Google Working To Launch Music Store Soon

afabbro writes with news that Google is working to follow up its cloud music service with an MP3 store capable of competing with Amazon and Apple. The NY Times reports that "According to numerous music executives, Google is eager to open the store in the next several weeks," but it's unclear "whether Google would be able to close the necessary deals with labels and music publishers in time to open a full-service store." The Wall Street Journal confirms in its own (paywalled) report that negotiations with Warner, Universal, and Sony are still a long way from resulting a deal.

So who are they going to buy?

[Anonymous Coward]

Any guesses as to which company they buy and just relabel it as google music?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google [wikipedia.org]

No Direction

[Anonymous Coward]

Google is scrambling for something good and all they can think of doing is what everyone else is doing, with a slight twist. Look at Google+ and their attempt to push Facebook and others out of business because they have "the name". Thankfully, it doesn't seem like it's working, at least not as expected so, now they realize they're missing out on the music end of things and think they can just, jump in on a whim, show up at the party and get everyone to go back to their place.

I hope people are smarter than this. Don't fall for this, please.
Support those who were on the scene first, not mighty Google coming in for the steal.

Re:Will it take over your system?

[the_other_chewey]

I knew someone would object and bring up gtkpod/libgpod. I had a paragraph
about that in my reply's first draft, but replaced all of it with the word "reliable".

Yes, libgpod works well on the devices it supports.

It took ages (close to two years) for gtkpod to support the 5th gen nano, for example.
The 6th gen nano is still unsupported today, nearly 14 months after its launch.

So, go on, tell people they have to wait for over a year if they want to use their shiny
new iThing without iTunes. Good luck.

How many music services do we need?

[msobkow]

All these different music services, competing for the same catalogues of music, trying to get exclusives whenever they can.

At what point is the market deemed "saturated"?

And what good are all these services when they're only available in certain regions of the world (primarily US and UK.)? What about everyone else? Is Apple the only one who can negotiate international sales and streaming rights?