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Google Cloud Services (Google Music Beta invites too)
Anybody using Goolge's Cloud Services?
This week I decided to give some of my media a better back-up. I have a NAS with RAID 5, and several USB drives so the NAS is also backed up. But I wanted more. So I thought I'd check out some of the cloud services. As I already use google quite a bit, what with having an android phone. I decided to upload my photos, as that's my most important data, first. So I paid £3 for 20GB of extra space (if you upload in <2400 resolution it's free) so that I could upload my photos without compression. 20GB was enough for all my photos. I used Picassa to organise and changed a few settings and all was done. Now just the arduous task of waiting for my 250k upload to sort it out.
Now I was hooked. I wanted more.
So I managed to wangle an invite to google music beta. Only open to Yanks apparently. But a VPN later I was in.
Now I am backing up my whole music collection - 19,800 songs - to the cloud.
I have 3 invites left, if anyone is interested. Those people will then get 8 invites, so theoretically we could get everyone here that wants to, onboard.
2012 is the year of the cloud. I hope that apple and google undercut each other to the extent where I can upload my entire NAS contents to a cloud of some description.
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I'd be interested in an invite please if you have any spare..
do I have to use VPN to get in too tho?
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I'll take an invite mate, I'll give back the rest here.
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I'll have an invite if possible mate. As above i'll sort out others on here.
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I'll have an invite please. Will they take my whole music collection (~450gb) for free and not hand over data to music companies?
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If anybody is successful i'd like to give it a try thanks.
mml
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The first 3 who posted send me your email addys.
You only need VPN to get the software as far as I can tell. I have only used it once thus far, to download the music manager. No problems since.
I will post the app for the android phones too.
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I've got 6 invites left as well if anyone wants one. Just send me your email address :) It works really well, my premium Spotify is due to expire in a few months so i'm slowly downloading all my music again and using Google Music instead. Love the look of the app on my Transformer.
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liveseytowers
I've got 6 invites left as well if anyone wants one. Just send me your email address
PM sent, cheers mate ;)
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I've sent one to ilscuro and GTI as well so 4 left now.
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Blody hell that was quick!!
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lol i'm not sat here refreshing the thread I promise
2 more left, funkyg got one as well as Goldberg
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any chance of an invite
phil
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just waiting for my invite to come thru and I'll have some to offer.. :)
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Can I grab an invite if poss :)
Sent from my a Samsung Galaxy S2 using Tapatalk
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You need to PM your email addresses for an invite peeps.
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Thanks livesytowers. Will have a play later.
Does this give me invites as well? Will share the wealth if needed.
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It'll give you 8 invites to share.
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go on then i will have a dabble at this, could somebody send me an invite
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Can anyone recommend a safe VPN/proxy service to use for this?
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My invites have been sent.
Here's the guide I followed to get it up and running -
Part 1 -Now once you have received your invitation you will need to connect via Hotspot Shield or your alternative VPN again as you need to be seen as from the US again to accept the invite. Once you have done this go through the step by step guide it presents you with and download the Music Manager while still connected to your VPN. After you have done this then you will no longer need to use Hotspot Shield or a VPN again, turning off is essential to be able to upload songs as it seems to stall otherwise anyway.Part 2 – Now on your Android Google Music Beta Application I found that i had to have my locale changed to US setting on the first launch after setting up Google Music online. You might not have this problem but if you do then here is how to get around it.To do this go into your settings >Language and Keyboard > Change Langauge and change to United States. If you cannot access that particular option then use MoreLocale2 and Create a custom locale and set the ISO country to US.So there you have the free reign of Google Music Beta and a possible 20,000 songs at your disposal here in the UK, who said it was a US only service.For a full recap of my experience with Google Music Beta and thoughts of the service then head over to this link here: Google Music Beta: Hands on
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funkyg
Can anyone recommend a safe VPN/proxy service to use for this?
I used hotspot shield.
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I'll take one please, who do I need to PM
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I would like ago please.
Many thanks
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If anyone has any invites left, I would love one, email in my profile.
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I'd also like a crack at this if anyone would be so kind, Thanks.
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Done one for Beerman, 7 left.
PM me for an invite.
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funkyg
PM me for an invite.
PM sent. Thanks.
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funkyg
Done one for Beerman, 7 left.
PM me for an invite.
PM sent thanks m8.
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Sent invites to Gunner, ptm, Armoured Hawk.
Jack-Daniels - I need your email address.
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funkyg
Jack-Daniels - I need your email address.
Sent. Sorry. :redface:
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Sent to Jack-Daniels and MuttleyMaccLad.
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I've got 8 invites now if anyone wants one. pm me with email address.
I like this a lot.
MML
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I would love one if possible MML :)
Thanks
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funkyg
Sent invites to Gunner, ptm, Armoured Hawk.
Jack-Daniels - I need your email address.
Excellent. That's me in cheers dude!
PM me your email if you want an invite