Watch Out, Spotify: Google Might Want In on Streaming Music
Google, possibly eying subscription music streamer Spotify's 6 million paying users, may be introducing a music streaming service of its own.
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Google unveiled its new streaming music service at their annual I/O developers conference on Wednesday. It has a very long name and some pretty cool new features. Whether it will actually do anything to upend your listening habits and the market for streaming music services, well, that's up for some immediate debate.
Google, possibly eying subscription music streamer Spotify's 6 million paying users, may be introducing a music streaming service of its own.
With Twitter's new music service reportedly coming out sometime this weekend, it's time to consider if we really want to go to our Twitter friends to find new tunes.
Billboard is folding YouTube into their algorithms, making the Hot 100 a better reflection of popular songs as pop music — and making "Harlem Shake" the new No. 1 single. But many musicians are worried that this shift toward streaming will slash their paychecks even more.
The sleek new revamped Myspace has no problem paying major labels for the right to stream their music. But indie labels aren't seeing any of that kickback, and they're furious about it.
Digital music streams could harm the environment even more than compact discs – so green-minded operators should introduce caching, or even ship their entire catalogues on a single chip.
Spotify, the popular music streaming app, is getting ready to launch a browser-based version of their service, but rumors of a potential drop in the price for their premium service don't add up.
It's not out of the kindness of its own heart that music streaming service Spotify has opted not to follow through on its threat to kick off all its freeloaders.
Contrary to expectations, Google's entertainment system project will have nothing to do with streaming TV shows, and instead will focus on music.
Just in time for those six months of free unlimited streaming subscriptions to expire, Spotify has a big announcement this afternoon.
Spotify just lost about 200 record labels, which is bad for a service that's only as valuable as the music it provides.
Years late to the music party, Google makes up for it by offering its Music Service for free -- mostly.
Cutting it close, Google signed a deal with major music labels just one day before the official Google Music launch event this afternoon.
Today BlackBerry is releasing its very sad excuse for a music service to the public and in the ever concentrated streaming-music world, BlackBerry's offering is the least enticing.
Today the music streaming service started a no-ads option
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