Music Beta - Googles's cloud based music service

Google, web giant has unveiled a cloud based music service, Music Beta at Google I/O, a developers’ conference in San Francisco. This will allow users to store their songs on the serve and access them from any compatible device such as iPod, I phone, PC using internet connection at anytime and anywhere. The users can also create playlist and listen to the recently played songs offline. One can even use Instant Mix to automatically build new playlists of songs from the collection. All the playlists created and changes made will automatically be available everywhere the music is.

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Unlike Amazon’s Cloud Player which allows users to store and access up to 1000 songs on its server, the Google’s music beta will be able to upload up to 20,000 songs on a hard disk. Since the service is in the initial stages, the users will not be able to download or buy any songs. It doesn’t permit the user to listen to the music they haven’t uploaded. Another important aspect is de-duplication of songs. Music Beta doesn’t offer any feature whereby the users can skip uploading the same songs they have already uploaded. De-duplication helps in savings time for the users in uploading more number of songs.

To begin with, the service is available at free of charge as it is still in testing stage. As of now Google is still in the process of entering into deals with record labels. Google has also unveiled a movie rental service to US users through Android app available at $US1.99, $US2.99 or $US3.99. The price at which the cloud music service will be available is still not disclosed.

Source: News