Google unveils YouTube Music Key subscription service to compete with Apple's Beats
Search giant Google on Wednesday announced YouTube Music Key, a subscription service that will allow users to stream music from the popular video sharing site without ads, play music in the background, and access playlists offline.
Music Key --?launching today in beta for $7.99 per month --?will bring these additional features to the YouTube app. Following the introductory promotion period, the cost will rise to $9.99 per month, though subscribers will also gain access to Google Play Music.
Google also introduced a number of other music-focused updates, including a new dedicated music section. The new section will let users browse playlist and quickly find previously-played songs while following their favorite artists.
In addition, users will soon be able to access music videos for entire albums at once as YouTube moves to bring more organization to its music options.
The service would appear to compete with Apple's Beats Music, which charges $9.99 per month for streaming and offline access to its catalog as well as curated playlists. Apple is believed to be in the midst of negotiations with music labels that would see that price cut to $5 per month amidst a broader re-architecting of the offering.
Music Key --?launching today in beta for $7.99 per month --?will bring these additional features to the YouTube app. Following the introductory promotion period, the cost will rise to $9.99 per month, though subscribers will also gain access to Google Play Music.
Google also introduced a number of other music-focused updates, including a new dedicated music section. The new section will let users browse playlist and quickly find previously-played songs while following their favorite artists.
In addition, users will soon be able to access music videos for entire albums at once as YouTube moves to bring more organization to its music options.
The service would appear to compete with Apple's Beats Music, which charges $9.99 per month for streaming and offline access to its catalog as well as curated playlists. Apple is believed to be in the midst of negotiations with music labels that would see that price cut to $5 per month amidst a broader re-architecting of the offering.
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Google unveils new music streaming service to compete with Google's old music streaming service.
very inventive of them, wow they 've turned the world on it's head again with their innovation.
Not to compete with but to add value to Google Music. For $8 a month for all-you-can-consume I don't think there's any other music service that comes close in either catalog or features at the moment. You get professionally curated playlists (a'la Beats) based on activity and time of day, ability to specify track or artist or album selections similar to Spotify, music video tracks via Youtube and their licensed content partners, zero ads...
Other than it being a Google-provided service which makes it a non-starter for a small but vocal group I think it's a darn compelling value for music lovers.
You for got the end of advertisement for Google tag ....
AI was just setting up the joke ... you know, playing the straight guy, for all of us actual Apple folks here to mock.
Is there really that much money to be made in streaming music services? I guess they will be able to cull yet more personal information out of the people who pay for this, but come on.
Sorry to hijack this thread but while we are on google, anyone in the know on what this is:
http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.gr/2014/07/announcing-project-zero.html
It's a security research project, and apparently on launch in July they claimed they were hiring. Then in the unmoderated replies, a handful or so people asked, well tell us how we can apply, but this repeated question went without answer.
Of course, after no reply from "the employers" at google, in October the thread degraded to this:
The forum posting is a unique and interesting job!
One report they have on Apple in October, gets a similar high level, "whatever" response.
Apple was widely criticized when it originally launched a very buggy and unstable version of safari for windows 8
Of course Safari's latest windows version was in 2012, but if you don't actually reply to people you invite to employment in your project, you get moronic shit like that as replies.
Anyone well versed in security can put this in perspective? Not in terms of what exactly they are smoking at google, but on whether this site/project has gained any traction in the security IT world.
It's from the link you already looked at. I'll assume you're a security researcher?
Anyway to get back on track do you have any opinion to add on the value or lack thereof of Youtube Music Key?
I wish I could pay Google to leave me alone and not track me.
It's called not using any of their services
http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/
It's from the link you already looked at. I'll assume you're a security researcher?
Anyway to get back on track do you have any opinion to add on the value or lack thereof of Youtube Music Key?
That's my hobby, my main line of work is bs detector. As for youtube music key, I expect it to be off.
I know this doesn't really apply, but I'm reminded of that old saying where the person is repeatedly hitting themselves with a hammer.
"Why are you hitting yourself with a hammer?"
"Because it feels so good when I stop."
I wish I could pay Google to leave me alone and not track me.
"DuckDuckGo" is our friend.
What do you suggest?
I use DDG, but Vimeo is not a replacement for YouTube yet.