Sony's Qriocity Music Service Launches in U.S. Sony Network Entertainment had promised to launch its Qriocity Music Unlimited subscription service in the U.S. before the end of the first quarter, and today that promise was met. The U.S., in addition to New Zealand and Australia, now have access to the service that aims to compete with iTunes, Rhapsody Zune and others. Other than the area of availability, there's really nothing new about the U.S. launch. The full name is still "Music Unlimited, powered by Qriocity. It costs $3.99 for a customizable Internet Radio experience, as well as a "scan and match" feature that reads all the music stored in users' digital library and then allows users to stream only those songs from any Music Unlimited device… like a music locker. For $10 a month, Sony's new streaming offering will function much like a typical music subscription service, with music on-demand from a catalog of 6 million titles and the ability to create playlists.
"That's where the early adopter lives," he says. Sony Launches Music Subscription Service in U.S. Without Mobile | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD. There are a bunch of music subscription services in the U.S., all of which offer more or less the same thing at the same price. And now there’s Sony. Which is offering less at the same price. Sony is rolling out its (bear with me) “Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity” service today, and it’s a lot like MOG, Rhaposdy and other competitors: It sells access to all the music you want, whenever you want to hear it, for $10 a month. But unlike its competition, Sony’s service won’t let you take the music with you on your iPod or mobile phone. Which, as I’ve noted before, is pretty much the whole point of these things. What’s Sony thinking? There’s also an interesting backstory about why Sony isn’t launching with mobile. When Sony does go mobile, expect to see it on Android first. Schaaff, by the way, should be an interesting person to talk to about Apple and its head-scratching subscription fiat.
Sony's Qriocity aims to put Connect, iTunes behind | Media Maverick. Sony wants to take back digital music from Apple. The creator of the Walkman says it is ready to challenge iTunes, forge ahead into music streaming, and also put its doomed prior attempts to build iTunes-killers behind it. Today, Sony unveiled a new cloud music service in the United States that will play songs on a mix of Sony devices, such as the PlayStation3, Bravia TVs, and Blu-ray Disc Home Theater system, as well as a range of Sony's portable devices. The service is called "Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity," and hopefully the service is less clunky than the name. For $10 a month, Qriocity subscribers get access to music from all four record labels and 6 million tracks. Music will be streamed from Sony's servers to devices so users don't have to worry about clogging hard drives and Sony won't have to worry about building any complicated software platforms (we'll get back to that).
Sony's answer to that is "wait and see. " Is iTunes vulnerable? Musique. Parcourez des playlists triées par Genre, Era ou Mood. Des boutons "Like" (j’aime) ou "Dislike" (Je n’aime pas) vous permettent de personnaliser les canaux selon vos goûts. Utilisez My Channel pour créer de nouveaux canaux en fonction de vos artistes préférés. Avec l'abonnement Premium, la musithèque Music Unlimited devient la vôtre. Découvrez un catalogue de millions de titres, notamment les derniers tubes et des classiques intemporels. Cliquez sur le bouton HQ Audio ON (HQ audio activée) dans les paramètres de votre compte pour retrouver chaque morceau sous la forme d'un fichier au format AAC compressé à 320kbps, soit le niveau de qualité le plus élevé tous services d'abonnement musical confondus. Sony, Record Labels to Take On ITunes by Offering Fee-Based Music Service. Sony Corp. and the world’s major record labels, are starting their own music streaming service in the U.S. this quarter that will challenge Apple Inc.’s iTunes, after years of letting start-ups license their artists.
“Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity,” which Sony unveiled in September, started in the U.K. and Ireland in December and in France, Germany, Italy and Spain this weekend. It’s available on Sony’s Playstation 3 game console, Blu-ray Disc player, Bravia televisions, personal computers, and will be on smartphones using Google Inc.’s Android operating systems. “We took a long time looking at music before jumping in,” Tim Schaaff, the chief executive officer of Sony Network Entertainment, the division of Sony overseeing Music Unlimited, said at the MIDEM music industry conference in Cannes, France this weekend.
The move also helps record companies take on Apple’s iTunes Music Store, which in February reported its 10 billionth song download. ‘Dead Bodies’ Sony’s Clout Service Payment. Sony’s Music Unlimited Will Not Offer Free Streams. Mark Harris at About.com almost got Hypebot excited about Sony's Music Unlimited service. In a headline on his blog, Harris suggested that the music service will be offering free streams. This would be a bold move. Sony Music would be challenging Spotify at its own game before even launching in the US. But in reading a further, we found a contradiction between what Harris said and what Bloomberg reported.
In Harris's defense, Bloomberg does say, "Music Unlimited will rival streaming and download services already on the market, including cloud-based sites like Spotify, whose majority of users access the service for free in return for sitting through ads. " "Free doesn't make any money," Thomas Hesse of Sony Music states. Bloomberg also reports that Music Unlimited has "no designs on becoming ad-supported. " "...Sony is to offer consumers free songs via streaming audio. Sony's Music Streaming Service Coming To PlayStation Devices In U.S. At its 2011 CES press conference, Sony confirmed that its new cloud-based music streaming subscription initiative is coming to North American shores in 2011. Music Unlimited, which debuted recently in the UK and Ireland, offers subscribers access to over six million songs from every major label for a reasonable monthly fee. The service can merge with your existing music catalog and learn your music listening behaviors over time, which helps it determine recommendations.
Anyone who owns A Sony Bravia TV, PlayStation 3, PSP, VAIO computer, or web-connected Sony Blu-ray player can sign up, and once you've synced your library it's available instantly on any of the devices. Though we don't have a hard date for the service rollout or a confirmed subscription rate yet, Sony says we'll get a chance to check it out before the end of the year. Sony to launch Music Unlimited cloud music service in North America. Sony said today it will introduce its Music Unlimited cloud music service in North America in the coming months. Music streaming services have got a lot of attention in recent months as a force that could make music downloads obsolete. Apple recognized the threat when it bought music streaming service LaLa. Spotify serves music streams in Europe, but it has apparently been stymied because of complex talks with copyright holders.
Sony is in a different position because it owns the rights to a huge library of music. The Music Unlimited service will be available to users on Sony connected devices such as its Bravia TVs, Blu-ray players, Vaio PCs and PlayStation 3 consoles. Music Unlimited will be available on music.qriocity.com when it is available. The service has already launched in the United Kingdom.