Android phones, apps and tablets

I must say having used a 7" tablet for a while, my Arc S seems comically tiny, a bit like a toy phone

the only downer to Google Music is I've got duplicate, sometime triplicate entries of a lot of albums/tracks

@caughtwalkingbike Cheers:-) glad to know! Now how do we find out if there are any possible watermarks...

I don't think they can realistically look for watermarks in the files, simply too hard to do at the scale they are at. The matching prior to uploading probably just uses the in file metadata info, Artist, Album, Track and perhaps a few other fields. One step you could take to reducing the risk is using some library tool to alter any 'Comment' fields that your downloaded tracks might have. Release groups often put some crap in that field (or any other place) to indicate it is their release. They may also alter the filenames or folders in some way. Whilst you are at it you could MusicBrainz or label from gracenote your whole collection to make it clean.

I just installed Chameleon Launcher on my Nexus 7. Veeery nice.

http://www.chameleonlauncher.com/

^ stop talking abt nexus 7

I remember seeing that around a year ago as a kickstarter project

Before it was cool?

^^ Yes, me too, but it's now a third of the price (£2.50)

Think someone posted that hear yonks ago didn't they? Looks great though I must say!

What by back checking to see if you ever bought the cd, in hmv, with cash?

Only possible issue wod be digital watermarking, that AFAIK, no record companies were ever crazy enough to use.

Oops, missed a Page.

lol

cheers though :-)

^^ Yes, me too, but it's now a third of the price (£2.50)

You are a liar. It's £2.51!!!

What's the better choice, nexus 7 or the 7in Samsung? Thanks

Nexus on price and software. Galaxy Pad 7.7 is an older design too isn't it?

Edit: nexus has 4 Cortex-A9 cores at 1.3GHz, the Samsung is only a dual-core, albeit at 1.4GHz.

Google has developed an augmented reality game played via an Android app, invite only beta but you can request invite at the site http://www.ingress.com/

I requested my invite last night, not heard anything yet...

@Emyr - All this 2-core vs 4-core business can be a bit misleading since most of the software on Android is not optimised in any clever way to utilise 2 cores or more.

Finally updating to 4.2 on the Nexus 7. Google Music is now uploading my tracks. Yeha!

I'm on 4.03 and suspect I'm going to stay there. Boo.

On which device? Note?

ROM....

A bit cautious of flashing it as it has a stylus, and (I assume) quite a bit of development thrown in for use of said dibber.

4.0.4 O2 on mine dammit

@Emyr - All this 2-core vs 4-core business can be a bit misleading since most of the software on Android is not optimised in any clever way to utilise 2 cores or more.

Finally updating to 4.2 on the Nexus 7. Google Music is now uploading my tracks. Yeha!

The cores are pretty much the same speed, and it doesn't really matter if an individual app is multithreaded properly, being able to run the background service processes without causing foreground lag is worth it.

4.0.4 O2 on mine dammit

Sorry, my mistake, 4.0.4 on mine also, not .3

I've been using the Amazon music for a while. Seems pretty similar to the Google but £20 a year for 250,000 tracks.

Will have to see how google compares now it's out over here.

^ killing music

Yeah, right.

Probably my fault when I used to tape the Top 10 from Radio 1 on a C90 TDK electro-magnetic 4 track plastic reel to reel that needed a pencil to cue it past the leader point.

It killed the whole music scene in the 70's and 80's.

Thank fuck the 90's arrived and made it all better for the music companies.

Oh, wait... That's when I could 'buy' a DRM song that I didn't actually own or make back ups from.