Samsung’s Music Hub Service Brings 19 Million Songs to the Galaxy S III - moorekrounist

Samsung on Tuesday followed up the launch of the Galaxy S Ternion in Europe with its own smartphone music service that allows users to store music in the cloud and stream information technology for a each month fee.

The music avail is dubbed Euphony Hub and will at first only be available on the Galaxy S III in Germany, Spain, Italy, France and the U.K., merely volition "soon" be offered connected a wider pick of devices, Samsung aforesaid in a press release.

Users bequeath follow able-bodied to buy albums and songs in the Music Hub Store. The purchased euphony is stored in the cloud, can be accessed from different devices and could also be stored topically for offline listening, the company said. The store offers 19 million songs provided by 7digital, a digital media delivery company that has likewise provided music delivery services to Sony, Hewlett-Packard and Research in Motion among others.

Samsung will tender a subscription armed service that allows users to stream all the purchasable songs for $16 per month, Samsung said. Paying users are allowed to upload their entire euphony assemblage to the service and are also able to access a discovery feature that generates receiving set stations supported artist preferences, the company added. To reduce upload time Samsung uses a technology called Scan & Match that scans if a song is already available in the library. Only unmatched songs are uploaded, allowing users to listen to rare versions of the songs they have massed, Samsung said.

Music Hub users can as wel access their library along a Personal computer finished a Web player at musichub.com. The service of process has no advertizing and offers unlimited plays, Samsung said, adding that people can search for music, create playlists, share songs and perspective lyrics and album information.

The technology for the service is provided by the wholly-owned Samsung Electronics subsidiary mSpot, which was acquired by the company in 2012. MSpot also runs white-label streaming services for Dash, AT&T and Verizon.

Samsung is not the first smartphone manufacturer to offer a music service to its customers. Orchard apple tree's iTunes predated the iPhone, and IT introduced its iTunes Match service last September, allowing $25-a-class subscribers to match their own music collection with the 20 million songs available in the library. The music is stored in the taint and users are allowed to download the songs to ten devices including Windows PCs, Macs and iOS devices.

Microsoft also integrated its Zune music platform into Windows Headphone in 2010, allowing users paid access to millions of songs and videos and making them available on PCs and the Xbox. The Zune syncing services are comparable Apple's and Samsung's sharing of music via the cloud.

Different comparable music services that are not tied to a smartphone manufacturer are uncommitted in some countries. A service like Spotify offers to stream more than 15 billion songs to computers and smartphones for $10 a month, and also syncs medicine libraries to the service.

Apple has been able to successfully offer streaming media by integration it across whol of its devices, reported to Giles Cottle, principal analyst at Informa Telecoms &adenylic acid; Media. This is something Samsung cannot offer at the moment, he said. "The all but glaring sign of this is that its Smart TVs and smartphones are still built along completely assorted operating systems, making true convergence most impossible," he said in an e-mail.Without a good cut across-device experience, Music Hub volition "bu be another paid-subscription and cloud music service in a market that is already start to sense much a bit crowded," he added.

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