Checkmate, music pirates.Ī big part of Music Beta was the Music Manager app for Windows, Mac, and ( two months after launch) Linux, which would upload your entire music collection to the cloud, where Google let people store up to 20,000 tracks for free. You can still feel the icy hand of Google's legal department in the original Music Beta invite, which helpfully informs the user at the bottom that "Music Beta is only for legally acquired music." You've got to super-seriously pinky promise that none of your music came from LimeWire. Google and Amazon both chose to charge ahead under the claim that streaming your own files was fair use, and they would deal with any questions in court. Lee wrote a whole article addressing the question, pointing out that one of the first BYOM cloud-streaming services, MP3.com, was crushed by the music industry in the 1990s. It seems crazy today to ask, "Is it OK to store my files in the cloud?" but music industry lawyers are doing their best to slather a heavy layer of FUD over the whole idea.Īmazon poked the bee's nest first with the surprise launch of an "unlicensed" music locker service earlier in 2011, and Sony Music's saber-rattling response was that it was keeping its "legal options open." Ars' Timothy B. Google Music Beta was strictly a bring-your-own-music service, but back then there was actually some question as to whether that was even legal. The negotiations eventually broke down and Google decided to continue the project on its own." To quote Ars' Ryan Paul in his initial hands-on, "During a press briefing at Google I/O, the company said that it had initially sought licenses but was unable to establish mutually acceptable terms with the music industry.
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While Apple dragged the music companies, kicking and screaming, into the modern Internet era with paid-for downloads, Google couldn't get a music license deal done during the beta. With Google Music, Google didn't need Amazon anymore.įurther Reading Unlicensed: Are Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player illegal?Uploading music was the requirement for Google Music Beta because, when it launched, there was no music store whatsoever.
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It was the only pack-in third-party app and I guess the first-ever instance of Android crapware. Google felt so strongly that it needed something to counter iTunes that, in the early days, it actually ended up shipping the Amazon MP3 Store in Android 1.0. Until Music Beta launched, there was no music service at all from Google, just a basic local music player on Android.
Android was still chasing Apple's superior ecosystem, and one of the holes Google needed to plug were quality media services. Combined, Movies and Music were meant to take on Apple's iTunes media juggernaut. Google Play Music debuted at Google I/O 2011 as "Music Beta by Google." Music Beta was announced alongside the launch of Google Movies on the Android Market store, which was the precursor to Google Play. Thank you for being here today as we celebrate the life of Google's trailblazing music service. Covering the Google news beat in this day and age basically means running a full-time funeral parlor, and just as we did for the death of Google Inbox, we're here to peacefully guide Google Music into the afterlife with a proper send-off. The service will now join Reader, Google+, and countless other products in the great Google graveyard in the sky. Google Music, born May 10, 2011, will leave us after nine wonderful years. The shutdown wave seems to be rolling across the Google Music userbase as you read this, and even if you still personally have access to some parts of the service, you probably won't have much time left to say your goodbyes. For me the store is gone, speakers no longer work, the app is dead, and the website is dead. We've known this was coming for some time, and nothing ever happens across the entire Google user base all at once, but many bereaved Google customers are reporting a total loss of life for Google Music.
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