Google Play Music (RIP)

[Sushubh]

Google Music now has a native music manager for Linux systems!

 

[Sushubh]

Google Music Beta comes to Apple iOS through a mobile web app

 

[Sushubh]

Google Music launches in United States

----------

T-Mobile to offer direct billing for Google Music purchases on their network!

 

[aviral sangal]

err some error?? Title says Google music india launched and article on US

----------

Or maybe you wanted to mention google music india is out of beta now

 

[Sushubh]

i merged the threads. google music india already exists and is not a beta service. it just catalog songs hosted by third party services. google music was launched in USA today. it is a music store similar to Apple itunes. i merged all the threads related to google music on the forum so that caused the confusion.

 

[aviral sangal]

Ohh..alright..yea i read about google music yesterday on TOI

 

[Sushubh]

google had announced the event a couple of days ago. though it was pretty clear that google music launch was scheduled for today. they are doing a couple of interesting things. it is pretty much a hybrid edition that offers features from itunes and Spotify.you can upload your own music to the cloud for free. stream it for free. and you can purchase songs and those are added to your account for streaming as well.

 

[Bobbyguitarist]

But streaming data costs money and may hurt those with limited data plans :/ i mean buy a microSD card and load up the songs.whats there in that! (ofcourse that doesn't apply to iPhone users but all the other smartphones)

 

[Sushubh]

well. streaming might not work out well here in india but it seems to be doing well in usa and europe. services like Spotify and pandora are largely stream only. most of these services offer offline caching of limited songs.

 

[IndianMascot]

But will it be different than saavn ?? Saavn is already providing this streaming kind of app for i-phone and android phones.