Indeed. Disturbing but inevitable. Music started being FREE with Napster which changed the way the industry makes profits. Anyone unaware of this is leading a blinkered life and a very short career in music.

Too little too late. This is doomed. For one thing, you need to own the music and if you already own
the music you would have copied it onto an SD card or hard drive.
Secondly Spotify allows you to do this and much more for a tenner a month so I really don't get this
nor do I get the reaction to it. Subscription is where it's at.

Jaded and Bored wrote:
Too little too late. This is doomed. For one thing, you need to own the music and if you already own
the music you would have copied it onto an SD card or hard drive.
Secondly Spotify allows you to do this and much more for a tenner a month so I really don't get this
nor do I get the reaction to it. Subscription is where it's at.

The main differences as I see them:

1. For free Google host it for you, you don't need it on an SD card or hard disk.
2. For free Google stream it to you, not like Spotify who charge monthly.
3. You own it, unlike Spotify where once you stop paying the subscription fee you have nothing.

Now, on the last point. Google scans your hard drive, recognises the tracks then adds them to your virtual collection in the cloud. How is it know if the tracks were obtained legally? So, download what you want illegally, or get your mates to stick all their Mp3 collections on a USB stick for you, have Google scan it all, then you OWN IT and can listen to it without limits, anywhere, FOR FREE.

You won't pay for the music, or pay to store it, or pay to access it.

It's a nightmare; the GOOD part is - recording and making music now costs far less, so the costs no longer need to be covered by sale income.
The BAD part is - as a result, every loser thinks they are talented and there's no way - yet - of separating the wheat from the chaff.

What nonsense JK. Every loser always had a chance. You forgetting how many hits you had.
Hardly Lennon/McCartney are you. This is fantastic now with a level playing field, the end
of payola and transparency. Also marketing a record isn't exactly easy even though it is
possible for everyone to achieve once they KNOW how and also you would still need to spend
money and if you have the right record you can do well. Would you like to deny the opportunity
for those who would have been locked out by the gatekeepers? As for separating the wheat
from the chaff, well it works the same way it always had. Word of mouth. You can't keep a good
song down. Also last time I looked, radio, tv and press haven't exactly closed have they?

JK2006 wrote:
there's no way - yet - of separating the wheat from the chaff.They've tried JK, they even banged some poor guy up for 4 years but on release he found a new outlet via Youtube....

K wrote:
venturebeat.com/2012/10/29/google-blows-...gital-music-water-in

SpyTunes more likely.

Yes; I love this "we will access your computer" idea; what next? They will place crap on your computer - which you don't have to pay for (unless you fail to delete it, of course).

JK2006 wrote:
Yes; I love this "we will access your computer" idea; what next?
Nothing new, iTunes does this as does Spotify and many other programs hooked up to the net.