You’d be right in assuming that downloading all your songs from a cloud locker service is a simple, standard feature. They’re your songs, after all. But with Google Music, you could only use its desktop app to download songs purchased through Google — not, for example, tracks you ripped from your own audio CDs and then uploaded to their servers. That’s finally changed.
From now on, you’ll be given two bulk download options in Google Music Manager. You can download your purchased music only, or download your entire library in one fell swoop. That’s good news for any of you who took advantage of Google’s offer to store up to 20,000 of your favorite tunes in its cloud so that you could stream them to your Android devices. In the event of a catastrophic hard drive failure on your desktop, laptop, or media server, you’ll now be able to painlessly restore your music library with just a couple of clicks via Google Music Manager and your internet connection.
A few other Google Music related tweaks were made yesterday as well. Via the web interface, you can now select individual tracks and have them pushed to a specific Android device. And in a not-too-unexpected move you can now quickly share purchased tracks with folks in your Google+ circles. Well, not the tracks themselves, but rather YouTube videos of those songs — provided Google has them at the ready and your friends aren’t geo-blocked from viewing them.
What’s next for the service? Possibly some sort of system that automatically replaces your low-quality versions with something better…?
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