Announced at E3,
Xbox Music is
Microsoft's (
MSFT) own subscription-based
music service that will rival the likes of
Spotify. A new online leak for an update to the
Xbox 360's dashboard in the U.K. has prematurely revealed that Xbox Music will be priced at £8.99 for a monthly pass and £89.90 for an annual pass. It's speculated that
Microsoft will launch
Xbox Music in the U.S. with the same prices as its current Zune Music Pass service: $10 per month or $100 for a yearly pass.
Another leak from NeoGAF also suggests that a free, ad-supported version of Xbox Music will also launch alongside the
subscription service that will allow cross-platform playlist syncing between
Xbox 360,
Windows 8 PCs and
Windows Phone 8 smartphones. Xbox Music is slated for a launch this fall and will replace Zune Music Pass. Microsoft says the service will have a library of 30 million tracks.
[Via
VentureBeat]
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