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Sony announces music plans for Qriocity, it’ll be portable
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 26 November 2010
Sony Corp has announced that the music strand of its stupidly named content-on-demand service Qriocity will be available via the PSP handheld gaming device.
Sony launched Qriocity earlier this year in the US, with a European roll out under way, and it currently works on Sony PCs, TVs, Blu-ray players and Playstation 3 consoles. Initially the content on offer was video-based, but it was known a Spotify-style music service was in the pipeline too. And yesterday Sony said that that service – when it launches – will also be available on the portable PSP and, while a launch date is tbc, an upcoming firmware update will get the gaming devices ready for the music service.
Writing about the new Qriocity music service on the PSP blog this week, Sony’s Eric Lempel said: “This will allow users to access millions of songs stored and synchronised through the cloud. Users can discover new music through channels ‘personalised’ to their tastes on multiple devices and without the requirement to manage digital music files”.
