[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
I looked at your earlier post again and I think I see the problem. You are comparing Play Music with iTunes or any other "pay for play" service or as a store to "buy" music from. 99¢ per song may sound cheap, but add it up for a serious music collector, it gets into the thousands of dollars and not only that, it is NEVER in mp3 format, always some DRM laden package so the store has total control of what you can do with your newly purchased music. "Play it only on the device you downloaded it on", ONLY can burn CDs twice, CANNOT share it with a friend, etc., so on, and so forth. THAT is why I HATE iTunes.

You just don't "get it", do you my friend? Play Music does not rely on mainstream, cataloged or sale songs, discs, or albums. You could have 2,000 mp3 files with names and content like Chat with Grandson age 4 03-27-2006.mpg Now is that available for retail, No. Is it something that many people would want?, No. Can any company, anywhere, make money on such recordings? No.

Are these 2,000 mp3 files important? You bet your ass they are, to YOU and your family. Google Play Music is setup for music because Google, Amazon, and Microsoft who is drooling over the success of iTunes, to "get a piece of the action". So, you use the Play Music desktop interface, put these recordings in a folder, browse for them with the desktop app and choose to add that folder to your music collection.

To test this, I use a fantastic free alarm clock, called, what else, Free Alarm Clock. I cannot live without this thing. It wakes me up anytime, has as many alarms as you want/need, can use the build in alarms or let's you pick any mp3 song you have and want to wake up to, as loud or low as you want. Wakes the PC from sleeping, overrides the current volume setting and puts the alarm volume to where it was when you set it. Even if the PC is set to Mute. So if you want Jimi Hendrix screaming "Purple Haze" at 69 dB in your bedroom, I can assure you WILL get out of bed to stop or snooze it. Once up, I am up and this thing works! It does come with it's own 13 mp3 alarms, they are in Program Files (x86), NOT in My Music for testing I put the mp3 files into a test folder, I:\Bench\Free Alarm Clock\Sounds. They are NOT a subfolder of My Music, nor are they music at all. But Play Music added them just the same and within minutes, I was listening to Bells2 on both my PC and my Android Cell Phone in Play Music and they were exactly the same.

The point is, Google Play Music will upload, stream, and save anything you want to the device in either internal or external SD card. Does not matter if it is Michael Jackson Thriller or "my pet chihuahua farting.mp3", Now, Michael Jackson Thriller may be popular, top the charts, and have plenty of cover and other art available for it. I seriously doubt that "my pet chihuahua farting.mp3" would be popular, have album art, or art of any kind. I doubt that anyone in the world ever heard of it, wants to hear of it, or would listen if you paid them to. "The Farting Chihuahua" CD might have 17 tracks on it, like so...

Quick one

Holding it in

On Fire!

7 second splooshe

Tripple Pop

Wet One

...you get the picture, enough of this.

The point is that it is YOUR "music" (Or whatever the hell kinds of sounds you feel is important. An entomologist might find the sounds of different insects interesting.), YOU want to hear it, and YOU want to use Play Music to listen to it on your phone. I just proved it with my alarm clock mp3 set.

I sent you 4 screen shots.

My 13 alarm clock default alarm sounds.

8 of the newly added "songs" Uploading.

A new folder has been added to my Play Music desktop app called "Sounds". This additional folder will be monitored for changes and the change will reflect in Andriod on Play Music.

A picture of Play Music with new content added, I went through the list to find Bells1, played it on the phone and played it on the PC. They are identical.

Now I have to find and delete all that crap because I really do not want alarm clock sounds mixed in with my music. Actually this was not bad at all. I simply deleted the I:\Bench\Free Alarm Clock\Sounds and the folder and contents were gone. When I looked at the Play Music desktop app, the Sounds folder it was including and monitoring was gone, almost instantly, because it no longer exists. Man, Google really got it right with Play Music! (Unless they say one day "trial period ran out, pony up for a subscription. I don't think so, they did say that up to 20,000 songs were free Maybe a 45 minute song like "Thick As A Brick" does not count? Who knows.)

Dude, if this does not convince you that Anything you add to Play Music will be uploaded and available for streaming to your device, then nothing will and

I give up!

I am done with the whole Google Play Music thing. I does what I want, I am very happy with it, it does not eat up space on my phone, it can use songs kept on your phone and add them to the library to play if you wish, and it will even save to your External SD Card if you wish. All of this is FREE! What more do you want? :confused:

I really, really hoped that this cleared up any misconceptions about Play Music. I went to bat for everybody today and did a LOT of testing on it. It passes all of my tests with flying colors. Time for a pre-bedtime snack. I have to make it quick because I have one of those really crappy blood tests in the morning where you cannot even have a sip of juice or coffee until all is said and done and this makes me, very, very grumpy. ...until I finally get that first sip of warm coffee. Ahhhh. And maybe a couple of scrambled eggs with a toasted English Muffin, if it is not too much trouble. Mmmmmm!

Goodnight all! :good: