It’s my pleasure to officially announce that Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity is now available for PSP in the following countries: UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Australia and New Zealand. As you can see from the image below, the interface is just as slick as on the.
The service is called Music Unlimited Powered by Qriocity, and it serves to let PSP owners 'instantly stream songs, create playlists, and received personalized music channels from a catalog of.
In addition, you can access the service on Sony’s 2010 and 2011 models of network-enabled BRAVIA TVs, Blu-Ray Disc players, Blu-Ray Disc Home Theatre systems as well as VAIOs and other PCs. In previous posts about the service, many of you have asked about mobile capability and this is one step closer to being able to take the service with you on the go. Through the service, you can access more than seven million songs. With the premium service offering, you can also search and access all music tracks at any time and access dozens of music channels spanning a variety of genres, moods and eras, and create playlists. By studying users’ listening habits and incorporating their preferences, the service delivers dozens of personalized music channels uniquely tailored to your tastes, and because the service offers a synchronised experience across all compatible devices, there is no need for you to manage or transfer music files.
Remember, if you already have a account, or even if you don’t, you can activate or register at and get a 30 day premium service free trial. I’ve been using Music Unlimited since around launch on the PS3 and on my PCs here – we have two subscriptions – so I’m very familiar with the system. It looks very nice on the PSP, exactly like the PS3 I think. I bought the PSP just for Music Unlimited in fact. But – after some time of PSP playback, it starts pausing at around 10 seconds into each song, while the activity light flashes madly.
Then it carries on. It’s as if it can’t keep playing until it has more data downloaded for the rest of the song. Turn the PSP off, the restart, and the problem is gone for a while. But it always comes back in due course. Like it gradually runs out of memory, then chokes.
Can this be checked out please, and fixed in an update? It seems to be something wrong with the buffering strategy. It spoils an otherwise very good experience. Many thanks for the response – I do suspect that the issue relates to the quality of link from the PSP to the access point. It seems to require a very good percentage figure, around (say) 80% on the connection quality display on the PSP, to get reliable streaming. In practice this is quite hard to achieve unless you can be pretty close to the access point and with nothing adverse in the way (walls, metal etc). I wonder therefore whether further tweaking of the PSP buffering strategy to best cope with real-world usage might be possible at your end, so that Music Unlimited will keep playing even if the link isn’t that good – though I realise that at the end of the day, if the link can’t keep up long term, there’s an insurmountable problem.