Thursday, May 16, 2013

Music Streaming: Google invests the market without innovation - Expansion

music streaming service unveiled yesterday by Google at its I / O conference, Google Play Music All Access, comes compete with heavyweights like Spotify or Pandora, but it does not really provide more compared to the existing supply.

Available on Android smartphones and tablets in the United States alone in the first place, it has licensing agreements with three majors (Sony, Universal, Warner), according TheVerge. The service allows you to create playlists, and suggests new from tracks played by users who listen to the same songs as the user. This kind of functionality exists on all radio sites, the best known is Pandora, and streaming sites like Spotify. It also offers search by genre.

Google Music All Access will also merge its own music library with the service, but again, this is something that already offers Spotify.

In fact, the interest of the launch of Google have been faster Apple on this one, since Apple is also preparing an offer streaming, and used the Internet to pay for services .

producers generally welcomed the launch, taking the opportunity to highlight the future model of subscription music on the internet.

Google Play Music All Access will be sold at $ 9.99 per month in the United States, is the current industry standard for an offer streaming including mobile access. A reduction of $ 2 will be given to first subscribers until May 31. The service can also be tested for free for 30 days.

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