Google launched their “Google Music” cloud service over 5 months ago and although its been been great for consumers —
label executives weren't exactly too fond of the idea. Google Music, in it's current form, is definitely great for your current
music library but if there's one area where it's sorely lacking it's being able to cough up some cash and actually
buy new music.
Well, according to
New York Times,
Google is already making the necessary steps towards opening up their
own
MP3 store, allowing for quick and easy song purchases. Apparently, a
few music execs let the cat out of the bag saying Google intends on
opening their music store in the next few weeks. Not only does this fall
in line with the
Ice Cream Sandwich announcement but this could also be an attempt from Google
to steal away some of the thunder from Apple's upcoming cloud music service (iTunes Match).
More
than likely, this new
MP3 store will be tied into Google Music Beta
where you could make an
MP3 purchase and instantly stream it to various
devices from the cloud. This could completely do away with the painful
process of uploading huge music libraries to Google Music where users
had to spend days, even weeks to access their music from the cloud.
Still, I think it would be pretty neat to browse the
Android Market for books, movies, apps
and music. Every type of media,
all in one place.
Big moves, as always, from Google HQ. The only thing that could mess this deal now are those skittish label execs who have always been more than a little wary of Google's open reputation. Let's hope everything works out.
