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hey I'm Sharon Vaknin from cnet.com here to walk you through Google music for Android with Google music you can access all your music across multiple devices and computers without burdening your phone or computer storage basically the music is stored on Google servers and played back over Wi-Fi or your cell network to your phone to get a google music account go to music google.com slash music and request an invite Google is slowly rolling this beta software out so be patient once you've been invited you'll be able to access the Google music web interface in the browser and download the music manager for your desktop music manager will copy all the music on your computer to Google servers and make it all available on your Android phone or tablet when you're not at home but even without an invite you can still download the Android app and get to know the interface go to the Android Market and search for music it's the app with the headphones icon once it's downloaded and installed select which Google Account you want to use with the app it's based on what accounts are already connected to your phone once you're all set up the app will automatically load songs from your online library and your phone's internal storage if you have a huge library because maybe you decided to take advantage of the free storage of 20,000 songs it might take a while but once the list is populated playing music is pretty straightforward just tap a song to begin playing it or hit the arrow to the right of any song and press play here you'll also see other options make an instant mix is Google's answer to Apple's genius feature if you select it Google will create a playlist of songs similar to the one you selected it's nice for when you're on the go want to dig up old music or if you just want to let Google work its magic you can also add a song to a playlist in this menu you can either add the song to an existing playlist or create a new one all your playlists are stored in the tab at the top to create a new one hit the menu button and select new playlist you can rename it and begin adding songs albums or artists through the other tabs each tabs menu selection is different it makes experience a little frustrating but the main thing you should know is that the playlist albums and artists tabs have an option called make available offline so now that all your music is stored on Google servers how do you access it when you're not connected to the Internet this is where make available offline comes in tap that option and you'll see pushpins show up next to the items on the list tap the pushpins next to the items you want available offline and hit done the music is cached onto your phone so the amount of music you can make available offline depends on how much storage you have and you can deselect them later to remove them from your phone and free up space you can check on the download progress by going to menu settings then download cue there are other useful settings here to take a look around and contact me on Facebook if you have any questions and look if you rotate the phone to landscape you get a whole different interface feel free to choose accordingly send your questions comments and how-to ideas to how to @ cnet.com and for more handy how-to videos head on over to see net tv.com for seen it I'm Sharon Vaknin and I'll see you on the interwebs you