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Sony's Music Unlimited Service Will Let Users Play Music While Gaming

Sony's Music Unlimited service will let users stream music while they play games, according to Sony's director of music services Anu Kirk. Kirk also clarified that the available of the service has nothing to do with the PS4 not supporting CD and MP3 playback.

JoGam3818d ago

I'm really enjoying the music service. Sony have me a year subscription for $12 a year ago. They just sent me an email to renew for $3 for three months. Thats $1 a month. Great deal Sony.

Thehyph3818d ago

I'm on my second free month trial, and it's much better than when I used it the first time. (14 months ago) My only beef with it is some content that I want is not there. The android app is good, and the iOS app is not too bad, either.
One subscription allows you to authorize three (I think) devices for offline playback. Also, they don't seem to care when more than one device is streaming from the same SEN account.
My girlfriend and I can both use it at the same time, and both of our phones can save music to be played offline.

As for a subscription, I'm not decided if I will pay for it yet.

ABizzel13818d ago (Edited 3818d ago )

Agreed it's actually a cool service, when I used it . The problem has always IMO been the pricing.

The value I place on music is less than what I place on movies, so a $10/mo. subscription music service just doesn't do it for me compared to a $10/mo. video service.

I guess it's because most radio music sucks nowadays, a lot of the music I listen to comes from unsigned artist, and I'm a part time audio engineer so I get to make music for a living.

They need to make it $10 - $15/mo. for the music and video unlimited and instead of buying and renting let people stream. When I watch a movie I'm done, unless it become a favorite (then I buy it), so give people the option to do both. That would be a service I could subscribe to nothing less.

I know there are some free movies, songs, and TV shows, but they need to bring streaming to the forefront of the service and allow you to buy and keep your favorite movies. Renting films are a thing of the pass unless you're Redbox ($1 is a great price).

Sony Unlimited:

$10 - $15 per month.
Stream millions of albums, or buy them
Stream thousands of movies / videos / TV shows, or buy them

(Advertisements help pay for service)

Thehyph3818d ago

Yep. The problem IS the pricing. Unfortunately, it's one of the better music services available in Canada. Licensing has always been a problem here, and it shows with the lack of Pandora, Spotify, Google Music, and others.

Bundi3818d ago (Edited 3818d ago )

For a price
$5 a month in addition to ps plus? Lol not a great deal Sony.

SirBradders3818d ago

for $60 a year to access to all the latest tunes your actually saving yourself potentially thousands if your heavy into music. If you want to be cheeky you could get some good recording and converting software and put 2 and 2 together ;-).

Im not heavy into music so i won't be buying it but it does seem a great service when i trialled it for free a year ago.

Bundi3818d ago (Edited 3818d ago )

Or, these console makers could let me plug in my flash drive and play my own music from there instead of removing the feature to funnel me towards their subscription service. -__-

Edit: yoshi didn't confirm anything. It was just some nameless sony rep who said it will be there. Until higher management says so, I'm sceptical.

SirBradders3818d ago (Edited 3818d ago )

I totally agree but my comment is based on a service they are providing.
Im almost certain yoshi has already stated they are allowing it in the 2nd update so there shouldn't be a worry there.

Baka-akaB3818d ago

I agree that it should always be there , in the first place , but it seems it will in an update so , in the mean time , i'm calm .

Nitrowolf23818d ago

honestly I say wait till December or their Christmas Sale to subscribe. Last year I got it for $12 for the whole eyar casue of their sale

mcstorm3818d ago

It depends how you look at it. I pay £8.99 a month for xbox music pass but that is used on my xbox, Surface RT, My Lumia 1020 my other half's Lumia 925 and a Zune we still have. We spent a lot on music in the past but having a music pass that works with all your devices it is a far better deal than spending £10 per album.

Bundi3818d ago

Here is how I look at it, my xbox 360 and ps3 both play audio cd and mp3s. I expect my upgraded next gen consoles to at the very least be able to do the same so that I can play my own paid for music without paying anyone monthly/yearly.

mcstorm3818d ago

@Bundi I agree with that but what I am saying is that paying £8.99 a month is worth throwing out all my cd's as I have access to all this music on my Xbox, Surface, Phone and MP3 Player. Its each to there own but I would often buy 3 Albums a month where with a subscription service I can have more or less any album/song I want synced across all the devices I use.

stavrami3818d ago

boooooo this means people's shitty choice in music being forced on me through there mic while online gaming :-/

Baka-akaB3818d ago (Edited 3818d ago )

You can't prevent people from being idiots , that's a not a reason to refuse features .

People can still tune up some radio or music from their phones for the same if not worse effect

stavrami3818d ago

i think you misunderstand i have not refused anything other than listening to other peoples music THAT IS NOT A ADDED FEATURE

stavrami3818d ago (Edited 3818d ago )

yea i know but this can be a nuisance if u are playing a mp game that switches players at the end of the round, but you are right still at least they can be blocked

PR_FROM_OHIO3818d ago

WOW this is a pretty cool feature!

Bundi3818d ago

Seriously? Man being a single gaming machine owner robs you of some of the most basic features.
I cannot imagine getting excited about being able to do what a current gen console has been able to do for 7 years now...without the extra charge.

I do get excitable however when you try take away features so you can charge for them!

Thomaticus3818d ago

I really feel that the ability to listen to music while gaming should be free.

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mkis0072h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows902h ago(Edited 2h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

-Foxtrot1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis0071h ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel198955m ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot52m ago(Edited 52m ago)

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Leeroyw2h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno2h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy851h ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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