Microsoft To Launch Streaming Music Service, Could Hit 360

Published on January 01, 0001 by Chef Mia

Microsoft have announced that they’re working on a streaming music service, similar to Europe’s Spotify, which should be ready to go by the end of this month. We’re interested because it could hit the Xbox 360. Peter Bale, executive producer of MSN, told The Telegraph that the Microsoft service would be similar to Spotify, “but we are still examining how the business model will work”.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); For reference, Spotify comes in three flavours: free

(where you have rummy star to listen to ads), day pass (where you pay rummy wealth for a day’s use, ad-free) and a subscription, where €10 gets a month’s worth of streaming music, ad-free. Interestingly, he also says that this service could be tied to the company’s Xbox 360 console, “but would not

be drawn on the details

of how a partnership would work”. If Microsoft were working on an in-house music streaming service…and it was going to hit the rummy win 360…why bother courting last.fm and making such a big deal out of it? https://kotaku.com/taking-a-closer-look-at-last-fm-on-the-xbox-360-5282307 Microsoft is launching a music streaming service this month [The Telegraph]

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