By STAFF Writer
November 17, 2011
TECHNOLOGY NEWS - After Google Plus against Facebook, now Google steps into music market with Android music store to give a blow of competition to the Apple iTunes.
In the corporate battle between Google and Apple, the music offered by Google Music is priced same as rival iTunes for the US-based Android users.
All Android users in the US now can access the Google Music. However, outside the US the service is not available currently as the negotiations with Warner Music record labels is still on the half way to allow selling songs elsewhere.
The songs on the music store of search engine giant are available in MP3 format encoded at 320Kbps at a price ranging between 69c to 99c and $1.29.
Currently there are about 13 million songs on the platform and about 20,000 songs can be stored on the Google Music accounts.
Google Music is compatible on Android devices 2.2 or above. As an introductory offer, Google said of allowing its consumers downloading of one song every day for free.
The search giant also has plans of boosting its newly launched social networking site, Google+, in the US by offering the ability of sharing songs directly to other people.
More to this, Google is to make the music platform feasible for artists to distribute their work.
T-Mobile users gets additional benefit. They can purchase the songs without credit cards. The price will be added to their monthly phone bill.
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| Google Android Music Store Launch Event |
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