05.15.13
OMG! Google! Music Service!
Holy shit! Google has just started a music service that won’t have to pay musicians much of anything, just like iTunes, Rhapsody, Spotify, and a bunch of other services you can’t remember the names of:
“All Access will cost $9.99 a month in the U.S., or try a 30-day free trial. It’s available now.A search field will appear at the top of All Access. Users can search for an artist. There’s also Listen Now, a mix of favorite artists, radio stations automatically created and recently played tracks …Users can break down by music genre, too. Users can play a track, and choose to turn it into a radio station related to that song. Users can reorder tracks in their queue or easily remove songs by swipes!”
Half of the “music curating” will be done by software robots, the other half by free-lance human beings being paid 50 cents/piece, formatted to fit Twitter broadcast.
The world just got more hyperconnectified. And now artists will have even more ways to reach an audience! In addition to all the pirated music on Google YouTube, that is.