For the last couple of months rumors have been propogating over the net that Google will launch a Music service. One of the more creative names floating around was GMusic. Most of the speculation came from the reported meetings between Google and music industry executives, and job postings from Google related to music.

At a recent event here in Florida, Googles head of development said "We are not going to be selling music."

He went on to say that "the big opportunity in digital music is in developing the ecosystem: one that allows consumers to move content from the home to the car and between devices with ease."

It looks like a Google music store will not be arriving, but I will bet Google will take some interest in brining some sort of music integration into Google.


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on Aug 06, 2006
I would love to see Google offer a Media Player that's not overbloated like MusicMatch and offer all ripping formats including WAV & MP3pro. MusicMatch sometimes works well but mostly crashes and Windows Media Player 10 doesn't offer WAV ripping for backing up my CD collection, although Version 11 does support WAV it crashes about every third rip. Jet Audio offers WAV ripping for free but it does not create folders and sub folders like WMP10 & MMJB does, so I'm stuck with these unless anyone reading this can direct me to the ONE perfect ripping tool, I would appreciate it very much!
on Aug 07, 2006
Try Easy CD-DA Extractor, here: http://www.download.com/Easy-CD-DA-Extractor/3000-2140-10018859.html?part=dl-EasyCDDAE&subj=uo&tag=button
Works great to rip files directly to folders, can create its own folders on the fly!
on Aug 07, 2006
Thanks Citizen Brian, any others out there? I'll try this one too.
on Aug 07, 2006
Wow, Easy CD-DA Extractor is a hefty $40 and it doesn't do MP3pro...hmmm. I'm so sad...
on Aug 07, 2006
in keeping with the google philosophy of sharing information, i'd like to see them have an engine that searches for music across all digital stores. This crosses a lot of boundaries, though, and i don't see it being easy to do.
on Aug 07, 2006

If Google wants to keep up, they better come up with something fast. Especially with the just released Yahoo Music Engine  .  So far its a worthy alternative to WMP.

As far as a music service, since the satellite radio industry is showing more signs of struglling of late, and with Google having an advertising deal with XM, why doesn't Google just buy XM and go from there?