Microsoft states 'Xbox Music' launching in fall is 'inaccurate'

@radioactivez0r

I try to enjoy the streaming service of listening to other people's music over Halo chat. Mostly it is gangsta rap remixes with heavy breathing mashed over it.

@radioactivez0r the only thing i dont like about last.fm is that you can't listen to music while gaming.

@FriedConsole

Halo is good, but COD is where all the up and coming rap superstars are. Some guys drop lyrical bombs in there, they may not know who NWA are, but the sure express themselves when they get killed and that passion is what the music industry is lacking these days.

@oOWallaceOo Best comment I've read all day!

@Sh1fty I agree and to add, you can keep 10 songs of your choice forever

@Sh1fty

I have had it for 3 years now.....love it....but I get picked on because I rarely have a Gold subscription but I pay for a ZunePass

@Chris DPSN AggieCEO XBLThe Aggi Zune pass is an excellent service that I can not use and wish Apple or Amazon would adopt. Live on the other hand holds my MP portion of games hostage, something I will not pay ransom on when I use Steam and PSN for free.

@CaptainProtonX
19.99

@CaptainProtonX

Hmm... you know something is wrong when a music subscription service costs almost twice as much as netflix.

@FriedConsole

When I was a kid I had to drag a generator around with my console and TV, uphill, both ways!

@eat it

I am not interested in Qriosity either but at least Sony has the PSP that it will work on. Although I believe it is streaming so I am not sure how portable that is. I would ask if Qriosity is streaming or not but I assume nobody has ever purchased that service.

Isn't the Zune dead? I guess it will work on Windows mobile devices for those 3 people.

I would be interested in a subscription service but I got locked into a iPod.

@eat it
lol that was good

@FriedConsole

Well sadly, the Zune is pretty much dead. Shame really, as the only music players that were better than the Zune HD, were off brands like Cowan and Archos . . . and the only reasons those were "better" were because they are the brands that support every audio and video codec known to man . . . and then some.

Of course the Zune service continues to live on via Windows desktops, Xbox and Windows Phone 7. And you can share the same service and purchases across all your Zune compatible devices, a helluva lot easier than you can with iTunes. Which is sad when you think about it, as Apple were the one's who originally started the whole, it works on all your Apple devices thing, yet Microsoft has managed to make it work a whole lot more seamlessly than Apple has. Go figure.

@eat it

No snow?

@Vcize

... in the snow!

@Dance Mofo
If you are using the same router for your pc and xbox you can stream music directly from it. Of course it has to be on. And it works while you are playing games.

Haha suburban thugs are all over COD

@TCJJ

Or if they go down that road, leave it purely as an option. You know, you have a choice of who you wish to get your music: either the Zune music service as-is (possibly rebranded with Xbox branding), or a Qriocity-style music service.

So long as you have a choice of how you wish to get your music, I think everyone could walk away from it happy.

I for one, love the Zune service exactly as-is. After getting my hands on the Zune desktop software some years back, I dropped iTunes within weeks, and have never looked back. I would really hate to lose that, and have a Qriocity-style service (which I have also tried) shoved down my throat.

@TCJJ

Qriocity wouldn't be bad if it was only like $20 a year.

I wouldn't mind paying that for listening to music when I'm cleaning up or something.

@eat it So far I like Qrocity myself, I've found a lot of good stuff that I'd never heard off.

Zune MVP Marques Lyons does a great job of explaining what REALLY happened in the keynote:

http://tromboneforhire.com/2011/07/12/xbox-music-and-why-i-wish-fact-checking-was-standard-practice/

These "Xbox Music" stories are all wrong. Nothing major to see here.

@GB330033

Good. I would hate for them to mess with my ZunePass. don't screw up a good thing.

@INTRO
Most of that stuff you listed is actually OWNED by Microsoft, and Hense only costs them the initial Cost of employees who would have been paid any ways with or without them programming the app. Even if they got rid of it, your subscription would still cost the same because its owned by Microsoft, and subsidized by them because they want their service to be the best.

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The Zune App costs you nothing, and it costs them nothing as it is a service they own. The Zune team made the app for the xbox because they want the Zune service to be more well known (which they did a damn good job of).
Cost to Subscription - $0

Facebook and Twitter is a free product, no licencing needed. Facebook, and Twitter wanted an app and made it and told Microsoft to put it in.
Cost to Subscription -$0

Microsoft Owns MSNBC so they created an app for it for it because they felt like it, and they can without licencing costs.
Cost to Subscription-$0

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Netlix+Last FM need their own subscriptions still, so the cost is being footed by their respective company with microsoft paying a little bit (maybe a million) every year.

ESPN Only works on certain providers, and ESPN foots the cost of licencing.

@killer rin Okay, proved my point some more. Why did the price go up for services that cost them nothing? Just for ESPN? I don't get it (service isn't offered to me for live shows), neither for millions of other users. I wouldn't use the App anyway, I have a TV.

@INTRO The price went up because of inflation. It's still comparatively cheaper now than it was when XBox LIVE first launched.

@blackangel209 ESPN forces providers to give them money to allow access to ESPN online. This is well documented. The reason Time Warner and a few other providers didn't have ESPN3.com access was they were trying to draw a line in the sand but it being on the XBox was too much and then the data only customers started complaining and TWC had to budge.

Anyone who doesn't think the price of Live went up specifically for ESPN so MS's PROFITABILITY MODEL of Live wouldn't change at all is delusional IMO.

In other words, Microsoft's profits from Live after manpower and server costs were X before ESPN. To stop the profits from dipping to Y, MS raised the cost of Live to keep profitability at X.

@(Unverified)

you can use Zune on live. Install the Zune App on your 360 and let the streaming commence!

@Starcade

i agree. i feel like a turd saying it but overall its a good product