In a test with a playlist of 466 songs that we imported from Spotify, there were 40 songs unavailable on Play Music. Spotify does have a better streaming collection but Play Music’s is extremely close in our tests. There is a limit of 20,000 uploaded songs right now which is a little disappointing for those with large libraries but we’d hope Google will eventually allow users to purchase additional storage. You just download the music manager app and tell it what music you want to upload (a folder or your entire iTunes library) and it’ll upload everything pretty quickly. The ability to upload music is extremely useful considering that no subscription service has the perfect catalog, so when there’s something missing you’re able to just purchase it yourself and then upload it into Google’s cloud. Google Play Music All Access is much more powerful (despite being a mouthful to say) as it allows you to upload all of the non-DRM music you already own, making it accessible from not only any computer but mobile devices too. Spotify never included a way to upload (or even match up) the music that people had accumulated over the years other than offering to play your local iTunes library from inside the app itself. One of the hardest parts of switching to Spotify was losing my years of meticulously curated music. Both Spotify and Google offer a subscription service that allow access to the entire music catalog and both sell for just $9.99 US / month. The results have been extremely freeing and Play Music exposes just how far behind Spotify is falling. With the announcement of Google Play Music All Access for iOS, it was finally time to make the jump from Spotify to Google’s offering.
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