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Google’s new service may actually launch tomorrow, in beta of course. Here’s the details:

As with Amazon Cloud Drive, Google’s music service will work by uploading your music library to servers, then streaming that music to whatever PC or Android device you’d like, giving you instant access to your library whenever you have an Internet connection. Uploads will be handled by a small downloadable client available for both PC and Mac. There will be a Flash-based web player (which will work with ChromeOS), and the music service is baked into the Music application on Android versions 2.2 and higher, which can also store songs locally.

Not much different than Amazon’s music service, then, with a further limitation: because you cannot purchase music through Google, you must purchase it elsewhere and leave Google’s upload utility running so it will upload your new music for you to the service.

Oh, joy.

It’s certainly an improvement on Android’s current music arrangement, but Apple’s (rumored) set up sounds much, much better. Apple is apparently working out agreements with music labels so they can store one actual file on their servers and stream it to you if you own it. No need to upload any music files.