News - 19/12/2012

Google launches its scan-and-match music locker in the US

Google launches its scan-and-match music locker in the US

Last November, Google launched its free scan-and-match locker service in Europe; now (starting from December 18) it's also available in the US, since the Mountain View company has secured the necessary copyrights from the majors and some indie labels.

Basically the service is really simple and it's connected to Google Play; "Our new music matching feature gets your songs into your online music library on Google Play much faster" Google explained in a statement. "We'll scan your collection and quickly rebuild it in the cloud - all for free. And we'll stream your music back to you at up to 320 kbps".

With this service Google is trying to reach Apple and Amazon, which both already offer similar scan-and-match locker services allowing their users to stream music they own - without having to upload the songs (a long process, which can take whole days if your music library is wide and you own lots of records).
Compared to the same service offered by its two competitors, Google's one has two advantages: it's free (while Apple an Amazon charge $24.99 per year) and it streams files with the highest quality - 320 kilobits per second against 256 kbps of Apple and Amazon.
On the other hand, Google's free service offers the smallest storage space: it allows each user access up to 20,000 songs , while iTunes limits each user to 25,000 songs and Amazon has a stunning 250,000-song limit.
 

 

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