Check out the video introduction of the app below and I’ll tear through the service over the next few days and give you some thoughts. The Android version will allow you to run tunes in the background and an update is expected to make this possible with the Apple iPhone. But, of course, MOG has to pay the licensing fees for the music, so this is probably the best we’ll get in pricing for a while. If you cut that price in half, I think everyone and their mom uses it. That’s about the same as similar offerings from Rhapsody on the Apple iPhone or Zune Pass, but I still think it’s a tad pricey for the mainstream. The songs come at the standard rate of 64 kbps but you’ll have the option of higher-quality downloads at 320 kbps.Īll of this mobile music goodness comes with a price though, as the MOG app is free but service will cost $9.99 a month. If you’re worried about your signal strength or don’t want to go over you new AT&T data limits, you’ll be able to download an unlimited number of tracks over mobile data networks or WiFi. “With the launch of our mobile apps, we’re getting that much closer to making MOG ubiquitous and making it easy to access the world’s music collection on-demand for a low monthly fee.” “Today’s music lovers want the ability to listen to their favorite music wherever they want without having to pay for each individual track,” said David Hyman, founder and CEO of MOG, in a prepared statement. You’ll also be able to sync your play lists from the web to your phone. This includes full albums or “MOG Mobius” radio channels – think Pandora-like discovery. The app, which we first spotted a few months ago, will let you stream any song from it’s catalog of more than eight million tracks. “This is a real network of readers,” he said, “not just listeners.MOG wants to make it easier for you to rock out on the go and the streaming music company has just released its mobile music apps for Apple iPhone and Android. Monetizing digital music has been a difficult business so far, but Hyman believes his advantage is that he’s monetizing content, not the streaming itself. “Think of this as like is to the Glam Network,” he said, referring to the women’s content portal which uses the same model. MOG CEO David Hyman told MediaWeek that the site aims to serve as a central hub for advertisers. It may be a key selling point for advertisers, too. For dedicated music fans, that level of access may be a big selling point for the new online portal. Instead, the track just served as a teaser for an upcoming album, and the only way to hear it was on MMN. We couldn’t find it in MOG’s streaming service, either. However, in checking out one of these exclusive tracks here, it didn’t appear there was an easy way to download the tune – it was accessible for playing online only via a Flash-based widget. In addition to the news, reviews and interviews you would expect, MMN will also deliver exclusive MP3s, explains a company blog post. Now the MOG Music Network will serve as a digest of this content, at a separate URL from MOG.com:. Originally, was a network of music blogs on the Web prior to its launch of the music-streaming service in December 2009. In fact, music related content came first in its case, not the apps. While the merits of each service are varied, MOG is clearly hoping to differentiate itself by being known not just as an app, but as a brand associated with music content. No longer is disk space a concern and you have access to the majority of new releases too, as well as older albums, thanks to online catalogs of tunes numbering in the millions, regardless of which service you pick. for MOG or its competitors Rdio and Rhapsody, and only $3 for the questionably legal (and now disappeared) Grooveshark – you can stream unlimited tracks to your mobile handset. You may know of MOG only as one of the many new “cloud”-based streaming services which are poised to overtake iTunes as the preferred way to listen to music while mobile. According to MOG, its network of blogs now generates more than 20 million monthly unique visitors and its goal is to become the largest music network online. The MOG Music Network (MMN) includes music-related news from the company’s network of 1,200 music blogs plus in-house news, reviews another other features. This online news source goes hand-in-hand with its music listening service, the latter which is available both online and as mobile applications for the iPhone and Android. MOG, an up-and-coming streaming music service, has just launched its own editorial hub called the MOG Music Network.
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