Music Unlimited Powered By Qriocity Launches in the US
While parts of Europe have had Music Unlimited, the cloud-based music streaming service that’s “powered by Qriocity”, for some time now, those of us in the US have been missing out. Today, Sony is ready to roll out the service to internet-connected Bravia televisions, Blu-ray Players and the PS3.
Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity is a new digital music streaming service coming to the PS3 and other select Sony devices. The service comes in two subscription-based plans.
Basic, which costs $3.99 monthly, gives user access to ad-free radio stations and personalized channels that can be categorized by things like genre, era even your mood using SensMe (which has been previously seen on the PSP).
Premium for $9.99 a month, lets users listen to every full song on demand, create playlists and access premium “Top 100″ channels. There’s also a one-time, free 30-day trial of Premium access.
Music Unlimited also lets users sync their existing music and playlists from a number of music services, including iTunes.
Look out for it when it launches later today and in the mean time, check out this video demonstration by SCEA’s VP of Network Operations, Eric Lempel:
10 Responses to “Music Unlimited Powered By Qriocity Launches in the US”
This… is… AWESOME.
Nope not going to pay for a music service. If I pay for music it will be to buy the music for good. Also, Pandora offers some of the same things for FREE. All you have to do is pull up the internet browser on the ps3 and go to pandora.com.
This could be why Apple kicked Sony’s e-book app out of the Apple App store. If this service can pull in iTunes library/playlist information. It is war in the music business and the internet is the battleground.
Looks like the RIAA is loosing this battle Retail CD’s are now a thing of the past.
Uhmm…. So I have a Japanese PS3 so I can’t use this service :/
would be actually cool if they allow us to download the music instead of just streaming it.
Uh… $3.99? I’ll stick with GrooveShark thanks.
They can do this, but they can’t make music playable in-game? I know a lot of people don’t understand why anyone would want to listen to music in-game, but try listening to the annoying and repetitive commentary on Madden or any other sports game and then you’ll understand why in-game custom soundtracks are desireable. I’m not forking over $10 a month if it doesn’t do in-game for every game.
there is a patent on in-game music for the thousand time. it takes 2 seconds to do a search in google to find articles about there being a patent on that……
http://www.ripten.com/2008/03/31/microsoft-owns-patent-for-in-game-custom-soundtracks/
Then why is it possible in some games? Doesn’t that violate the patent? That doesn’t make sense. I’m sure a little bit of effort on the part of Sony’s legal department could get around that, especially since the technology is already available in some PS3 games with no protest from Microsoft. It could be done.
Bye rhapsody, hello Qriocity for the same price i’d rather get this for my ps3, psp and sony Blu-ray home theater system