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CNET News - Google launches new music-streaming service

2013-05-15
music service that's about music and the technology fade to the background we built that service and today I'm happy to announce google play music all access a uniquely Google approach to a subscription music service why don't we show it to him Jake let's pop it up on the phone all access starts with explore it's the guided way for you to browse an entire collection of millions of tracks and from the moment you enter explore we provide personalized recommendations based on your listening preferences so here's some of my personalized recommendations we also have a section that we can swipe over to that shows a featured content top albums and songs as well as a playlist from our staff of music experts it's always fresh but if you want to guide our assistance we can swipe over and look into specific genres so we have a 22 top level genres with more to drill into and why don't we pick Alt + E and go in there and show them what it looks like so once we're in here you see expert powered recommendations here playlists that are curated by our music editors as well as top albums from the genre and key albums that define the genre but like everything in all access anything you see you can immediately start playing so jeiza picked a track first here so so far so good but here's where the magic starts because anything that I'm listening to an all-access I can instantly turn into a radio station so Jay hits start radio the song keeps playing but in the background all access has made us a never-ending mix of related tracks now for curious about what's coming up we can swipe to take a little peek ahead but more importantly we can tap on the playlist icon and see in detail everything that's coming and tailor it to our needs so if there's something there we don't want to hear swipe it away swipe it away you want to show in reordering you can also reorder tracks in the queue so this is radio without rules it says lean back as you want to or as interactive as you want thank you all right sometimes you know exactly what you want to listen to and we're google so there's always search at the top so right now I'm in the mood for some James Blake once you go ahead and light that up and so when one james blake play on over there that's great so won't we pop into the artist here and when we do we see a couple things that are interesting here about how all access blends my catalog with all the millions of tracks available to you so you see here that there's one album that i previously uploaded to the locker from james blake but if we scroll down we see the rest of his tracks and albums that are available to me in all access blended together and i notice his most recent album is available there so won't you go ahead and tap on that and add it to my library so by adding it to my personal library now it's shows up here at the top it's easy for me to access at all times my library contains all my personal music that i uploaded as well as anything that I've discovered and added from all access but other times I just want the music to start I want to get to music with minimal effort that's where listen now comes in listen now brings the power of google to surface music we know you're going to love there's always a fresh set of choices in here so in my listen now view you see the album i just added as well as some other tracks that i've played recently there's also new releases from artists that i enjoy and you also see interspersed in here are radio stations that all access has created for us automatically with listen now there's always a great selection of music available to me from my library and all access and every day it surprises me i can't wait for you all to have your own magic moments with listen now so so far that's been all access on the phone but of course works great on tablet and web browsers as well so when we pop up the laptop this is all access on the web browser as you can see it has the same great set of features listen now is here with all my suggested content get me one click to music I've got my library radio and of course explore and I can enjoy all access whether I'm on my laptop on my tablet or on my phone so to recap all access allows you to explore millions of tracks effortlessly on any device risk for millions of tracks effortlessly on any device radio without rules it's completely interactive if you so choose Google powered recommendations and one-click access to your music from listen now and of course the best of both worlds your personal library blended with ours that's all access no there's a lot more I could show you but really I want you all to try it yourself so let's talk about how you can get it all access is priced at nine ninety-nine a month in the US but we're also giving everyone a 30-day free trial best of all it's launching today in the US and we'll be rolling out two additional countries soon and if you start a trial by june thirtieth you'll pay only seven ninety-nine a month that's all access it's been my pleasure to show it to you and now I'm going to call you go back to the stage thank you very much
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