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Anybody tried it yet? It promised automagic playlist generation....hmmmm.....I can finally stop blogging. (It better be not sucking Google. I am creating clean new Google account.)

Google also detailed its new product, http://music.google.com/music/listen Music Beta .

There’s no release date for Ice Cream Sandwich, which promises to work on all Android devices,
ending the OS split between tablets and smartphones. The update will
bring some features of Android 3.0 aka Honeycomb, such as the user
interface and multitasking features, to smartphones.

According to the Android Developers Blog,
a tweak to Honeycomb adds several user and developer features. The next
tweak adds features such as: support for USB devices, support for mice
and joysticks, integration with some musical and exercise equipment,
increased file management on external cameras and more development
options for VoIP and audio streaming.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/faster-forward/post/google-io-android-31-ice-cream-sandwich-music-beta/2011/05/10/AFXJ2FjG_blog.html

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It now asks for my phone number on my gmail account and ask me for an invitation.

well fuckit. my paranoia O meter just hit max. no thanks.

you want to match my music pattern, my email, IP and phone? lol.

I listen to Kenny G, Lil Wayne and mariah Carrey.

gtimusic

Haha. I impulsively clicked on the invitation button, although I don't have an Android phone and it seems pointless without one.

I am generally not a paranoid person, but Google is beginning to raise some red flags on my "paranoia O meter," too.

Tim

You knew you'd be selling your soul (all privacy) for all that free storage didn't you?

Still looks cool though - wish they'd launch it over this side of the pond.

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Well. I wasn't going to 'use' it. I just want to see how good their recommendation system is. I was going to feed it with my altered ego music pref. I might learn something.

I don't really need cloud storage/music service. I have the entire interweb to play with.

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if somebody feels like creating one disposable public account... that would be nice. I'll upload my rare CDs. heh..

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With Amazon and now Google having rolled out cloud-based music hosting services without the consent of music labels, CNET reports
that the labels are reportedly now looking for Apple to become the
driving force to bring those companies back to the negotiating table for
broader licensing deals.

Since neither company was
either able or willing to obtain licenses from the four major labels,
neither of them could deliver the same range of options that Apple will
be able to offer with its upcoming cloud service, according to multiple
music industry sources.

Exactly what those options are, the sources wouldn't say. Nonetheless,
the hope in the music industry is that Apple's music service will make
the competing offerings look shabby by comparison and force Amazon and
Google to pay the licensing rates the labels are asking.

The major
labels are reportedly hoping that Apple plans to unveil its licensed
version of cloud-based music hosting at its Worldwide Developers
Conference (WWDC) set for early next month, moving quickly to market
with what many hope will be a superior offering before Amazon and
Google's services can become entrenched.

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/11/music-labels-hoping-apple-can-force-amazon-and-google-into-cloud-licensing/

ahahaha....so global licensing music is being proposed?

Too late now. It's demolition time for the remaining label. (It's only WMG and Universal left. for gawd sake.

Sony Will want to work nicely with Google, since they are dying/bleeding badly and Android is the only product that sells these days. Sony attacking/suing android will means the end of Sony existence online. People will fry them with nastiest hack ever concocted by angry online mob.

WMG? It's small. It's nothing but lawyers operation. Music wise, aside from back catalog, they are useless.

UMG is entirely different game, but they are based in europe for most part, so doesn't seem likely they are going to do all out media war in the US.

EMI is finished.

All in all, the so called "music industry" is now nothing more than a group of lawyers and lobbyists, the values strictly lies in back catalog.

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Google best bet would be to grab it all by creating entirely new platform of music recording ecosystem. From "unit sale" of disc/album business model, to music experience in a internet network. (which is really what apple invented unwittingly with itune. )

Apple is very weak when it comes to large scale networking and global presence.

gtimusic

"All in all, the so called "music industry" is now nothing more than a
group of lawyers and lobbyists, the values strictly lies in back
catalog."

I have been blissfully ignorant of the larger "music industry" for the past several years (I never listen to music on the radio and find all of my music on indie music blogs and occasionally magazines - I didn't hear Cee-Lo's "Fuck You" for the first time until after it had been out for a year)...but is this really true? I started to take notice when Cake and the Decemberists had #1 albums earlier this year, so I guess it's possible...but have the majors really crashed and burned completely then? How are the crappy mainstream bands still in existence?

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In term of WMG, browsing their artist list the closest thing I've ever posts are all few years back.

Rilo Kiley, Regina Spektor, The White Stripe, Rancid, The Black Keys. The rest I don't know or I purposely ignore by definition (Metallica.) I don't think I can recall any album they release lately that I desperately want.

http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com/artists?page=9

Big labels biggest problem is not easy to solve, their media machine is broken. And the internet is just not as easy to tame. It's a complete chaos compared to glossy,radio,mtv cycle..

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