Microsoft expanded its Xbox Music service to Android...
Microsoft expanded its Xbox Music service to Android and iOS devices via new apps for those platforms, it said. The music service is nearing its one-year anniversary, Microsoft said Monday in a news release. Microsoft is also making free streaming…
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on Xbox Music available via the Web, it said. The music service will also launch on the Xbox One console that’s shipping Nov. 22, said Jerry Johnson, general manager-Xbox Music. It’s already available on PCs and the Xbox 360. Subscribers get unlimited access to music across all their devices for $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year, said Microsoft. The addition of free streaming on the Web gives subscribers access to 30 million songs globally for free on the online Xbox Music Web player or through the Xbox Music app on all Windows 8 tablets and PCs, it said. Xbox Music “will continue to grow and evolve over the coming months,” it said. The company, for example, will add the existing Radio feature, previously called Smart DJ, to the free Web player, calling the feature a “quick and dynamic way to personalize” one’s music collection, discover new music and “create ultimate playlists by launching instant mixes based on” favorite music artists. Xbox Music will also “grow on Windows 8 when it adds the anticipated new Web Playlist tool this fall,” it said. The tool scans all the artists and music available on a given Web page and creates a custom playlist of all that music, it said. “In the coming months, additional updates” for iOS and Android will become available, including an “offline mode” that lets users save music to their device for playback without a data connection, it said.