The great macdebate (now with roids)

[cRacKh0rN]

I got my (second) Kindle Fire HD today (first one had bad screen bleed).

I can't get the Amazon Music Importer to work which is a shame. It keeps complaining about Adobe Air in an infinite loop.
No Cloud music for me then
*looks at iTunes with dejected look*

[markedkiller78]

*looks at iTunes with dejected look*

Takes itunes out back, whith shovel in hand.

[cools]

Android 4.2 is a bit sexy all round generally. Not sure I'm too bothered with the lockscreen widgets (although world clocks on there is handy) - looks like a development in progress, would be nice to be able to have multiple on the same screen.

[theevilfunkster]

Google Play Music is rather good isn't it.

Yes it is rather wonderful, It's just a shame I have such a poor mobile internet allowance

[cools]

Google Play Music is rather good isn't it.

Yes it is rather wonderful, It's just a shame I have such a poor mobile internet allowance

Contract?

Mmmh buying downloadable music, something I'll never partake in.

Not quite. Google give you 5TB / 20000 files of space to upload music into and stream anywhere you have a http/Android connection. You can also download it again in exactly the same state as you uploaded it (provided you didn't upload in lossless, as they are transcoded to 320k MP3 during the upload).

[cools]

Seems my "exact" statement may be misguided - I'm just testing what happens if you upload and download a VBR MP3.

Perfect for my use - the web management tool is a bit like what iTunes was like.... 10 years ago.

[theevilfunkster]

Google Play Music is rather good isn't it.

Yes it is rather wonderful, It's just a shame I have such a poor mobile internet allowance

Contract?

Yeah, I only pay £15 a month though so I can't expect a lot. The last three months were unlimited so I tried to see how much I could use. That amount was around 30gb.

[cools]

VBR files stay intact through the upload > download process.

[markedkiller78]

a bit like what iTunes was like.... 10 years ago.

Actually ok?

[emphatic]

I wonder if the upload is locked to just one computer or if you can have mates upload stuff to your account? That would be pretty cool actually.

[markedkiller78]

I wonder if the upload is locked to just one computer or if you can have mates upload stuff to your account? That would be pretty cool actually.

I think they could get into a lot of trouble with that. Even with username & password it could result in a lot of music being "shared"

[cools]

I wonder if the upload is locked to just one computer or if you can have mates upload stuff to your account? That would be pretty cool actually.

Nope, you can upload from anywhere (via the browser) but you can only connect software on ten machines before having to deauthorise them.

You're limited to connecting only two accounts per computer, and playback can only be done on one machine at one time.

http://support.google.com/googleplay/bi ... 30356&rd=1"

[cools]

a bit like what iTunes was like.... 10 years ago.

Actually ok?

Yeah. It's basically a HTML ripoff of it, minus the configurable smart playlists. It appears that it reads tags into a DB rather than touching the files - when you download a file that you've altered the metadata for it's unchanged from the original upload

[wigsplitta]

Corrected...

Takes itunes out back, with a sawn-off shotgun and large sledge-hammer in hand.

The more I hear and read, the more I think my iPhone is gonna get pawned.

[pubjoe]

What's a better Christmas present for a ten year old? New ipod touch or ipad mini?

[geotrig]

What's a better Christmas present for a ten year old? New ipod touch or ipad mini?

a bike

[pubjoe]

Har de har haurghpthh.

He has a bike thank you. I'm worried he's not playing enough angry birds for a lad his age.

[geotrig]

lol dont know tbh i suppose a ipad mini is new and all that

get him a wii u

[pubjoe]

Yeah, or a wii u.

[Pete]

Googlemaps on way for IOS.