When it comes to all you can eat music subscription services, Australia is a relative wasteland compared to the UK and the US. But Sony seems to be trying to fight that, backing up their launch of Music Unlimited with a service called anubis.fm, a partnership with Sonos that lets Sonos users access millions of tracks from their Sonos device.
Exactly why Sony and Sonos decided to name their service after the jackal-headed god of the afterlife in ancient Egyptian mythology we’ll never know, but given that they’ve got a catalog of over 2 million tracks from Sony Music, Universal, EMI, Warner and independent labels, it’s a fairly extensive service.
For $12.99 a month, you get on demand access to any of the tracks available on the service, without having to create a workaround to the US music services on your Sonos. There’s also a 30 day free trial, if you’re interested in checking it out and own a Sonos.
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Matt
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 9:43 AMMaybe cause they’re aiming for this to be the God of all streaming music services once all the other services have been abandonded and left for dead?
MoreMusic
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 10:18 AMRhapsody is also available to Australian users. This won’t replace, but instead compliment Rhapsody, as it widens the range of albums available. Namely the ones that Sony BMG, WB etc don’t have.
Craig D
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 11:08 AMHuh, it’s just a marketing stunt.
The service IS Sonys existing Bandit.FM but with a new skin over it.
Gregory Opera
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 11:01 PMYeah, I’m a little confused about the whole anubis.fm/bandit.fm thing… They look identical, but they operate independently (i.e. my bandit.fm account does not work for anubis.fm).
I’ve sent an e-mail to bandit.fm asking them what the connection is, how the sites differ and how they relate to bandit.fm/anubis.fm users… bandit.fm are usually pretty good with their customer service, so hopefully I should have a reply in a few days.