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The search engine giant Google has won the race with his rival Apple to the launch of a music-streaming service in Germany. For St. Nicholas Day launches Google this country his music and radio streaming service “Google Music Play all inclusive”. Apple users are still waiting for a German version of iTunes radio. In the U.S. iTunes radio is already available. Users can, – adapted to suit your own taste – can stream music to their devices. Apple has so far given no indication of when his service is coming to Germany.
To start Google requires 7,99 Euro, the first test month is free for its new service. Those who after 15 Logs in January paid monthly 9.99 euros. Apparently, the negotiations on music rights for Germany were tough. The “All Inclusive” service is available in front of the Germany starting already in 20 countries, including Austria. Here, Germany is likely to be one of the most important markets for Google after the U.S..
A similar model offer in Germany already services like Napster and Spotify. Also there are the first 30 days free, then require the provider nearly ten euros if users want to listen to their music on mobile devices. In contrast to iTunes radio users “Google Play Music All-Inclusive” select specific tracks to listen from a catalog of 20 million songs. They can also create radio station with songs or artist of their choice, which will play music that are based on this taste. Songs can be skipped.
Google users are already able to store 20,000 songs in your library’s own title for free on Google’s servers and access it from anywhere. This works both with the Internet browser as well as smartphones and tablets. Either they charge for their music on the Google calculator high, or they use the scan-and-match function. In this case, Google will scan your music library and matches them with their own catalog. Is the title there exist, it must not be uploaded.
With its “all inclusive” service allows Google in the Browse millions of songs, sorted by genre, charts, new releases and recommendations of an editorial. The music can also be downloaded to the device, to listen to them even without an Internet connection, for example in aircraft.
smartphone and tablet applications for Google Play Music is available for both devices running Google’s Android operating system as well as Apple’s iPhone and iPad. Streaming services are becoming increasingly important for the music industry. In Germany, sales climbed with these offers in the first half of 2013 by almost 140 percent. There are now about 20 vendors. On the whole music market streaming services make this country but only three percent of sales. In Sweden, where the market leader Spotify was founded, there are already 70 percent.
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