Google Music was officially launched yesterday to challenge other popular music platforms like iTunes or Netflix. Google music offers people a new way of listening to music—everywhere and in personalized ways.
Photo: Google Music, a snapshot from music.google.com
Google started with Music Beta launched in May. This service allowed users accessing their music collections easily from any device and upload their personal music collection for free to the cloud so they could be streamed anywhere, any time. The function of free uploading of up to 20,000 songs remained but the platform has been significantly extended.
On Google Music people can purchase and share music. The platform automatically syncs user’s entire music library—both purchases and uploads—across all devices without any cables.
“We’ll keep your playlists in tact, too, so your ‘Chill’ playlist is always your ‘Chill’ playlist, whether you’re on your laptop, tablet or phone. You can even select the specific artists, albums and playlists you want to listen to when you’re offline,” wrote Andy Rubin, Senior Vice President, Mobile in a post on Google’s blog.
In addition, Goggle added a new music store in Android Market, fully integrated with Google Music. The store offers more than 13 million tracks from artists on Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, and the global independent rights agency Merlin as well as over 1,000 prominent independent labels.
The purchased albums or tracks will be added instantly to users’ Google Music library, and accessible anywhere. A free full play of a purchased song with your friends on Google+ is available for all Google fans.
Google Music also offers exclusive contents from many musicians. For now, there is a never-before-released live concert album of The Rolling Stones, Brussels Affair (Live, 1973).
There’s also an artist’s hub on the Google Music where any artist who has all the necessary rights can distribute his or her own music on our platform, and use the artist hub interface to build an artist page, upload original tracks, set prices and sell content directly to fans.
Google Music is now open in the U.S. at market.android.com, and over the next few days, we will roll out the music store to Android Market on devices running Android 2.2 and above.
