Google Play Music (RIP)

[Jonas]

You cannot purchase music, can you?

 

[Sushubh]

supposedly you could. would you pay a dollar a song?

 

[Jonas]

Yes.

 

[Sushubh]

cool. i would probably not pay 60 rupees per song.

 

[madhusudhan7]

I've been buying music from Flute for sometime now but wanted some kind of a service which could allow me to convert all the downloaded music into paid/legal stuff for a reasonable price. I wouldn't pay in lakhs but say 5-10k for around 2-3k songs can be considered fair enough. Especially when most of this is pretty old music & I can't even find everything I need in FlipkartI read somewhere that such an option was available with some cloud based music storage service with Apple iTunes etc, but I don't really prefer Apple for any purchase because there is always an alternative with a much lesser pricing option

 

[Sushubh]

from what i understand Apple is charging an yearly fee to do so? google seems to be offering it for free. of course both assume that you are going to use their service for legit music files.In other words, neither of these service convert pirated music into legit music for a fixed fee. What they do is make your offline media available online for streaming for a fee without requiring you to upload it all on their servers.

 

[manu1991]

I am not sure how this works but according to them you get access to all their songs (200,000+) for 99 bucks a month?
Hungama

I am presuming the songs have some sort of DRM.

 

[Sushubh]

someone talked about their service in the flyte thread i think. and they said that songs are low quality stuff. and probably without DRM. have not tried so cannot confirm.

 

[madhusudhan7]

Huh, the article if I remember claimed that they do literally convert everything into legit stuff !The article also claimed that Apple has partnered with several music companies to provide this serviceSomeone should offer such a service, I'm sure that there'll be lot of takers

 

[Sushubh]

nope. what they are doing is making songs from their own database available to your account. so you can sync it directly from itunes and play to your devices. no more uploading media from your own collection for syncing. it is aimed for users who have converted their CD collections to MP3 and so on. you get same access to this media online as they become part of your itunes/play accounts. but it does not really magically convert pirated songs to legit ones. at least not officially. of course, they are not going to ask for proof of ownership so you can go ahead with the 'conversion' but that is not what these services are offering officially.they need partnerships for offering this service because of the rights to offer official copies of songs to the users. Apple is charging for this. google is not. not sure about Amazon. music companies of course do not like where this technology is going because there is no way to stop you from downloading million songs from the net and then adding it to your google play/apple itunes account for free/cheap.