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Sony's 'Music Unlimited' Service Shutting Down After Failing to Emerge as Viable iTunes Alternative

Apple apparently will be unveiling a serious streaming service sometimes soon as a successor to the waning iTunes purchase model.

Apple has always been someone shaky in the web service department (.Mac, MobileMe, Maps, Ping, etc...) so hopefully this is one thing can nail off the bat.
 
iOS Version Did Not Rock

I known people who worked on the MU iOS version. It was JavaScript based, so running in a UIWebView, and had all kinds of serious issues.
 
EvilEvil said:
Not sure what this has to do with Apple but ok!
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Sony's 'Music Unlimited' Service Shutting Down After Failing to Emerge as Viable iTunes Alternative

You don't even have to read the article, it's in the title.
 
The Sony service was rather limited, in my experience. Much worse than MOG used to be (before Beats ruined it) and worse even than Spotify or Rhapsody.

Right now, Google Music is by far the best, since it combines a very decent library (better than Spotify) with great features (and really user-friendly integration with Search on Android). Plus, you get the YouTube Premium music videos thrown in for free.

Google Music is way better than Beats and iTunes Radio is not even in the running, just like Sony was not.

BTW, I have not purchased music from iTunes in well over a year. Streaming is the now and the future.
 
I once had MU due to a PS+ offer, my main problem with the service was the software on Android was bad when trying to download stuff for offline playback.
 
If you have a PS3 or PS4, you will have heard of this service. I never subscribed to it, felt it was too limited.
iTunes cannot be beat at this point.
 
Shlooky said:
If you have a PS3 or PS4, you will have heard of this service. I never subscribed to it, felt it was too limited.
iTunes cannot be beat at this point.
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I have a PS3, and still, to be honest, I had no idea they had a streaming service.
 
CFreymarc said:
You want to see a die-off in the next few years, Wearable Technology start-ups will die off like a meteor hit the planet surface. Half of the offerings at CES this year were up there with rubber chicken shows.
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And I'm confident the iwatch will go with them.
 
"Publishers are being held to ransom by Apple and they are looking for other delivery systems, and we are waiting to see what the next three to five years will hold."
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Cry me a river. And what was the situation before Apple? Artists were being held to ransom by recording companies and publishers.

No one is holding anyone ransom to Apple. If you want to come up with your own music service, then do it better than Apple and it will probably succeed. Look at Spotify; it seems to be doing just fine. It sounds like Sony didn't get it right and so now they're looking for blame.
 
Another failed sony venture - no surprises.

On the gaming platform MS seem to be going from strength to strength, adding content and functionality, where as on my PS4, I've had nothing new since it launched and now a service has been turned off.
 
Since the Apple quarterly announcement I am looking at Sony crumble before our eyes. 1000 laid off and now this. Sad sad sight for Android.
 
Words from the song The Great Die-Off

We want it all and we want it now
Tonight I'll watch your fires burn out
With guns in hand we pry these guns from yours
We want it all and we want it now
A tide has come in to drown you out
We make ourselves at home while your body's still warm
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Is that Spotify or Apple singing this to Sony?
 
Doubt this has anything to do with Apple, Sony failed with the promotion of this service. Was not even aware it existed, seems others posting also did not know it existed.

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creediddy said:
Since the Apple quarterly announcement I am looking at Sony crumble before our eyes. 1000 laid off and now this. Sad sad sight for Android.
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Android ??? Mkay.....

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maflynn said:
I have a PS3, and still, to be honest, I had no idea they had a streaming service.
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Ditto...
 
RoastingPig said:
yeah because imma sign up for a music service that i have to listen to on a ps4 and not my iphone, macbook and ipad.
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It works on iPhone, MacBooks, and iPads...

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maflynn said:
I have a PS3, and still, to be honest, I had no idea they had a streaming service.
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Um, there is a Music tab on the PS3's XMB that literally screams "Music Unlimited". You must have never gone to that tab.
 
macUser2007 said:
The Sony service was rather limited, in my experience. Much worse than MOG used to be (before Beats ruined it) and worse even than Spotify or Rhapsody.

Right now, Google Music is by far the best, since it combines a very decent library (better than Spotify) with great features (and really user-friendly integration with Search on Android). Plus, you get the YouTube Premium music videos thrown in for free.

Google Music is way better than Beats and iTunes Radio is not even in the running, just like Sony was not.

BTW, I have not purchased music from iTunes in well over a year. Streaming is the now and the future.
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Streaming may, or not be the future. I have bought lots of songs, albums, films, TV series on iTunes, I have NEVER used any streaming service, and I don't like the idea of it somehow. If a service like Sony's shuts down I might not be able to find my favourite Songs, Bands etc somewhere else, so in that respect it is much better to have it on my disk, or better even on CD or Vinyl.
 
I think my Sony HDTV has this service, but I, like everyone else who uses a Sony TV has probably never even noticed it! HAHA!

OH! I just realized. I never accepted the Terms of Service agreement! LMAO

It's like 5 pages long or more. My eyes glazed over and I hit RETURN button on the remote! LOL
 
Ah man, I know most dont' use the service, nor even know about it... but I use it daily (I don't like Pandora, Milk, iTunes Radio and Beats).

I asbolutely loved Sony's music streaming offering. The interface was fluid, I was able to pull up any single song and listen to it, download it for offline, they had great customized playlists for occassions like Christmas, etc.

I know a lot of these streaming services offer around the same thing, but I loved Sony's implementation of it, specifically because of the interface. I'm a interface guy so I appreciate a solid smooth experience when browsing around.

This is sad a sad day :/
 
EvilEvil said:
Not sure what this has to do with Apple but ok!
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Apple has another service, Beats, which has been doing rather poorly so far. Doesn't sound like it has a lot of customers in the US, and it's not even available outside - if it is, it's certainly not in a lot of countries. Every now and then, someone speculates how this is going to take over the world because it's bundled.
 
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