RIM today announced BBM Music, a BlackBerry Messenger-based music service. According to RIM, BBM Music is a cloud-based music service that enables BlackBerry Messenger users to discover and share music through a community-based music library.
BBM Music allows you to build a personal music profile with up to 50 songs. You can refresh your profile by swapping out up to 25 songs each month. Up to 50 tracks from your personal profile are shared with your BBM Music Community, and each member of your community can share up to 50 songs from their profile with you. So with each friend that is added to BBM Music, you grow your music collection, since the songs from their profile become available to you.
Users can select music from a catalog with millions of songs from leading music companies, including EMI, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group.
Within the app, you can see a visual timeline that shows the recent updates of all users within your community. It gives you a chronological view of community updates, including who added new friends and which songs were added or removed. You can create multiple playlists from music in your profile as well as all of your friends’ profiles, and you can see which friend contributed each song while it plays.
In keeping with the social music aspect, you can also comment on friends' songs and playlists and keep track of how many friends are listening to your music. Music can be saved to phones for offline listening, allowing users to access songs even when they don’t have wireless coverage.
This new service is in contrast to popular streaming music services like Pandora, Slacker Radio, and Spotify, which allow users to stream any number of songs from millions of choices.
According to RIM, BlackBerry Messenger currently has over 45 million subscribers. BBM Music is being tested in a closed beta trial starting today. It is expected to become commercially available to BlackBerry Messenger users later this year for a subscription fee of $4.99 per month.
Source:http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2391810,00.asp?kc=PCRSS05039TX1K0000762
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