Google Music Officially Launches in the US

From DailyTech: Back in May, Google announced its music service and launched Music beta at its I/O Conference for developers. Now, Google Music is finally here and ready to challenge the likes of Amazon's Cloud Drive and maybe even Apple's iTunes.

Music beta allowed users to upload up to 20,000 songs from their music collection to the cloud for free and stream it on any PC or Android mobile device.

Now, Music beta has grown into Google Music, and it offers a number of features for both avid music fans and artists.

Google Music is basically a cloud-based music storage service. Listeners can automatically sync their entire music library via the cloud across all types of Android devices as well as PCs. User-made playlists stay just the way they are across these different devices as well.

Google, of course, wants you to buy music in addition to bringing your own collection to the table. To help you out (rather, to help open up that wallet of yours), Google has released a new music store in the Android Market, which is fully integrated with Google Music.

The new music store offers over 13 million tracks from various artists. Songs or entire albums can be purchased right from a PC or Android-powered device, and the songs will be added to your Google Music library automatically.

The music store offers music from artists associated with many different labels, such as Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, Universal Music Group, Merge Records, Warp Records, Matador Records, Naxos, Merlin and XL Recordings.

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