Those who are familiar with Android Honeycomb might have already come across its music player's cloud syncing feature, though previous attempts to port said app to phones hadn't been successful. Whatever it was that kept crashing the app back then, it seems to have fixed itself -- after xda-developers member WhiteWidows slapped the leaked app onto his rooted EVO 4G, the phone started to automagically sync his tunes to his Google account. The modder then swapped in an empty SD card, but he was still able to stream music straight from the cloud after checking the "Stream music" option in the app. Pretty neat, eh? That said, we do wonder if Google will be able to handle the exabytes worth of high-quality Justin Bieber and Spice Girl tracks.
I think the editor meant Justin Booby and Spice Hoes....
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And the Engadget effect has taken place. If you had not synced your files yet, they will no more.
ReplyDelete"Looks to me like google may have taken down the syncing service.
I tested this by placing 4 mp3 files on my SD card, and importing them into the local library.
Suddenly when I click test under logs:
I see 4x mp3s with a peerId of 1 (.local00)
None Show a peerId of 2 (.cloud00)
Half an hour later, after stopping and starting sync to make sure it was doing something...
I see a logcat of a bunch of login attempts for: "http://clients4.google.com/chr..."
But still no files with a peerId of 2 (.cloud00)
Mind you that the files in .local00 stream fine, so long as they are there, but if you clear the storage for the music player (resetting the music library) you will find that those files are now gone and not on the cloud, at least that is the way it seems to me.