You are in for a treat: starting today for a limited time, eligible PlayStation 3 owners* can try out a free 180-day Basic subscription of Music Unlimited for free!

That means that you have 6 months to check out the service and listen to 7 million tracks before you decide to sign up for a full subscription.

The Basic service offers an ad-free internet radio style experience with access to dozens of music channels by genre, rap, rock, etc., era, 2000s, 1990s, etc. and mood for example energetic, mellow, morning and many more.

You can personalize the channels by rating played songs as “like” or “dislike” so the music channels become more tailored to your musical preferences.

By using the MusicSync feature (this can only be used via the Q Music Unlimited PC interface) you do not have to go through the lengthy process of uploading your songs to the cloud which you have to do on other services.

To access the 180 day Basic Service free trial, log on to your PlayStation 3 system and click on the Music Unlimited service below the Music icon. Once the application has downloaded, follow the sign up instructions.

Don’t forget, you can now enjoy Q Music Unlimited on the go thru Sony Ericsson’s Android-based mobile devices (e.g. Experia Arc and Experia PLAY) as well as on Android-based third party devices.

Just visit the Android Marketplace to download the app and access your music anytime, anywhere.

Hope you enjoy!

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It’s my pleasure to officially announce that Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity is now available for PSP in the following countries: UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Australia and New Zealand.

As you can see from the image below, the interface is just as slick as on the PlayStation 3. In addition, you can access the service on Sony’s 2010 and 2011 models of network-enabled BRAVIA TVs, Blu-Ray Disc players, Blu-Ray Disc Home Theatre systems as well as VAIOs and other PCs.

In previous posts about the service, many of you have asked about mobile capability and this is one step closer to being able to take the service with you on the go.

Through the service, you can access more than seven million songs. With the premium service offering, you can also search and access all music tracks at any time and access dozens of music channels spanning a variety of genres, moods and eras, and create playlists. .

By studying users’ listening habits and incorporating their preferences, the service delivers dozens of personalized music channels uniquely tailored to your tastes, and because the service offers a synchronised experience across all compatible devices, there is no need for you to manage or transfer music files.

Remember, if you already have a PSN account, or even if you don’t, you can activate or register at https://music.qriocity.com/ and get a 30 day premium service free trial.

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Hi, I’m Mark and I work over @SonyEurope on the Consumer Electronics side of Sony’s business (BRAVIA TVs, Cyber-shot cameras, VAIO PCs etc). I’m blogging for @PlayStationEU because, as some of you might hopefully be aware, Sony has recently unveiled its new cloud-based music streaming service: Music Unlimited. It’s an exciting venture for us as it allows you to stream music on a range of Sony networked products, as well as through your PS3 (and any PC).

Last weekend, the team behind Music Unlimited visited the MIDEM 2011 conference in Cannes. If you haven’t heard of MIDEM before, it is an annual music industry conference where movers and shakers come together to talk about issues being faced, unveil new products and ideas, and showcase forthcoming bands in music in 2011.

Sony was there to announce that Music Unlimited, which went live in the UK in December, is now available to those of you based in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. President of Sony Network Entertainment, Tim Schaaff, who is the main man behind Music Unlimited, also flew over from California to engage in some of the key debates of the digital elements of the activity. Following an interesting discussion around the future of music in the cloud (featuring Sony Music’s Thomas Hesse, more of him later), Tim took to the stage to be interviewed about Music Unlimited and the Qriocity platform in general. MIDEM have the full interview on their YouTube channel, and we live-tweeted the conversation on the Sony Europe Twitter stream:

The following day started off with a very special visitor to the Sony booth at MIDEM – the French minister for Culture and Communication, Frédéric Mitterrand. He had expressed in interest in the service and wanted to see how it worked, so he was given a private demonstration of Music Unlimited by one its developers. Let’s hope the network access in the Minister’s office allows him to stream his favourite tracks at work!

Next was a very special Q&A put together by Sony, which brought the major players from the four major record labels into the same room to discuss Music Unlimited and music streaming in general. Alongside Tim Schaaff and Shawn Layden (both from SNE), we had: Mark Pibe, global head of digital music at EMI; Michael Nash, EVP of digital strategy and business development at Warner Music Group; Rob Wells, president of the global digital business at Universal Music Group; Thomas Hesse, president of global digital business at Sony Music Entertainment.

Again, the event was live tweeted by Sony Europe, and the MIDEM blog has a transcript.

Hopefully for those of you into music and thinking about the future of music online, these discussions are interesting and stimulating. We’re also pleased to let you know that you can currently enjoy a free 30 day trial of Music Unlimited’s premium service – head over to http://www.qmusic.com to find out more.

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Today at IFA 2010 in Berlin, Sony announced that Music Unlimited Powered by Qriocity, a cloud-based digital music service, will be coming to PlayStation 3 later this year.

The service will give you access to millions of songs that are stored and synchronised through the cloud and can be accessed via PS3, BRAVIA TVs, Blu-ray Disc players, Blu-ray Home Theatre systems and VAIO computers, with one single account and without the need to manage digital files.

Further details, including exactly when and in which countries Music Unlimited Powered by Qriocity will launch, will be announced soon.

“We are excited to offer our customers high quality, cloud-based entertainment experiences across many of Sony’s network-enabled devices,” said Kazuo Hirai, President of Networked Products & Services Group, Sony Corporation. “Services ‘powered by Qriocity’ will revolutionize the way that users play, listen, watch, share, communicate, learn, discover and create their digital entertainment content.”

We’ll share any further details here on the PlayStation Blog as and when we receive them.

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