Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Google takes up the fight with Spotify - Swedish Dagbladet

According to the website The Verge and several U.S. media is Google going with one major change and expansion of its music service, which came a year and a half ago.

The new service may be presented as early as Wednesday in connection with Google launches its annual conference for software developers. Google should have clear agreements with record companies Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music.

There is a long-line music services where you can buy and download individual songs or entire albums. But with the new service, Google will mainly take up the fight with Swedish based Spotify which streams music via the internet, without downloading it. In this way, the listeners practically free access to millions of songs that they can listen to through your computer, and sometimes more appliances.

Spotify has both an ad-supported version and a model where users pay 49 dollars a month to get rid of advertising when you listen via computer. Anyone who pays 99 dollars a month to listen ad-free even in the mobile and PC plate.

It is not known how much Google will charge for the different versions of its upcoming service for streaming music. One possibility that the speculation is that Google will link the new music service to Youtube, the well-spread video service owned by Google.


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