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Google had long hesitated to be tormented by tough negotiations with music labels and rights holders, but now it's done: The Internet company started as the third IT giant Apple and Amazon to an online music store.
Google Music - Google opens online music store in the U.S.
At Google Music customers can now download MP3 songs and albums - if they have an Android phone and live in the U.S.. The price is 0.99 to 1.29 U.S. dollars and ten dollars per song per album and the MP3 files have a bitrate of 320 kbps.
The digital music files are offered as apps in the Android Market, more than 13 million songs will be available according to the group. Google agreed not only with the major labels EMI, Sony and Universal, but also with numerous indie distributors.
Negotiations with Warner Music failed, however, why songs by artists like Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Natalie Imbruglia and Prince will not be available.
Friends can listen to songs with Google Plus
About Google Music users can upload for several months up to 20,000 songs on Google servers and play them from various terminals. It had long been expected that Google would offer besides an upload function for their own songs and a buying opportunity.
With the now introduced Google offering is about in the context within which they will also Amazon and Apple. Amazon Cloud Player also offers the functions of uploading, purchasing and online storage of MP3s, including Germany. Apple provides about the system icloud retrieval of his music files on different devices with iTunes match started on Monday an Apple service that allows you to upload your own songs into the iTunes collection, including automatic discovery and mapping of unknown songs.
In order to differentiate themselves from competitors, Google announced at the presentation in Los Angeles, so some additional functions:
[] Users can share their purchased songs on their contacts with Google Plus. This can play the music for free in the social network. So Google is Facebook's cooperation with the music streaming service Spotify against something.
Could [] Google Music suggests users before the music they like. Even friends can their contacts in the Android Market recommend songs and albums.
[] In the "Artist Hub Store" Musicians can sell their songs without the label itself. For this they must pay a one-time fee of $ 25 and give 30 percent of the sales price to Google.
[] To ensure exclusivity, has Google with artists such as Pearl Jam, agreed Shakira, Coldplay and the Rolling Stones that they provide only certain publications on Google Music.
For now, the service will start only in the U.S. - if and when Google Music comes completely to Germany is not yet known. Google must be in Germany next to the music labels and the exploitation rights organization GEMA get on board.
The U.S. group and the Gema, however, have not the best ratio: For years, they argue about whether and how much money the right brokers for any music played video on the Google platform receives YouTube.
About Google Music users can upload for several months up to 20,000 songs on Google servers and play them from various terminals. It had long been expected that Google would offer besides an upload function for their own songs and a buying opportunity.
With the now introduced Google offering is about in the context within which they will also Amazon and Apple. Amazon Cloud Player also offers the functions of uploading, purchasing and online storage of MP3s, including Germany. Apple provides about the system icloud retrieval of his music files on different devices with iTunes match started on Monday an Apple service that allows you to upload your own songs into the iTunes collection, including automatic discovery and mapping of unknown songs.
In order to differentiate themselves from competitors, Google announced at the presentation in Los Angeles, so some additional functions:
[] Users can share their purchased songs on their contacts with Google Plus. This can play the music for free in the social network. So Google is Facebook's cooperation with the music streaming service Spotify against something.
Could [] Google Music suggests users before the music they like. Even friends can their contacts in the Android Market recommend songs and albums.
[] In the "Artist Hub Store" Musicians can sell their songs without the label itself. For this they must pay a one-time fee of $ 25 and give 30 percent of the sales price to Google.
[] To ensure exclusivity, has Google with artists such as Pearl Jam, agreed Shakira, Coldplay and the Rolling Stones that they provide only certain publications on Google Music.
For now, the service will start only in the U.S. - if and when Google Music comes completely to Germany is not yet known. Google must be in Germany next to the music labels and the exploitation rights organization GEMA get on board.
The U.S. group and the Gema, however, have not the best ratio: For years, they argue about whether and how much money the right brokers for any music played video on the Google platform receives YouTube.
