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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Teh Internets Google Launches Music Beta

Posted by on Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:15 AM

Google will launch its Music Beta service today, which lets users upload their personal music libraries to their own account on Google's servers. The company has yet to secure formal licensing, but according to NME "Google is in negotiations with at least four major records labels for use with the service. No deals have been announced so far." According to the same article, Google plans to eventually charge $25 a year for the service. The launch comes right on the heels of Amazon's Cloud Drive.

Via NME

 

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Yet to secure formal licensing? Amazon didn't beg labels to let people store their own music (or what they claim is theirs) in the cloud.
Posted by madcap on May 10, 2011 at 8:40 AM
Grant Brissey 2
@1: From the source article:

While Google and Levine have been negotiating to obtain licences from the four largest record companies for more than a year, the test version of the service will launch without licensing. This is the same strategy that Amazon employed when it launched its cloud-based music service in March. "We're launching a beta service called Music Beta by Google that lets' users upload their personal music libraries to their own account on Google's servers," Levine told CNET News. Users can "access those libraries anytime or anywhere from web-connected devices," Levine said.
Posted by Grant Brissey http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Author.html?oid=23414 on May 10, 2011 at 8:46 AM
cosby 3
I'm just guessing, but I think with licenses, Google Beta will expand into playing songs that users don't own, like Spotify. It seems like Google is months late to the gunfight, but whoever is first to crack the licensing that allows users to play any song at any time from a cloud in the United States is going to be king of the hill.
Posted by cosby http://www.myspace.com/cosbyshownights on May 10, 2011 at 9:01 AM
Brian Geoghagan 4
No iOS devices allowed. Requires flash. This will fail.
Posted by Brian Geoghagan on May 10, 2011 at 10:17 AM

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