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Now playing: Twitter #music. Today, we’re releasing Twitter #music, a new service that will change the way people find music, based on Twitter. It uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists. It also brings artists’ music-related Twitter activity front and center: go to their profiles to see which music artists they follow and listen to songs by those artists. And, of course, you can tweet songs right from the app. The songs on Twitter #music currently come from three sources: iTunes, Spotify or Rdio. By default, you will hear previews from iTunes when exploring music in the app. Subscribers to Rdio and Spotify can log in to their accounts to enjoy full tracks that are available in those respective catalogs. We will continue to explore and add other music service providers. Google Music Beta versus the titans of the streaming music space: a chart.

Google Music vs. Amazon Cloud Drive. Google is finally launching its Google Music service at this week's Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, a year after its reveal at the last event. The new service will be similar to what Amazon launched in March, an online storage locker where your songs will be stored in the "cloud. " In this case, the "cloud" refers to Google's servers. Once your music is uploaded, you can stream it to your Android-powered mobile phone or via the Web to your computer. While both Amazon and Google's offerings have the same basic concept behind their design, there are some notable differences between the two, as detailed below.

Amazon Cloud Drive: 5 GB for Free, Support for Multiple File Types "Cloud Drive" is the brand name of Amazon's cloud-based streaming music service. Although the focus, at present, is on providing an online home to your MP3 collection, the service already supports other types of files, too, including documents, pictures and videos. Geographic Restrictions. Google Inc. Announces The Launch Of The Highly Anticipated Google Music Beta | Trends Updates. The King of the Internet, Google Inc. might have lost one round of hoping to snag in Skype, since now it has become a part of Microsoft, but in no manner is the search behemoth going to let it bother even a bit.

At highly coveted developer conference, Google I/O 2011, one of the most cherished and widely revered Internet firm finally unveiled and launched its highly anticipated cloud based music service, Google Music Beta that will not only be able to store all your MP3 collection on cloud servers, but will also prove to be a mighty competitor to the immensely popular iTunes from Apple Inc. As the service is currently in Beta, it has been restricted to U.S user base only and just like the earlier Gmail days, is strictly invitation oriented. Inside Google Music [PICS]

We've just cracked the seal on Google Music, and so far, we're pretty impressed. First, the service's Music Manager desktop app scraped our iTunes (it can also go through other apps to find your full music collection); it will automatically add new songs to a Google Music account (in the cloud, of course) as soon as they're added to iTunes.

After a few minutes, the songs uploaded to Google Music from iTunes on the desktop automatically appeared on our Android phone and tablet. It took five minutes or so for the first 150 songs to upload. We imagine getting one's entire musical library onto Google Music could take some time, especially for the hardcore music fans out there. The service can store up to 20,000 songs per user on up to eight authorized devices. But as for the wireless syncing between devices, the experience doesn't get much more simple or convenient than this one. UPDATE: A couple hours later, the iTunes playlists are showing up just fine. How will Google Music fare without label support?