ExtremeTech: In the wake of the Megaupload takedown, it might seem like a good time to back away from increasingly locked-down cloud storage. After all, you don’t want to lose all your media if the worst happens. At least one digital locker is bucking the trend: Google Music. The search giant’s cloud music service added a new feature this week; US users can now download their entire MP3 library, both purchased and uploaded tunes. The result might be the ultimate free music locker.
Some good things happen too in 2020, for example you can get a free Nest Mini smart speaker for your YouTube Premium or Google Play Music subscriptions.
Droid-Life :Depending on your fondness of certain words in music, the Scan and Match feature that Google implemented to Google Music may leave you quite upset. Scan and Match quickly tags music you are uploading and instead of uploading the entire file, it makes the tracks available from their catalog, saving people lots of upload time. That is great, but what happens when you are not getting exactly what you are trying to upload.
Smashiphone: Google recently “enabled” the scan and match feature now found in Google Music, a feature that was once only available and featured in Europe.
Seems like a good choice for those who want something free to back up their music. However I never trust keeping data on the cloud since once it is there it isn't always free/easy to get back if terms/conditions change.
I just use my 500gb external HDD to hold all of my music/pictures/files and I find it much easier than these options. No clue why anyone would want to trust another company to hold their files/info when they can easily do it on their own.