The biggest jukebox in the cloud just got bigger

Are you a music buff? Google's recent announcement should sound music to your ears. The search giant has bumped up its music storage limit for Google Play Music users by 30,000, effective immediately. The users will now be able to store up to 50,000 of their personal favorite songs on Google's cloud music storage for free, sharply up from the previous limit of 20,000 songs. Google Play is entirely cloud-based so all your music, movies, books, and apps are stored online, always available to you, and you never have to worry about losing them or moving them again (unless, of course, you do have 20,000 50,000 songs already). In a post on its official blog, the company wrote that the songs can be uploaded directly from the user's iTunes collection or from other local music folders. It can then be streamed or downloaded and played on the web itself, desktop computers, or Chromecast as well as smartphones or tablets running Android or iOS. This is a big boost for music lovers but spells out a threat to its music streaming competitors. For instance, Apple allows its users to upload only half the number of songs on the cloud with iTunes Match, but at an annual fee of US$24.99. So who has more value for money on this one? Google. But when it comes to your next computer or smartphone, just remember if it's not an Apple, it's crapple.