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Google to Include iTunes?
Baher Al Hakim writes "The Street suggests in a recent article that Apple is about to announce a deal with Google to offer Apple's iTunes Music service through Google's site.
The rumored deal would pair the nation's leading online music store with its leading search engine." Update: 08/13 22:00 GMT by T : Truncation untruncated.
One of the things I could see google offer is the ability to search for songs by lyrics and additional meta data. I know a lot of times when I purchase music via itunes and I don't know the actual name of the song the first thing I do is search for "lyrics" followed by the phrase from the song.
The nice thing will be that you'll be able to search iTunes directly from Google. For example, if I'm looking for Bob Dylan stuff, and I do a Google search, I could get links to Bob Dylan songs on iTunes. Its reasonable for Google search to diversify into multimedia.
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When added to the video iPod rumours, it seems to make more sense for Google to tie in with Google Video.
As part of the spin that Apple might do when explaining the reversal on Steve Jobs' "no video" decree. Google Video is a distribution mechanism well suited to short video snippets, just the thing if you were watching it on a small screen, or carrying someplace to watch on a connected monitor. The iPod also has a DRM mechanism built in. Since the DRM scheme is one linked to a portable device, it might be less annoying than one linked to your desktop PC.
I can't picture the benefit for Apple or Google when only audio is involved. But video seems to make more sense.
You are on crack only to the degree that any compressed music will not sound as good as the source. If your source happens to be torrent or usenet for music, than I have noticed that sometimes songs are encoded with preset eq's and/or normalization where the bass is too high, which might explain your tinny argument.
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