Google Music Details Emerge: $25 Yearly To Stash Your Music Inside the Cloud [Unconfirmed]

If all goes in step with this rumored plan, Google Music might be out together with Android 3.0 q4/winter , and it’ll charge you only $25 per year to store songs inside the cloud. No less than, if the labels let it.

The $25 per year plan is Google’s opening offer to the music industry, reports Billboard . It’s not clear how much storage that could provide you with, or how long that you can store a given track there. But the main points come in sound pretty enticing: purchases-at prevailing industry rates-may be transferred directly in your cloud-based account, apart from Google scanning your harddrive for tracks you already own and storing them online.Google also wants to head the Lala route of letting you hearken to a song all through once, with 30-second samples available after. There would also be Ping-like social elements, and you’d presumably be ready to hearken to your music from any internet-connected device.

Of course, probably the most reasons this all sounds so great is that it’s Google’s dream plan. By the time it goes throughout the record label ringer-a similar one with which Apple’s been contending since it snapped up Lala-we may well be staring at something costlier, more limited, and fully less appealing.

Still, good to look Google’s heart’s within the right place. And if they’re able to be capable to take music into the cloud before iTunes can, Apple could have quite the battle on its hands. [ Billboard via SAI ]

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