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Keep upto 50,000 songs in Google Play for free

Free Google Play3 May 16

Source: HotUKDeals | Freebies > Mobiles

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soulreaverbny

3 May 16

I don't think this is a new offer but I haven't seen it posted before.

Upload your music collection to your Google Music account and you can listen to it on any of your devices that has access to Google Music. Up to 50,000 songs can be stored!

Summary from website:-

It only takes a few minutes to start uploading your music collection to Google Play.

Keep up to 50,000 songs in Google Play for free.
Add your collection from iTunes, Windows Media Player or folders.
Listen on the web or your mobile devices without the hassle of wires or syncing.

To get started, download Music Manager below. Music Manager is a simple application for adding music files on your computer to Google Play

Guide:-

Use Music Manager to upload your favorite songs from your computer to your Google Play library. You can upload up to 50,000 songs and listen on your mobile device, computer, or Android TV.

Note: If you're using Chrome, try uploading your music with Google Play Music for Chrome instead of Music Manager.
Download and install Music Manager

On your computer, go to the Music Manager download page.
Click Download Music Manager.
Follow the installation directions.

Set up Music Manager

Open Music Manager from your Applications folder (Mac) or from the Start menu (Windows).
Sign in to your Google account.
Select the location of your music collection.
Follow the on-screen setup instructions.

Top comments

K0YS

3 May 16 16 #6

someone should post Skype allows you to make free calls to other Skype users.

susieqt

3 May 16 15 #2

good to remind people or let folk know if they haven't seen it before - thanks

madzippy

3 May 16 3 #3

great thanks, i had no idea you go do this :smiley:

Dave

3 May 16 3 #4

I remember many an hour lost to trying to get this to work properly in it's early days :neutral_face:

Latest comments (44)

Farhan007

9 May 16 #44

Unless you post it on a public forum. No.

vorapa

9 May 16 #43

been using this for some time, though it does cut the end of some songs. not by a lot and most people will probably not notice it.

Rothko9

8 May 16 #42

Good free ripping tools can be found here:http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-cd-ripper.htm

mb1

5 May 16 1 #41

Mediamonkey is extremely good at sorting out MP3 collections.

ThunderBolt

5 May 16 #40

So how many years did you get then? Heheh...

Russonf

5 May 16 #39

any Play supported format afaik

imdurc

5 May 16 #38

Is this MP3 only?

vidl

5 May 16 2 #37

No. Often you'll find the quality will improve. When you flag a file for upload, Google's servers will check if that file is already online in its Play "library". If so, rather than waste your bandwidth uploading your file, it'll "copy" the file it already has into your personal library. SO, if you attempt to upload, say, a file encoded at 128K and Google already has it in Play, you may find the version you end up with is 320K.

secretspartan1

5 May 16 #36

I thought one of the reasons torrents exist is because of the loophole which says you're allowed to download the music if you own a physical copy already, it'd be difficult for google to prove you didn't, it is a curious question though.

davey_cole

4 May 16 1 #35

Cheers mate

jasandry

4 May 16 2 #34

Two bits of software standout. They are CDex and EAC. The Audiophiles found on the HydrogenAudio forums prefer EAC so that's the one I'd suggest. You then got to decide on a source for Metadata. Haven't used EAC for a while, but look for a way to access the MusicBrainz database (might be through CTDB plugin). Then you've got to decide on the audio format, which is likely to be mp3. EAC should show you how to create mp3 using Lame

Nemeus

4 May 16 2 #33

I posted this as a deal over a year ago the same day it changed from 20,000 to 50,000 songs! At the time I was getting perilously close to the 20,000 limit. But someone decided it was not a deal and it got moved to the Entertainment section and got no heat. Then, someone with the same idea posted it again later that day and it went super hot, like 900+ degrees.

I still have nightmares about that day. Those badges I could have earned...

I use Exact Audio Copy (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) with the Lame encoder. A bit fiddly to set up, but I keep default settings. Usually I use default ID3 information and then correct it once uploaded to Google Play, including album art.

