Google Inc. could launch a new music service online as early as Tuesday, which will be similar to a service started recently by Amazon.com, Inc., said the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the case.
The newspaper said that Google is likely to announce the service at its annual Conference for developers Google I/o in San Francisco, adding that the service will be operate in mode test initially and does not be available to the public.
In April, Amazon has unveiled a service that allows customers to store about 1000 songs on its free web servers instead of their own hard drives and play them on an Internet connection directly from web browsers.
Google could not immediately be reached for comment by Reuters.
The newspaper said Google did not seek licensing by the four major companies of recorded music and the new feature is likely to include a system that works as a remote hard disk.
Users may listen to songs that they have uploaded to the service in "streaming" mode, but will be not able to download the files, reported the daily.
Earlier in the day, Google-owned YouTube said it will add over 3,000 traditional films for users to rent from Monday.
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