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*slaps and proceeds to yell at Conner until he understands not to do such a silly thing*

Shame about Zune(more then likely). Never owned one myself but they seemed like well made, stylish devices. I wonder if they plan on keeping this "xbox music" service 360 exclusive or if they'll bring it elsewhere(perhaps under a different name or unified platform)

Honestly, we are witnessing the rebrand of the Zune service which is an exceptional service. However cloud music was a head of its time even streaming services. Look at how Google and Apple aren't hopping in till now. Honestly, Microsoft could come to a rise in the Music business if they would of given the Zune another year or two. Its really hard being a Zune owner (although I didn't get into it until the HD) seeing this happen and Microsoft reacting like they normally do. Pity, really, pity.

what will happen with their music subscription service? i kinda hoped it would expand to other devices(xbox360, phones) and maybe PC cause it sounded friggin amazing - plus a little pricecut would be nice.

This will be hilarious. Blasting a song super loud and trying to yell the name of the song you want to hear next over it. So dumb. So so dumb. And Masterballs: you can stream iTunes to PS3 wirelessly.

does this mean you can listen the songs for free or you have to buy them first?

I hope this Xbox music doesn't require us to have another seperate subscription. (ZUNE MUSIC.)

All I ever wanted is to be able to use Spotify on my 360.

To do that now I'd need to use a third party program which I'd need to pay extra for...great.

I wish they'd just entirely forget about such services and release some non-Kinect exclusive titles instead. This is getting out of hand now. I remember years ago at the dawn of the generation, Xbox fanboys found it hilarious that the 360 had all the games while the PS3 was "just a media centre," and yet look at the current situation. The roles have entirely reversed. We're seven months into the year now - over half way - and yet the 360 hasn't seen a single non-Kinect exclusive title. Even the "exclusive" XBLA titles are popping up on PSN these days - Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, Braid, Limbo, etc. All of its "exclusive" DLC is timed; Call of Duty, Fallout, GTA4, etc. And what do we have to compensate for this absurd lack of exclusive content? The ability to scroll menus with our voices? Awesome. Thanks ever so much guys, this really makes it worth enduring the RRoD.

Microsoft really need to think about what they're doing. At this point in time there's no way in hell I'd ever consider buying the next Xbox console because they're just not making it worthwhile.

Not familiar if their library has it, but I wonder how it handles classical music. When you search for "Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 In D-Minor - First Movement, Allegro ma non tanto" I'm not sure if it will have a hard time searching it.

So last.fm is just chopped liver now? a shame, it was kinda nice having a free streaming music service on xbox, even if it wasn't the greatest.

Meh... the voice recognition on Kinect is still slow and a little wonky... it's usually faster just to type.