Heat added, great to remind people what a deal this is.

ldx00

4 May 16 1 #32

EAC

dazza1011

4 May 16 #31

Not a new deal but i find microsofts groove music a better option had issues of google replacing sweary rap songs with censored version which is annoying also absouiltly sucked my bandwidth when uploading from my PC

ddotp

4 May 16 #30

No problem for me a few years ago.

elephantsoup1

4 May 16 #29

They could check the tags on the mp3 eg: some "warez" groups add their signature etc to the comments tags.

K0YS

4 May 16 #28

maybe via meta data.

alex_dis

4 May 16 #27

Are you asking on behalf of a 'friend'? :wink:

I wouldn't have thought so. Even if they did scan the files, how would they be able to distinguish between legal, illegal, itunes, google etc?

drummerdickens

4 May 16 1 #26

I might post a deal reminding people that you can borrow books for free from your local library.

DoctorZed

4 May 16 #25

Thanks OP, I wasn't aware of this.
Is there any compression/loss of quality?

jonathanpi

4 May 16 #24

Didn't know this. Thanks for sharing :man:

HotUkDale

4 May 16 #23

Worth a look! heat added thanks :smiley:

davej798

4 May 16 #22

heat from me op because i didn't know about it. whats this skype thingamijig KOYS

Swarfega

4 May 16 1 #21

http://cdex.mu/

It will use CDDB to generate the ID3 tags too.

hypnoticstate

4 May 16 #20

What about people who upload illegally downloaded music? Any way they could get found out using this?

lifeandsoulpres

4 May 16 1 #19

I had no idea you could this. and that Skype thing sounds interesting too. seriously tho thanks!

K0YS

3 May 16 16 #6

someone should post Skype allows you to make free calls to other Skype users.

WAWG to K0YS

4 May 16 1 #18

Do they?

davey_cole

4 May 16 #17

Shame it doesn't have a CD ripping tool built in. Anyone suggest a good free one? Got about 400 to do.

decreator

3 May 16 #9

be careful if you are using this as a backup for your collection i have a lot of drum & bass and sometimes it matches different mixes or shortened tracks to your original full length track, apart from that it is useful.

Reisclef to decreator

4 May 16 #16

Yes, this has been posted before, but google haven't advertised it in ages, nor have I seen a post about it. I'd say it's fair to post it again. Been using it for years. Surprised more people don't use it honestly. Even before I was an android user, Google music easily became my player of choice.

You know you can revert it to the original uploaded song through the menu, yeah?

Swarfega

4 May 16 2 #15

There's an app you can download that you point at the folder where your music resides. It will crawl this folder and each time you add music to it, it will sync to the cloud.

For those not in the know Google Photo's does the same thing. If you have no backup of your photos at the very least use Google Photo's to store them in the cloud. Price? Free. Amount of storage that you get for free? Unlimited.
It's not just for Android users. All my friends on iPhones also started using it. You get the added benefit of having access to all your photos wherever you are.

No I don't work for Google but having an offsite copy of all my music and photos for free is a no brainer.

Dar22

4 May 16 #12

So you can re-download any of the uploaded songs whenever you want in the future?

limpwaster to Dar22

4 May 16 1 #14

Yes, you can. There has a restriction on the number of authorised machines you can download to though (to prevent people just using it to share all their music with friends)

ddotp

4 May 16 #13

Aye, same, been wanting to do a clear up for a while but free Deezer from Three is holding me back. Better sort it before my Deezer runs out.

matedodgy

3 May 16 #11

Thanks for posting. Didn't know about this.

crankup

3 May 16 1 #10

Totally the same. I'm tempted to delete it all and start the upload again. It's a good offer though, I pushed up over 18000 tracks. Creating offline playlists is a favourite feature with it for me. Good to remind people of the offer too.

humadoon

3 May 16 1 #7

that means those who download music from here and there should be worried about the meta data.

ddotp to humadoon

3 May 16 #8

There is software to help but my collection is a complete mess on Play music. Compilation albums are particularly bad.

moshixmoshi

3 May 16 #5

well it's news to me so heat for you

Dave

3 May 16 3 #4

I remember many an hour lost to trying to get this to work properly in it's early days :neutral_face: