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Amazon, Watch Out: Sony Launches Cloud Music Player on PSP

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Sony is debuting a mobile version of its nascent cloud-based music player on April 14, starting with PlayStation Portable owners.

First launched on non-mobile devices in February, "Music Unlimited Powered by Qriocity" will let PSP owners instantly stream songs, create playlists, and received personalized music channels from a catalog of "over seven million songs" from the Big Four music labels: Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Music, as well as independent labels and publishers.

Users will be able to play songs through most internet-connected Sony devices, like PlayStation 3 consoles, Bravia TVs, VAIO laptops, and Blu-ray players. PSP owners can access their accounts on the go. See Sony's video demo below.

Because playlists are stored remotely, in a "cloud," PSP users can synch their music folders to their PlayStations without having to transfer any music files.

Users can try a Premium account free for 30 days by going to Qmusic.

In March, Amazon launched a controversial cloud-based music locker, ignoring protests from record labels over Amazon's right to store digital music. At the time Sony said it was "keeping all our legal options open."

See Sony's video on Music Unlimited Powered by Qriocity, for PSP:

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Sara Yin

Sara Yin

Junior software analyst

Sara Yin is a junior analyst in the Software, Internet, and Networking group at PCmag.com, pouring most of her energy into app testing and security matters at Security Watch with Neil Rubenking. She lies awake at night pondering the state of mobile security (half-true). Prior to joining PCMag.com, Sara spent five years reporting for publications in New York City (Huffington Post), Hong Kong (South China Morning Post), and Singapore (Campaign Asia, Men's Health). Follow her on Twitter at @SecurityWatch and @sarapyin, or contact her the old school way: email. That's sara_yin AT pcmag.com.

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