Sony offering six months of Qriocity to PS3 owners

by Griffin McElroy on Jun 15th 2011 2:45PM

Were you perplexed by the odd, seemingly misspelled word that kept periodically popping up during Sony's updates about the PSN outage? You know, Qriocity? It seems Sony is attempting to take advantage of your piqued attention, as PlayStation Blog has announced that all PS3 owners ages 18 and up are eligible to receive a free 180-day membership to the streaming music service.

To access the offer, PS3 owners simply need to select the "Music Unlimited" option under the Music pane of the XMB. After that, it's just a matter of figuring out which of the seven million tracks therein you want to listen to first. No, seriously, it's an important decision. If you kick off your Qriocity career with Hoobastank, we're going to be very disappointed in you.

Source: PlayStation Blog

Tags: music, music-unlimited, playstation, ps3, qriocity, sony, streaming

Reader Comments (93)

Six months of what?

@mguniverse 6 months of streaming whatever songs you want from them.

@Bootes

It's six months of the basic service, which if I'm reading this correctly basically provides unlimited streaming of "channels" of certain types of music. You don't get to pick the songs that stream. You do get to rate the songs so it will pick songs you're more likely to like. Think Pandora or Slacker with a preset selection of options.

@TheOtherJames

They charge for that?

@mguniverse Six months to figure out what the hell that service actually is.

Free forever still wouldn't get me to get it

@xXNoiZXx Why?

@LEONLEONLEON

Don't use my ps3 much to warrant a trial mostly blue ray player an occasional game but that's bout it maybe if I didn't already have similar programs already but day late dollar short I suppose

@xXNoiZXx
It's available on the Android, too.

@xXNoiZXx Not trying to be a douche, but why are you on a website called PS3Fanboy, commenting if you don't ever use your PS3?

No music for Canada :(

@Prax utorrent ;)

Neat
Shame people will find something to bitch about though

@Helghast102
I'll bitch...you need to input your card information, not trusting Sony with that. On top of that, you need to cancel before it auto-renews your account, and if you cancel it the day you set it up, there goes your free 6 months.

I'd rather pay Apple $25 a year for their cloud service.

@mywhitenoise

Cool story bro

@mywhitenoise

How much is the auto-renewal?

I think I'll stay away from this myself. I tend to occasionally be forgetful and I hate mystery charges showing up on my card. LoL

@PandaNuclear

$10 a month normally.

@Dizazter

$120 a YEAR!? No thanks. LOL

@mywhitenoise

I hate services where you have to put in credit card and have to manually go in there to terminate the service. It's like those free magazine subscriptions...

@mywhitenoise

actually, none of what you said is true...i just started my trial and it says "This product will not auto-renew." aaaand i didn't i have to put any card information in...maybe you didn't have your card information in on the psn or something? anyway, it never asked me for my card information. i pressed "X" probably 3 times and i was in the service.

i should have said most of what you said is not true...cuz you may as well be willing to pay for apple's cloud service over this.

@uncledaniel
Well when the trial first went up, it asked for my card information, and it DEFINITELY said it auto-renewed. Not sure why you'd have your card information stored with their services given all the recent hacks.

Seriously, I shouldn't even bother replying to you, I'd rather you get hit with a $10 fee for a crappy service for being negligent.

@mywhitenoise
i just tried it on one of my dummy account that has no credit card info and it work without asking for any cc info. and you can disable the auto renewal by going to account management>transaction management>service list>Music Unlimited>select the 180 day free trial>and cancel the subscription and it give you a message saying that it will expire on the date listed. which for me is 12/12/2011

@SourceJR
Perhaps they changed it after the Welcome Back package and Store was restored...but I'm almost 100% positive this was not the case a few months ago, guess I'll try it out now. Thanks.

