Google seems to be interested in joining the music business with its reported plan of launching an MP3 store in the coming weeks or before Apple’s iTunes Match hits the online music business.
The information has been relayed by New York Times which added that the platform will possibly use Google Music Beta in the process. Although Google has experienced negative feedbacks in terms of licensing issues including illegal-file sharing, there is no indication of collaboration with record labels and publishers for now. The industry wants assurance that Google’s music locker-type storage service is fully secure and immune from piracy.
Google’s cloud music service is still in its infancy but the company is adamant in competing with Apple and Amazon when it plans to create its own music store. Google’s existing music service is cloud-based through Music Beta which allows users to back up songs and stream them in real-time to their mobile devices. As Apple is preparing to launch its own cloud music program, Google is expected to tie-up its Music Beta with the planned online music store. The outcome of the current negotiations with music industry leaders remains to be seen for now.
Amazon already has its Cloud Drive musical store while the Google Music Beta was announced five weeks later.
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