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Google Starts Testing Google Music Internally

Posted by Soulskill on from the then-a-five-year-beta-period dept.

Krystalo writes "Google employees have begun testing Google Music internally. Talks with at least some of the top publishers and the four largest record labels are still ongoing. The delays are largely due to the fact that Google is negotiating for cloud music rights and not just the authorization to distribute the songs themselves. The search giant wants to be able to store users' existing music libraries on the company's servers. Labels are in similar discussions with Apple."

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  1. Seriously, why? by deviok · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, yeah, you can buy songs like usual and then store them "in the cloud". Sorry, but I expect the store to let me download the songs I've paid for anyway, just like Good Old Games or Steam or many other online stores.

    And what comes to streaming the songs you've bought, why bother paying $25 a year for that? Just get Spotify or rdio and you can stream any song you like. No need to pay for the songs you want to stream.

    Sorry, but this is useless service. The competitors have done it better and cheaper and there is no use for this when you can just get a real streaming service and get access to millions of songs right away. Hell, even Zune for Windows Phone 7 has such a streaming service and it's far better than what Google is trying to offer here.