Google Music Finally Lets You Download Your Own Tunes

Google Music, Google’s cloud music service, has finally introduced a feature that lets users download their music to a computer with just a click of a button.

It’s been nearly a year since Google Music made it easy for users to add their music to the cloud services for easy streaming. The service didn’t make it so easy, however, to retrieve music from your online library should you want to re-download it to a desktop.

To fix that, Google added a download feature to the Google Music website and the Google Music Manager app Friday.

The process is even easier. On the web, select your songs and click “Download selected songs.” On the Music Manager app, hover over the download tab and chose either “Download purchased music” or “Export your library.” This applies to any purchased music, or any tunes you’ve uploaded yourself.

There is, however, a small difference between the two interfaces. On the Music Manager app you can download as many tracks as you like, even if you’re over the limit for downloading purchased tracks. Online, you can only download purchased tracks to a computer two times.

Google announced the news in a blog post, saying:

You already know that you can upload up to 20,000 songs to Google Music for free and stream them to your +Android device. Now we’re making sure the process is just as smooth for you to retrieve your music from the cloud … Your music will still be accessible from the cloud, so you will continue to have all the benefits of cloud access. Now if your computer crashes, you’ll have a great backup for your music.

So now that you can download tracks on Google Music, is it the best cloud music service out there? Let us know what you think in the comments below.

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