{"id":19700,"date":"2013-08-05T09:13:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T13:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=19700"},"modified":"2013-08-05T09:13:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T13:13:33","slug":"music-drifting-through-space-and-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/music-drifting-through-space-and-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Music drifting through space and time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2013 is the year that my mom (who still has a flip phone and turns it off when she has completed a call) has purchased an iPod. This has proven to me the the iPod’s time of relevance has come to pass. I have used the “mom” rule successfully many times before when it comes to electronics.<\/p>\n

I have been interested in “cloud” music for a while. I like the idea that if I ever need to hear “Baby Snakes” or “Girls With Guns” that all I have to do is log onto any computer (not even my own) and I can access MY copy of this song and play it instantly.<\/p>\n

I am an iPhone owner, so I only just discovered the Android Market aka Google Play and the Google Play music storage feature.<\/p>\n

You can upload 20,000 songs (not a misprint) for free and access them from the homepage of Google or gmail.<\/p>\n

I narrowed my digital collection to 20,000 (was 4,000 over) and could not use DRM-protected iTunes files (protected .aac). I think that was maybe 30 songs. It would not accept .wav files either, but you can make them into mp3s and they work.<\/p>\n

MOST of the files are not uploaded, they are just “recognized” by Google Play and they match it with their copy. If they can’t match it, THEN they upload it.<\/p>\n

You can stream from ANY Android phone or tablet and from any computer, but not iphone or other devices that do not use flash.<\/p>\n

You can burn my house down. but you can’t take my music collection!<\/p>\n

The Instant Mix feature is pretty decent (unlike iTunes’ Genius which was pretty bad). It makes mixes based on a single song or LP. Kind of like Pandora w\/o commercials and ONLY using your music.<\/p>\n

I am so impressed by this program and it’s potential to use with BluTooth to shove my music down everyone’s throats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2013 is the year that my mom (who still has a flip phone and turns it off when she has completed a call) has purchased an iPod. This has proven to me the the iPod’s time of relevance has come to pass. I have used the “mom” rule successfully many times before when it comes […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[835,164,834,56,804,836],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}