Google opened a music store online and free web space storage on Wednesday to listen to songs from computers, tablets and mobile phones, the company announced at a press conference in Los Angeles.
The Music Store sells songs and albums for prices comparable to iTunes and Amazon MP3, but Google’s catalog is less. The showcase is in the Android Market, an application and website, where users can download Google smart phone applications.
Songs purchased from the store are automatically on Google Music, a record that comes from a recent application Android tablet in the coming days, or can be accessed from a website download. They allow users to stream songs from their various devices.
The service record Google has launched a small group in May, and opened to everyone in the United States on Wednesday. Google Music is free for storage of up to 20,000 songs.
More than half of all smartphones sold worldwide lead in the last quarter of Google’s Android software, according to Gartner market research. Google has announced more than 200 million devices have been activated.
But in the music download market, Apple is king, selling more than half of all U.S. downloads via its iTunes Store, analysts say.
Apple plans to extend the offer with the launch of iTunes late game Monday. Play iTunes Music Store is similar to Google in that it customers to store their music catalogs, offering up to 25,000 songs on Apple’s servers and access them from your computer, iPhone and iPad.
“When Google, digital music is fundamentally different, many things we care about a lot of” Jamie Rosenberg, director of content for Google Android, said at the stage of the press conference. “Other cloud services computing of music do you have to pay for the music you listen to yourself. We do not know. ”
ITunes has a set of legs up on Google technology, as subscribers can download to their libraries much faster. Thanks to the trafficking of Apple with music labels, which allows customers to access our high-quality songs that iTunes can provide sold. Google Music or Amazon.com ‘s Cloud Drive allows users to have to wait with lots of music to load several days for their entire catalogs.
The iTunes Store has more than 20 million songs, while Google has about 8 million. Google has signed with three of the four major record companies. Warner Music Group, the third, whose musicians include Death Cab for Cutie, which is the Grateful Dead, Muse and T-Pain a refusenik. Even without Warner, Google said it is 5 million songs over the coming months.
Customers of the mobile network T-Mobile USA is able to songs on the phone bills of their fees rather than setting up a Google account with a credit card.
After buying a song about Google Music, customers can share the title on the Google Network + social. Not surprisingly, Google is not with Facebook Music aggregation service, which recently made to integrate Google launched social network rivals.
Google boasted that, unlike other music stores, people find the songs on Google + can listen whenever in its entirety for free before you buy. ITunes offers only 90 seconds clips. Google has also obtained exclusive access to recordings of popular bands like Coldplay and the Rolling Stones live. Apple is still the music store download only that the Beatles.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/16/tech/web/google-music/index.html?hpt=ibu_c2
