AOL has announced the closure of its music service in France: AOL Music. Everything has been said directly to Twitter by AOL. But AOL has not said its last word, following the announcement, the team said its new service is already being prepared and that it would be a novel and significantly improved user experience. The service is not completely closed, just version French firm for now, the U.S. version is yet to keep. According Mediametrie, AOL Music has attracted last September about 2.17 million unique visitors, which is not great for music portals. Close to like new again? While its competitors have announced different one after the other new offerings on the online music (Google, Facebook and Microsoft, for example), AOL decided to close it, close to relaunch later something new, something more powerful . It is true that today it is increasingly hard for a portal dedicated to music to cope with services or Spotify as giants like Google that bind partnership partnership. The future will tell whether AOL took the right decision by closing its service. AOL Music will be offline from November 17, 2009
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