An awesome Google offering that I was missing

The next decade is going to be about cloud computing or so everyone related to Tech Community would like us to believe. Cloud Computing or not, one thing I am sure is that we are surely moving to online data storage from the era of personal computers.

Whether it is pictures (Facebook, Picassa etc), videos (YouTube, MySpace etc) or any other types of files, people are uploading content in hordes on these sites and others are happy to access them online. It makes a lot of sense with increasing broadband speeds. (On how to watch online movies visit this post)

Sometimes it becomes necessity as well. Now people own a number of devices. It starts with home computers, personal laptops, office systems, iPads among other. It becomes really difficult and irritating to maintain a library of your favourite songs on each of these devices. For someone like me, it becomes more difficult as I don’t have any preference and don’t follow a particular genre and the choice of music depends on my mood a lot. Now how to maintain that!

Well Google has an answer for that, like every other query we had in the past.Google music is still in beta phase and is not available for people outside USA. But it is really interesting project as one can make playlist and choose from a number of songs available in its library. But that is for people in USA. What about people in India like us?

Well don’t be disappointed as Google has another offering in its kitty. It is calledGoogle music India that offers Hindi music using partner sites like in.com, saavn and saregama. The advantages of using Google Music India are aplenty.

To start with, the song search feature is offered by the awesome Google, so one is sure to find what he is looking for and not something else. Secondly one does not have to go to individual websites and search on each of the individual sites for their favourite songs. I regularly use the service and I have found most of the Hindi songs I looked for. Also one can access their favourite songs anywhere. (For me it is on office computer…: D)

The obvious disadvantage is that we can’t make playlist of the songs here. Also the songs on offer are only Hindi songs, limiting the choices. But I am pretty sure that Google music beta will be soon offered to us and then these disadvantages will disappear.