Microsoft Hits the Restart Button With Xbox Music - Tricia Duryee - Commerce - AllThingsD

It'll be interesting to see if players such as Spotify and Pandora are impacted

"Xbox Music will be familiar to consumers who use other streaming music services, like Spoitfy and rdio. From the start, it will have access to more than 30 million songs globally and 18 million in the U.S. It’s launching in 15 countries.
A free ad-supported version will allow users to manage their entire music catalog from their PC and supplement it with an online catalog that is streamed over the Internet. Users will be able to skip from track to track, create playlists or listen to an album without restrictions (at least for the first six months). A premium version will cost $10 a month and will work across PCs, the game console and Windows 8 phones."

Microsoft Hits the Restart Button With Xbox Music - Tricia Duryee - Commerce - AllThingsD