Google to unveil cloud based music service
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 22:39 IST
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Google to unveil cloud based music service
Bangalore: Google is all set to enter the cloud music and will unveil the product officially at its annual Google I/O developer's conference in San Francisco. A similar service was launched by Amazon recently in March and Apple was also planning to join the bandwagon. However Google announcement came to prior to Apple to provide cloud based music service, and this reassured the colonial competition between the two. Google's cloud music service would enable its users to store and stream their music through the web. They can store songs on its web servers for free instead of their own hard drives and play them over an internet connection directly from web browsers and also on its Android phones and tablet. Users can upload music at this library but will not be able to download any of them. This is an attempt adopted by Google to prevent any kind of piracy. Apparently, this service will be introduced by Google even without the support of the music industry. In spite of months of negotiation, Google has not secured licenses from the four major recorded-music companies unlike Amazon and is likely to include a system that functions much like a remote hard drive. Licenses from music companies could give users instant access to songs stored in central servers, rather than making those users upload every song in their music collections. The service is in its testing process and will be launched in a beta version called 'Music Beta' by Google. Since the service is available in Beta, users can join by invitation only. A request on for the invitation can be made at Music.Google.com. In order to access the service, users will require a browser that supports flash.

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