Google is set to launch a new cloud-based music service, Google Music, at its I/O conference today (May 10).The service will be similar to one offered by Amazon, but will enable users to store up to 20,000 songs without charge.
Amazon only allow people to store around 2,000 songs before they have to pay a subscription fee for access to more memory.
Google had hoped to launch a more comprehensive service with support from all of the major record labels, which would enable it to sell music, but talks broke down and the company has decided to proceed on its own.
But in an interview with All Things Digital, Jamie Rosenberg, who oversees digital content and strategy for Google’s Android platform, said: “Unfortunately, a couple of the major labels were less focused on the innovative vision that we put forward, and more interested in in an unreasonable and unsustainable set of business terms.”
A spokesperson for Google has declined to comment on the new service.
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