Dropbox acquires Audiogalaxy.

Dropbox has just acquired the music streaming company named Audiogalaxy. It is just a service that takes your particular music combines it with an incredible number of other songs in their special version of internet radio. This acquisition could mean that now Dropbox could be buffing up the already existing minimal functionality it already has for MP3s and could we be discovering a cloud based music internet service from Dropbox soon?

Audiogalaxy does have a legal record as it turned out originally a file-swapping service, but who wasn’t the government financial aid 2002? The brand was shut down for many years, before it re-launched as a cloud-based streaming service closer to internet radio. It appears that the company will be assumed into the Dropbox team as opposed to remaining an independent entity.

Audiogalaxy combines the streaming facet of services like Spotify with a twist. It can take your very own music, and find songs that match that music and stream that music and your personal music. If Dropbox could add a suggestion service into every song you placed into Dropbox, that could prove to be useful for most users.

It very well might, as it already has the cloud infrastructure in position and has a strong user base to which it could possibly push its music streaming services. Dropbox could leverage Audiogalaxy’s experience in both storage and streaming in the files. Having said that, penetrating forex would surely be an uphill undertaking with players like Apple rumored to be launching their own Pandora-like services.


Whether or not Dropbox will make this successful is also up to pricing. It will be interesting to see if Dropbox replicates the ‘freemium’ design which other players have in position or it could come up with some interesting business model which will make it really stand out and about. A possibility of ad-funded model is additionally there. However, today’s audiences want ad-free music, and they will be ready pay a price for of which