The sudden appearance of this new Android music player, then, is certainly interesting. Remember, Amazon launched just last week. In doing so, it beat Google to the punch -- potentially who may never look back. Now we have a tiny little reminder that, hey, Google has something on the way, too.

The situation gets even more interesting when you consider how the folks from TechFrom10 supposedly got their hands on this new Android music app. According to the site, the software randomly showed up on a writer's Galaxy S phone via an over-the-air update. Now, are they telling the truth -- and if so, does that mean this was some sort of intentional leak? We'll likely never know for sure, but the possibility exists. (It could also, of course, have been a coincidentally timed mistake, or there could be more to the story than what we've been told.)

In terms of timing, there's one other important piece to this Google Music puzzle. The latest round of rumors suggests Google is now , with a for the company's I/O developers' conference -- yep, the same event where we first heard about Google Music -- next month.

This year's Google I/O takes place May 10 and 11. Only time will tell whether all these clues are leading up to something, or whether they're just red herrings in what's starting to feel like a wild-goose chase.

JR Raphael is a PCWorld contributing editor and the author of the blog. You can find him on , on , or at his geek-humor getaway: .