Google Music Rumors Emerge: $25 Yearly To Stream Your Music From the Cloud
9/17/2010 02:07:00 AM
kenmouse
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If all goes according to this rumored plan, Google Music will be out along with Android 3.0 this fall/winter, and it'll charge you just $25 per year to store songs in the cloud. At least, if the labels let it.The $25 per year plan is Google's opening offer to the music industry, reports Billboard. It's not clear how much storage that would give you, or how long you could store a given track there. But the details are available sound pretty enticing: purchases—at prevailing industry rates—could be transferred directly to your cloud-based account, in addition to Google scanning your hard drive for tracks you already own and storing them online.Google also wants to go the Lala route of letting you listen to a song all the way through once, with 30-second samples available after. There would also be Ping-like social elements, and you'd presumably be able to listen to your music from any internet-connected device.
Of course, one of the reasons this all sounds so great is that it's Google's dream plan. By the time it goes through the record label ringer—the same one with which Apple's been contending since it snapped up Lala—we could be looking at something more expensive, more limited, and entirely less appealing.
Still, good to see Google's heart's in the right place. And if they can manage to take music into the cloud before iTunes can, Apple will have quite the battle on its hands.
[Billboard via SAI]
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