[Greg_E]

Since you've started using it, have the ads that google directs at you when you search changed in any way? Just wondering if they are using the information about what you listen to as a way to target the advertising. If not now I bet they will in the near future, their is no free lunch, storage and bandwidth cost money.

I basically solved the issue by using more advanced compression methods, more than 2200 songs in less than 5GB. Copied from the master on my laptop, to my Windows tablet, to a USB drive and onto my a500 tablet and my 43it "tablet". Since I also own all the disks it came from, I can adjust as needs change and if it all gets lost I can bring it back to life (lot of time). Until I can buy wave files, I will still buy disks and have the real media to help when technology changes, mp3 (any rate) and AAC (any rate) are not good as masters. I have about $300 worth of disks that I need to buy right now, some are remastered that are in sets of less than $10 each disk and I doubt I could save money at $.99 per song because I would be buying most songs on each disk, average 10 songs per disk. So the buying music online just doesn't make sense to me for most of the music I listen too. If the style I wanted had only one or two songs per disk, I would certainly be tempted with a per song purchase scheme (would still be better as no DRM wave).

And yes I do have the Google Music service and player on my a500 tablet, I don't like the way it displays by artist, any of the soundtracks disks I have show up on top of the stack which makes it hard to see the disks I play more often. Winamp does the same thing so I am more likely to use the Acer music application or the Archos music app on my two Android tablets.

Not trying to shoot you posts down, it's just that Google Music does not work the way I want things to work. For some people this will be great, for others like me it just doesn't fit.