It is not quite official but there’s little question that Google will launch its Google Music service at its big I/O event later today. While the Wall Street Journal couldn’t get a Google spokesman to confess it, Peter Kafka over in any respect Things D got Jamie Rosenberg, Director of Android Product Management, to spill the important points somewhat early. Google’s service will essentially mimic the functionality of Amazon’s Cloud service , albeit without the facility to sell songs direct to consumers. Ouch. Unfortunately, Google’s plans to launch a more feature-complete service were derailed when discussions with the labels broke down . In accordance with Rosenberg, “a number of the key labels were less desirous about the innovative vision that we recommend, and more fascinated with in an unreasonable and unsustainable set of commercial terms.” So, other than putting the service on hold, Google will launch its music service being able to store as much as 20,000 of your individual songs for gratis you could then stream over the net or on your Android phone or tablet. Amazon’s service, by comparison, offers just 5GB of free storage for approximately 1,200 songs stored at a mediocre bitrate. Google will even best Amazon with a feature that automatically creates playlists. Google expects to rollout the service to its US users within “weeks” while beta invites should exit later today. Keep it here because we’ll be bringing you the announcement live .
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