Music Hub: Samsung's iTunes Killer

Stan Schroeder
Mashable

“(Music Hub) is an all-in-one assault on all the major online music selling formats, offers streaming, radio recommendations, storing your own music in the cloud and a music store.”

Accompanying the launch of its flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3, Samsung has launched an online music streaming service called Music Hub.

It’s an all-in-one assault on all the major online music selling formats, offers streaming, radio recommendations, storing your own music in the cloud and a music store.

The Music Hub Store is free and offers a 19-million-song catalog provided by 7digital. Users can buy songs and albums as well as listen to 30-second previews of all songs. Music is stored in the cloud and automatically appears on all your devices, but it can also be stored on your devices for offline listening.

Music Hub Premium, which costs 9.99 euros or pounds (approx. $16) per month, upgrades on this with unlimited streaming, a recommendation engine, personal radio and Scan & Match Cloud Locker, which lets you upload your music to the cloud — similar to Apple’s iTunes Match service.

Among other features, the service enables users to search for new music, create playlists, share songs with friends, view lyrics and album info and create personal radio stations.

Finally, users can also access their library on any PC at www.musichub.com.

The service will initially be available on the Samsung Galaxy S3 (other devices are coming “soon”) in Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the UK.

May 29th, 2012
Mashable