I am really enjoying the Google Music service. For me, the strongest feature is the recommendation engine. I've found a lot of new music in a variety of genres

I am really enjoying the Google Music service. For me, the strongest feature is the recommendation engine. I've found a lot of new music in a variety of genres that way. I treat it as a music exposure platform. I pay my 8 bucks a month to have access to millions of songs across thousands of artists. The ones I like I buy some albums so I can rip it and have lossless local copies (the one beef I have with Google music is the files are limited to 320bit mp3. It's perfectly acceptable, but I would even pay more for a lossless .flac option) and add the physical disk to my collection. I would definitely recommend the service if you're interested in finding new music and enjoy listening to tunes on your mobile device (where quality isn't really an issue anyway and space is more precious).