Michal Marek Google Play Music, Google's popular music service, got a nice upgrade last week. The user can now upload 50 songs to the Google cloud for free and thus have access to them from anywhere. Until now, Google's limit was set to upload 20 thousand songs for free. Unfortunately, the friendliness of Google Play Music stands out most when compared to Apple's iTunes Match, which is a practically identical service, but it does not exist in the free version and the limit for paying users is set at 25 songs.
Google Play Music customers can now store up to 50 songs for free in the cloud storage and access them thanks to the official Google Play Music application from the iPhone and, relatively recently, from the iPad. However, recording of songs as such is only possible from a computer.
Apple's iTunes Match costs $25 per year and offers space for only 600 of your songs. Once you exceed the limit, you won't be able to upload any more songs to the cloud. However, you can still purchase albums for your music collection through iTunes. You can then access the albums purchased in this way from iCloud.
Amazon also offers its paid service in a similar format, even at the same price. However, Amazon Music customers can upload 250 songs to the cloud for a subscription, ten times more than iTunes Match customers. The service also has its own mobile application, but it is not available in our region.
To be fair, iTunes Match has added value over its competition in the iTunes Radio music service, whose premium, ad-free version is free for iTunes Match subscribers. However, not all iTunes Match users have such an advantage. For example, iTunes Radio does not work in the Czech Republic or Slovakia for the time being.
The whole Google play is more user friendly compared to iTunes. Individual albums for purchase are several times half to two-thirds cheaper than the same thing on iTunes. I only buy albums on sale on iTunes, otherwise on Google play.
I have the same thing.
I'm also pondering the prices of GooglePlay versus iTunes. If the album is half price on GP (e.g. 5 EUR versus 10 EUR), then even after deducting Apple's commission (30%), the publisher must give the album to Google at a lower price.
So the question is, why does the publisher charge more for it on iTunes than on GP.
As long as most users pay them for it, they will have it there at these prices. Let the profits start to fall even more (because they are already falling on iTunes) so something can change.
Exactly. I'm still having trouble trusting my Google card, but I'll probably do it eventually. For the price of one album on iTunes, I will buy two or 2,5 on Google, even the very latest ones, and honestly, the booklet on iTunes is not worth the 50% price. Some I haven't seen at all or at most once...
I also noticed that prices are usually cheaper on Google Play. But don't you mind that Google doesn't have the same services as iTunes when buying albums?
If you have Apple TV, iTunes, iOS, all of them are automatically online for free, so you don't need to pay for iTunes match ;-).
Of course, if you don't want to pay at all, then Google Play is "free" because you have to pay for it in writing somewhere, and with us, downloads for your own use are paid = legal.
I guess I don't quite understand the question. I buy songs, download them and have them both on my phone and on home DLNA. I don't really use Apple TV to play music) And if I want to access them online, I have them on Google play. In this particular case, the only extra step is that I can't download the album directly to my phone to iTunes, but I download it to my computer, put it in iTunes, and sync it to my iPhone. Given the often really fundamental price difference, I'm happy to take that one extra step.
You understand well, in short, you don't mind the extra step.
Personally, I don't mind any extra step, because I can download it directly from the store (as long as I pay for it through HW purchases, it's also legal).
The only question is whether the service from Google also does match, which in my opinion is another added value of Apple ... and quite important ...
The only advantage of iTunes Match is that the albums do not have to be stored directly on the computer and you can access them from iTunes. With Google Play only from the browser, which is not it. But for the price that iTunes Match costs, you'd better buy an SD card (if you don't have space) and use Google Play Music. The iPad app is finally here too.
Who hit the 25k tech limit? I think that 25k or 50k doesn't really matter.
Why iTunes or Google Play when Spotify Premium exists?
So I took a look on purpose and I have about 4500 songs, so this limit doesn't bother me. I don't feel like it would be enough and I didn't have anything to listen to..
I play music from iTunes Match both on my phone and in the living room on my Apple TV. The advantage is that iTunes recognized my old mp3s (according to the content, not according to the mp3 tags) and it is possible to replace them for free with technically high-quality versions of the iTunes store.