Google’s unlimited music streaming music service, known as All Access, has officially launched in Europe’s most populous country, Germany. The service will cost you 8 Euros per month if you sign up before January 15th, but anyone signing up after that will have to pay 10 Euros. What do you get for your hard earned Brussels sponsored funny money? You can listen to whatever you want, whenever you want, wherever you want, and not have to worry about getting hit over the head with a lawsuit from a record company.

How does Play Music compared to the other streaming music services? Spotify is the oldest, and they have time on their side. By that I mean they’ve had quite a few number of years to secure contracts with not only the big labels, but the smaller ones as well. The assumption I’m trying to imply here is that chances are you’ll have more local music on Spotify versus All Access. Both services should have the music at the top of the charts, however, so that’s not going to be a problem.

There’s also the whole cross platform thing. If you have a Windows computer, Android smartphone, and an iPad, you really are better off going with someone like Spotify or Rdio or Deezer since they’re dedicated at offering rich cross platform experiences. Google on the other hand, they seem to want to be like Apple. Offer the best experience on their own platforms, and ignore everyone else.

Shame, really.