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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action Google just unveiled its new cloud music service to the world, and we’ve checked out the beta to see how it works. Here’s a tour of some of our favourite features.
Word from Google IO is that Google Music will delete user MP3s, if the copyright holder has a legitimate claim against their music being on the server. And it will use the same backend tech to do so as YouTube.
AllThingsD is reporting that Google’s long awaited Cloud Music Service will be unveiled tomorrow at Google I/O. Reports had previously said Google had loftier intentions with their service (think streaming music) but it looks like the service will be strikingly similar to Amazon’s Cloud Drive. Which is a music ‘locker’ where users can upload songs to the cloud and stream them down to their devices.
Google’s rumoured music service is allegedly going nowhere because Google’s hit a wall while negotiating with record labels. AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka has sources telling them that talks are “broken” (possibly because Google changed their terms last minute) and that Google is reconsidering plans altogther.
Of course, we’ve heard that one before. But according to CNET’s sources, the cloud-based streaming service is being tested now, and has been held up this long because of a little thing called… permission. Yes, they’re still sorting out rights with the labels.
Google is showing off Android 3.0 Honeycomb tomorrow. Which means there’ll be a lot of love shown toward Android tablets. But what else will Google show off? Androidandme is reporting that we might see two things Android users have long been waiting for: a web-based Android Market and Google Music. Hopefully it happens (god knows we’ve heard about them for so long already). We’ll find out tomorrow for sure.
If all goes according to this rumoured plan, Google Music will be out along with Android 3.0 this spring/summer, and it’ll charge you just $US25 per year to store songs in the cloud. At least, if the labels let it.
There’s a very attractive job going at Google, with the company looking for someone to head up its Music launch later this year. Meanwhile, Android dude Andy Rubin is working with the team closely, and even meeting with record labels.