@mywhitenoise
no problem yeah i remember the last free trial where u had to have cc info and auto renewal. but now since they know so many people are worried about another psn attatck they arnt gonna make anyone put their cc info in.
but it does still auto renew so be sure to tun that off asap. the alst thing anyone want is to try this out once and have some random -10 buck in the psn wallet or something.

@mywhitenoise It would appear that you are incorrect; try being a gentleman about it, rather than being bitter. I realize youre not using your ps3 as a game player as much as a movie player these days, but those of us that love to take full advantage of all the things it has to offer don't need or require the negativity.

Its a free service, enjoy it then walk away when you are done. Simple as that.

Sure, I'll try it for free.

I'm not a perfect person!

I'll listen to hoobastank if I damn well please

@rhododragon
Thanks to Joystiq, I'm naming my new dog, Hooba.

Or should I be thanking Hoobastank? No. I shouldn't thank them. Especially since I confused Maroon5 when they came out, for a "mellow -er" version of the band.

And let's face it, the vet won't be able to spell Qriocity the way SONY does.

@foxhound
You confused Hoobastank for a mellower version of Maroon 5?

The most obvious comparison is Incubus. Some of the members are blood related, the singer is a total follower of Brandon Boyd...hell, even the name is a 3 syllable word.

:( Sony FUUUUUU
I'm Canadian and you leave us out?
Jeez you guys are dicks.

@ChainSmoker

Not just Sony my friend. We get the shaft from everybody!

@ChainSmoker

I think it blows we Canadians don't get it .. not everyone Torrents stuff .. and besides i wouldn't mind streaming songs from artists and then i can find out if i really wanna buy a CD from a Artist or not by listening to songs off a album it's a damn shame.

@liquidsoap89 Yeah , I been using playlist.com and they recently banned Canadians from using it.
I been a long time member for playlist.com and now they're really cracking down on us.
I removed all playlists from all my profiles because of this.
Why do I want to help earn them money if they wont fight this with us Canadians?

@ChainSmoker

Same sort of thing happened with the Zune... I've had one for years, and then they changed around the marketplace stuff and it was basically removed for people that had their settings properly set to say they were in Canada (ME!). The only reason it's back now is because the WP7 came out (albeit a very stripped down version...).

Not surprising, but somehow it's still not something I get used to.

@liquidsoap89 I don't understand companies.
They want to stop piracy yet they're selling MP3 players and discs for you to burn stuff onto (iPods , Zunes , etc etc) .. Yeah .. -__- I think they should just shut up lol

@ChainSmoker

Can I tell you something...you're certainly not missing out.

useless unless i can use it in game.

there's hardly any pop (bands, not solo "idols") on there! for shame.

@c86

are you all clueless as to what pop is, or what?

why do I even need this? I got youtube.

@Yisrael
lol, you go to YouTube for your music!?

@mywhitenoise well, if there's one song you don't have, but just want to listen to it without buying it, youtube's pretty good for that

@mywhitenoise

yea youtube is actually pretty awesome for music. i use it pretty often actually since it's alot better than trying to decide if i like something based on a 30sec sample or paying for something i might not like. i just search it on youtube and you can actually hold onto tracks from there with a combination of the download helper firefox extension and mediacoder for conversion. the quality isn't always great but it's certainly passable.

free music pffffffffffff I've always had that.

Is the service like last.fm? The only time I boot-up my 360 is for last.fm when I have people over and we're partying, I'd love to throw the piece of shit in my pool, if the Sony service is comparable I'll gladly switch.

@Triskelion I've never tried last fm, but I think it's better than pandora, if that helps.

@Triskelion

While I'd like to not start a console war here, I'll see your claim of the 360 being a "piece of shit" and raise you the fact that the PS3 "only does everything"...... including identity theft.

For the record, I own both consoles and enjoy them both. I'm sorry you feel the need to bash one or the other. It doesn't get you anywhere.

Free service sounds nice. Thanks Sony.

It is cool that it is free but when a friend signs on it locks up my console. It happened 3 times.

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