News On Music

11/29/2012 18:17

Almost all have arrived in Italy. The last in order of time is Google Play Music, digital music store search engine. Who is ready to challenge the established position of Apple iTunes, but also the recent competitor Amazon Mp3 and it has adopted a rather aggressive pricing policy. On the platform of Mountain View, in fact you can buy songs, albums and digital boxes, just like in other stores, but often there are many offers and prices for now tend to be slightly lower.

The catalogue is rather broad and includes all the major record companies, although the music industry there have been the barbs against Google in General, accused of being too mild towards piracy. That is just one of several Play section, which also sells books, games, app. You can buy both individual (with prices ranging on average from 0.99 to 1.29 euros) both albums. If you compare those best sellers at the moment in Italy on digital stores, for example, it turns out that in many cases Google Play Music offers the best price.

So purchased songs go in the “my music”, a player via web: to manage tracks, downloads and uploads you need to download a program, through which you can also copy the cloud, i.e. cloud space, your own music collection. And from this point of view, the Big G is pretty generous: you can upload free of 20,000 songs. In short, you can dump on Google cloud storage even the songs in your iTunes, then listen in streaming via the web, or through an app for Android.

A few weeks ago even the multinational Jeff Bezos had launched its online music store, Amazon Mp3, along with the Cloud player Player. The store offers 3 million songs from the four majors, and is without Drm protection, i.e. without digital locks. Here too prices typically starting from 0.99 to single. Purchases are saved for free on the Cloud Player, a virtual archive and a music player which is accessed via the web or by mobile and supporting both iOs, iPhone OS, Android. But the cloud of Bezos can also load the tracks of other stores: free up to 250 and up to 250,000 songs if you pay an annual subscription of about 25 euros. Apple also provides a synchronization service and streaming of their music through iTunes Match: costa 24.99 Euros per year and saves online, so they are always available, approximately 25,000 songs.

In short, digital music on the one hand aims to be ubiquitous in its use; on the other hand tries to bind to and hardware packages and special proposals to differentiate themselves from the competition by offering increasingly wide. Thus becoming also the seasoning that makes tech devices tastier. Thus is explained the initiative of Hp and its new service Connected Music: who will buy computers with brand new Note Windows 8 system can listen to streaming and free all the stories in the Universal catalog for 90 days. And who will buy a high-end product, such as templates or Envy, Spectre can download ten mp3 per month for a quarter. But the idea is also to make special efforts to customers. In addition to the lively scenery is also waiting, now spasmodic, Italian landings of Spotify, the popular music streaming service that has long ago sparks in Northern Europe. For now open and accessible only to a restricted group of users tricolori, his arrival is scheduled for the beginning of 2013. Listening to the songs is free within certain limits; but paying a subscription of some euro becomes unlimited. And with something more you can listen to playlists offline. Its competitor, already arrived in Italy, Deezer, but only allows to listen to free previews.