EMI joins Warner Music Group in Apple cloud music service

Sources have told CNET that EMI has signed a deal with Apple to license its music for cloud-based services. EMI joins Warner Music Group, which signed on with Apple for cloud-based music services last month. The remaining two major labels, Sony and Universal, are expected to sign similar deals with Apple as early as next week.

Getting all four major music labels to sign on to a cloud-based service is seen as a serious win and another vote of confidence for Apple's rumored cloud-based digital distribution services. Amazon and Google both launched cloud-based digital lockers earlier this month, yet neither of those companies have any agreements with the four major music labels. Cloud-based services are rumored to be a big part of iOS 5, and late last month it was revealed that Apple's digital locker services might be called iCloud after Apple bought the icloud.com domain from a Swedish company.

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Sources have told CNET that EMI has signed a deal with Apple to license its music for cloud-based services. EMI joins Warner Music...

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dagamer34

Does this really matter with services like Rdio? Having all your music on demand means you never have to wait 45 minutes to backup and sync your iPhone, making it one step closer to that autonomous post-PC device.

May 19 2011 at 1:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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redcard

45 minutes?

Was that a typo, and you actually meant 4-5 minutes? Even that's a stretch.

May 19 2011 at 4:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jonathan

well, we obviously have no idea what apple will unveil, but it seems to me that all the rumors point to itunes in the cloud. to me that means whatever i buy on itunes is immediately available on all my devices. it also means i can upload whatever i already own to the icloud. my biggest hope is that iphone backups will take place in the cloud. so that every time i replace or restore another ipod or iphone i dont have to ask the person if they have a backup on their computer, and they reply with, "i didnt know you were supposed to even plug this into a computer. you mean i'm going to lose everything?" now with icloud one would be able to say, just log into your itunes account with your apple id and everything will show back up as it once was.

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