Do we need yet another online music service? Samsung certainly thinks so, as it's just introduced its very own internet radio service called, weirdly enough, Milk Music. So named for its supposed "fresh" take on music (Get it? Because milk is fresh? Yeah, we're not sure about that either), it's free to download from Google Play starting today. In fact, you can start streaming tunes immediately as soon as you launch it, no sign-up required. Best of all, the service is completely ad-free (for now at least -- we'll explain more about this later). The caveat, of course, is that it's exclusive to Samsung phones. Milk Music is a completely separate entity from Samsung's existing Music Hub subscription service, as the former is focused more as a free radio service that you can use without having to set up an account.
At launch, Milk Music will only work on the Galaxy S3, the Galaxy S4, the Note 2, the Note 3 and GS4 variants like the Active and the Mini. It'll also be compatible with the upcoming Galaxy S5. Here's another interesting tidbit: all of Milk Music's 200 genre stations and catalog of nearly 13 million songs is powered by Slacker. Yep, that Slacker. That's why Samsung didn't have to do any licensing deals with content partners to release Milk Music -- all of that was left up to Slacker to handle.
However, everything else about Milk Music -- the logo, the interface, the menus -- is all Samsung. And it's the design of Milk that really makes it stand out from other internet radio apps we've seen. The first distinct difference is apparent the second you launch the app -- you'll be presented with a large round dial populated with nine different genre stations along with Spotlight and My Stations. Spotlight is a set of "what's trending" stations curated by Samsung and Slacker that changes on a weekly basis. According to Samsung, Spotlight is also an opportunity to deliver Milk Music exclusives and "first-listens" from collaborators like Jay-Z. My Stations, as the name suggests, are stations you create yourself based on a particular artist or song. So for example, you can set up a Lorde station that'll play songs from her as well as related artists. You can also create a station based on all the songs that you've marked as favorites. Milk Music screenshots
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