Google Music adds scan and match feature

December 20, 2012

Up to now, Google has been the poor boy of online music, but that's about to change. It rolled out a scan and match feature on Wednesday for Google Music users that gives the search giant a leg up on Amazon’s Cloud Player service and Apple’s iTunes Match. Here are some things you should know about Google’s matching service. What is it? Google’s service scans a user’s computer, giving them online access to the songs it finds, provided Google can match those songs on its servers. If the songs cannot be found, they will be uploaded to a user’s online locker. The service saves you the time of manually uploading your music to Google Music by scanning the files in your library and comparing them to songs in the Google Music library. If your song is in the Google Music library, Google will copy it to your cloud account. If it isn't in Google's library of approximately 13 million songs, Google will upload to your cloud account. (In comparison, Amazon and Apple claim to have about 20 million songs in their respective libraries.) To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2022384/google-music-adds-scan-and-match-feature.html