For Android users in the United States, Google has updated its music manager, Google Music. Google Music is Google’s cloud-based music service. The search engine giant now allows these users to download the songs they have uploaded. Earlier, one could only use the manager to upload as many as 20,000 songs to Google Music or to download tracks one had purchased from the service.
Basically, this update will allow users to use Google Music to backup their music library, stream it to any computer with a web browser or to their Android phone or tablet, and download the music to a PC.
This will helps users in case their hard drive crashes, the laptop is stolen, or they switch over to a new PC.
The procedure as mentioned on Google’s main link is as follows:
Download from the Music website:
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Hover your mouse over a song or click on an album.
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To select multiple songs*, hold down the ‘Shift’ key and select another song in the list to select a range of songs. To multi-select individual songs throughout the list, hold down the ‘Ctrl’ (Windows) or ‘Command’ (Mac) key while selecting.
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Click the triangle that appears to the right of the song/album title.
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Select ‘Download selected songs’.
Download from the Music Manager:
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Launch the Music Manager.
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Select the ‘Download’ tab*.
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Click ‘Download purchased music’ or ‘Export your library’.
Music Manager allows you to download all of your purchased tracks and place them in the folder you specify. Once you’ve downloaded all of your purchased tracks, you will see a checkbox with an option to download everything since that download or to download all tracks again.
Annoyingly, the search engine giant has not placed an option in the music manager to allow users to download an individual track or album. Here, the process is, when a user clicks on the “Download my library” button, Google asks them what folder they would like to store the music in, and then is starts to download all the songs. If one wants to download individual tracks or albums, they will have to route the download via the Google Music website.
Google pushed in yet another update, which allows users to share YouTube videos. This update, however, is linked to Google+, as one would have expected it. Here, a user has the ability to share YouTube videos, along with the songs they have already uploaded. Next, they can choose to share these videos to their Circles on Google+.
The user has to only click on the dropdown menu, which is next to the song title, and share the video. The blending might just be perfect, but for the convenience, it might not at all be utilized to its fullest potential.
For the count, there is little knowledge, as to how many Google+ users are actually using Google+. Moreover, there is already an option in Google+ to share YouTube videos, which is convenient too. So this would be more or less a waste of time and money for a Google Music user to make use of this feature.