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Google Music starts free service to rival Pandora, Spotify

With Apple Music preparing to launch its subscription service next week and Taylor Swift criticizing its royalty payment plans, forcing that tech giant to change course, it's a busy time for the music industry. On Tuesday, Google is going in the opposite direction of Apple's $10-a-month service, launching a free, ad-supported version of its $9.99-a-month Google Play Music in the U.S. The company says it's designed to give artists another way to earn revenue and that the goal is ultimately to bring more people into its subscription service.

It's a direct challenge to Pandora, Spotify, smaller start-up Rdio and Apple's iTunes radio, its free streaming service. Google has the advantage of being able to direct people searching for songs to its service; we'll see how much it drives users to its new service as it launches this week on Android and iOS devices, though it is available on the Web as of Monday.

It features the technology of Songza, the playlist start-up Google acquired nearly a year ago. Songza's key focus is playlists customized to your mood and different times of day. In the blog announcing the news it says its team of music experts "craft each station song by song so you don't have to ... with whatever you need music for—from working, to working out, to working it on the dance floor." As with Apple Music's new radio stations, Sonzga used human curators as well as algorithms, an approach implemented in this new service.

In a dig at Apple, Google stresses that while the service will be free to users, it's absolutely paying artists. This is in reference to the criticism Apple has drawn from Swift and others for originally opting not to pay independent artists for its three-month free trial period for consumers.

Google will allow advertisers in its display ad and video ad systems to target users of Google Music. That gives it access to a massive advertiser base. The question is how many users the new service will draw. (Google won't reveal how many paying subscribers its Google Play Music currently has.)
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/102780959


Let's go Google :pimp:
 
Based Mod said:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102780959


Let's go Google :pimp:
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still not free? I'm out.. In this days and age if you are still paying for music bravo to you
 
vtotheinay said:
what...it is free...

Google Music starts free service to rival Pandora, Spotify
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" On Tuesday, Google is going in the opposite direction of Apple's $10-a-month service, launching a free, ad-supported version of its $9.99-a-month Google Play Music in the US " not free...
 
Theres a free ad supported version and theres an ad free $9.99 version. 

Adaway is gonna hide all those ads anyways.
 
Lol. It says free right in the sentence.
Got the g4 about 2 weeks ago and liking it so far.
 
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BuckingBronco said:
vtotheinay said:
what...it is free...

Google Music starts free service to rival Pandora, Spotify
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" On Tuesday, Google is going in the opposite direction of Apple's $10-a-month service, launching a free, ad-supported version of its $9.99-a-month Google Play Music in the US " not free...
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"Google is going in the OPPOSITE direction of Apple's $10-a-month service."

"Launching a FREE, AD-SUPPORTED version of its $9.99-a-month Google Play Music.."

Google currently has a $9.99 streaming music service called Google Play Music. They will be transitioning that service into a free, ad-driven service so they can compete with the likes of Spotify.

Is this really that hard?
 
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Antidope said:
Theres a free ad supported version and theres an ad free $9.99 version. 

Adaway is gonna hide all those ads anyways.
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what is adaway and how do you get it
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Its an app that hides all the ads on your phone, whether its web browsing ads, or ads that show up in applications, it blocks them all.

You can download it from here but your phone has to be rooted for it to work.

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.adaway
 
Spotify >>

Don't have a reason to try anything else right now, except for the lack of KRIT mixtapes but those can be downloaded anyway
 
I've never tried spotify, but just saw that its on the list for Music that T-Mobile doesnt charge data for so I will download it.
 
BuckingBronco said:
I am not.. You still have to pay if you don't want to hear ads.. It's like Pandora all over again.. You might as well play your music library without getting interrupted by some sleazy ad
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So what's the solution?

How does a company come out with a music service that pays artists for their hard work and pays the company for providing the service?
 
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