“Music Beta is a new service from Google that gives you instant access to your
personal music collection without the hassle of wires or syncing. Add your music
collection and listen on the web or any compatible Android device.” Honestly, its a Mozy backup of your current music library with Google apps for playback on your Goog-devices.

I don’t understand why I want to pump my music collection into the cloud, to then pull it back down everyday.  Storage is cheap, most devices have plenty, but unfortunately bandwidth is getting more expensive.  Even still, why is Joe consumer going to be listening to music on a tablet through 3G/Wi-fi, when they still have an iPod that’s worked for years.

Let’s not gloss over the fact that Google Music has NO WAY to buy/rent/purchase/etc any new music whatsoever.  Want the new Lonely Island album, Google says go back to iTunes and buy it.

Even Zune Pass blurs the lines between having a collection and “owning” (yes, it’s renting) every song ever. Pandora too, type an artist and it’ll play as much music as you can handle, all via the cloud. Five years ago, I loaded some of my music collection on a web server with a simple Flash player; Google Music is nothing new even if Goog-ified.

Next generation entertainment (movies, TV, music) will be less about buying and hoarding huge libraries and more about technology delivering new, top-rated, and interesting content to us automatically, wherever we are, on all mediums.

And guess what, its already happening; I didn’t start watching The Chicago Code because FOX told me to at 9pm on Monday, I did it because Hulu served it up and said “Hey check this out!”.  Granted Hulu doesn’t have the genius AI of Pandora, serving up awesome music based on one artist selection but we are just getting started.

Its new, its Google, but what the hell is the point?  Am I missing something?

Sounds like Engadget isn’t excited either, http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/11/google-music-beta-walkthrough-what-it-is-and-how-it-works-vide/