiously missing from the start: song deleting. If you have been making songs available offline, you have been unable to remove them afterwards – well until now. All you have to do us go back into your “Make available offline” settings and unpin whatever you want removed. It should wipe them out of your cache folder after doing so.
Cheers Mark!
We first reported news that invites for Music Beta were being sent out to Motorola XOOM owners last week, but as of today, it’s looking like Google has opened the flood gates to almost everyone. While I’ve been using the service for a week (and love it) thanks to an exclusive invite for attending Google I/O, another of my email addresses just received an invite. Also, our very own Timotato just got his as well as a ton of our followers on Twitter. It’s looking like a good day for music fans. Check those inboxes!
Cheers everyone!
If you had any questions about Music Beta by Google, then you’ll want to check out this overview video. You’ll also want to make sure you sign up for an invitation and grab the new 3.0 Music player.
All signs point to Google finally announcing the first piece to a music service this week as a cloud storage similar to what we’ve seen from Amazon. According to reports, the service will be dubbed Music Beta by Google and will offer users enough space to load up to 20,000 of their songs into the “cloud” for free. Yep, it crushes Amazon’s 1,000 song for free setup. Motorola XOOM owners (Verizon version) will be one of the first sets of people to receive an invitation to Music Beta, while others will have to sign-up and hope to get an invite.
The tricky situation here is that Google is apparently proceeding to open this new cloud-based service without the consent of record labels just as Amazon did. They’ve run into problems securing contracts, but they need to get this service up since we all know that Apple is preparing one of their own in the coming weeks.
We’re here in San Fran, so if this news drops, we’ll have it for you!
Via: NY Times
According to “music industry sources,” Google has started internal testing of Google Music which has everyone speculating that the service is almost ready for prime time. Employees are apparently running around using the service, one that resembles the mysterious syncing we saw from the leaked music app a few weeks ago. There is a good chance though, that the final product will be much different. (Wait, what product? Wasn’t it just a mysterious cloud syncing? Moving on…) There is no telling when we could see the service debut, but this dog-fooding is usually a good sign that we’re close. (+1 for use of dog-fooding)
Maybe a Google I/O unveiling? We can only hope.
From Android Life
