Google To Compete With Spotify, As It Launches Subscription Based Music Service
Rumours of Google looking to introduce a subscription based music
service came earlier this year and what do you know, Google officially
announced the service at the I/O meet. Google Play Music All Access
service will let users stream music content on-demand, on their computer
or Android device. The service is going to be a new subset of already
existing music service on Google Play.
Google Launches Subscription Based Music Service
With all access users will be able to listen to unlimited songs, create
custom radio from any song, artist or album, enjoy radio without skip
limits and get smart recommendations based on your tastes. This is
of-course a paid service and will cost $9.99 per month. However, Google
is offering 30 day trial for users and people who sign up to the service
before June 30, will get a limited-time discount price of $7.99 per
month.
US users can sign up for the service at the Google Play Store or with
updated Google Play Music app for Android. No clue on when the service
will be made available for Indian users. The already existing Spotify,
offers a similar service and probably and is quite very popular, so how
does Google' All Access compare to it? Cnet has some answers to that. A
report from them says, Spotify has a more exhaustive selection of
content and offers broader OS, hardware support, more flexible payment
plans and also allows users to share music via social networking sites
Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. Looks like Google does have some catching
up to do, but there no doubt about it being a formidable opponent to
Spotify.


