Who’s the search engine that knows the theme to Shaft?
So you’ve maybe heard about Amazon offering unlimited server-based music storage (call it “cloud” if you must—I prefer the apparently retro/old-school term “online”). Like me, maybe you have a massive music collection that you’ve shopped around the online scene without success because of service storage limits (take a bow mostly Google Music).
(UPDATE: Spotify has clarified that the software made available to me is the U.K. version of the service, not the U.S. version. Therefore, things may change before launch, and these should be considered early impressions.)
Amazon just upped the ante in the cloud music wars (oh yes, that’s a thing now) by announcing some enticing new offers and features for its Cloud Drive service.
Did you ever think you’d see the day? Spotify is coming to the U.S. I should have quotes around that last sentence, because those are Spotify’s exact words per its U.S. launch page.
Like a blind oaf, Best Buy has stumbled into the cloud music arena. What Best Buy hasn’t done is given you any clear reasons to pay attention to this service in the first place.
Of all of Apple’s failures, one of the tech company’s more disastrous was its move into social music sharing with Ping. Things got so bad that Lady Gaga, the social network’s face, publically called the results “underwhelming,” while Apple’s once-promising service didn’t even warrant a mention during WWDC earlier this month.
Google’s doing it, Amazon’s doing it, Apple will be doing it very soon now. Everyone’s putting their music in the cloud. Clouds are, it would seem, where it’s at. Indeed clouds are so happening that perhaps you might prefer to roll your own rather than use someone else’s.
Today’s Google doodle is a classic. Grab a plectrum and head on over to Google.com right now, because it’s time to play some tunes.
In case you hadn’t noticed, this whole online music thing is heating up. First Amazon rolled out its Cloud Player, then Google Music came along, and now Apple is expected to announce its own online music service—the big money’s on something called “iCloud” that’ll be unveiled on June 6th.
Okay, let’s just go through the nerdgasm checklist:
