If you have a huge library, it will take quite a while to add all of your music. The nice thing is that you can listen to your music as it adds to the player.

One important thing to note that if you're adding from a folder, it is all or nothing. You can't pick and choose which songs or albums from iTunes or wherever you want added to the cloud. If you have duplicates of albums or something you never listen to and don't want it taking up space, remove them from your library before you upload.

Google also throws in a nice surprise by allowing you to download a couple of free songs as you set up your Music Beta account. You don't really have a choice over what songs you get, but you can choose from a couple of genres. I went with Metal. I found out later that "Metal," by Google's definition, is fairly broad so I ended up with a random mix of 80s hairband Warrant and doom metal band High On Fire. Okay, on second thought, you might want to pass on this.

Streaming Your Music On the PC

The Music Beta player will then launch in your browser. For whatever reason, after I was done setting up my account, the player opened in three different windows in Firefox. Annoying.