MOG arrives on iPhone, Android with 8 million songs but no multitasking mode (update)
By Sean Hollister 
posted July 20th 2010 8:00AM
posted July 20th 2010 8:00AM
Update: It turns out our difficulties with MOG Radio were due to a buggy preview build; downloading a fresh version of the app this morning, the Pandora-like functionality worked just fine.
MOG MOBILE MUSIC APP NOW AVAILABLE FOR iPHONE AND ANDROID
MOG Delivers the Ultimate Mobile Listening Experience with Unlimited Downloads
BERKELEY, Calif. July 20, 2010 – MOG (www.mog.com), the Web's best on-demand music listening service, today announced that its mobile streaming music application is now available for download through Apple's App Store and on Android Market. The MOG mobile app is free to download and users can enjoy a free three-day trial with no sign-up or credit card required. For $9.99 per month, subscribers get access to more than 8 million songs with unlimited listening and all-you-can-eat downloads, as well as MOG's desktop service which can be accessed using any PC and any browser. MOG is the first mobile service that lets users download any song or album directly to their iPhone or Android phone for a low monthly fee.
MOG brings to mobile devices, for the first time, true "artist only" radio stations. Users can listen to uninterrupted music from their favorite artists for as long as they want since there is no limit to the number of tracks that can be played in a row. Listeners can also discover new artists by using the player's unique slider control to introduce similar artists into the mix. The slider is powered by "MOG Mobius," a patent-pending music discovery engine.
"Today's music lovers want the ability to listen to their favorite music wherever they want without having to pay for each individual track," said David Hyman, founder and CEO of MOG. "With the launch of our mobile app, we're getting that much closer to making MOG ubiquitous and making it easy to access the world's music collection on-demand for a low monthly fee."
MOG Mobile features include:
·Unlimited downloads: Download any song or album directly to your phone and continue to listen to music even when out of cell or WiFi range.
·On-demand streaming: Unlimited listening to any artist, album, or song at any time.
·MOG Radio: Only MOG offers the patent-pending "MOG Mobius" music engine, which enables users to control the mix of similar artists, from true "artist only" radio up to a full mix of similar artists.
·Playlist access between website and mobile: Make playlists on MOG.com and access them on your phone. Favorite tracks that are bookmarked using the mobile app are then integrated into a user's personal library.
·High quality audio: Songs can be downloaded at the standard rate of 64 kbps or users can turn on HQ downloads (up to 320 kbps) to save the song as a larger file with higher audio quality. This gives users the option of receiving high quality downloads for maximum audio fidelity.
·Multi-tasking: In the coming weeks, MOG will add multi-tasking for iOS 4 users that will allow listeners to continue to play music with MOG while using other applications.
Goldfrapp FTW
@icepop77
Ironyyyyy.....
@icepop77 We should hack this app and turn it into the new napsta! free mp3's 4 everybody!
@Fox Con
Yea I have grooveshark and pandora that work just fine. I pay $3/month for grooveshark to listen to anything I want..
@rutter9
Grooveshark + Android + $3/month = XD
@icepop77 How do you fuck up multitasking on Android?
FAIL
10 bucks a month is kinda steep especially when pandora is free....no multitasking sucks too
@jcruz212
I suppose it's very similar to Spotify, no?
@jcruz212
Once they get flash working on jailbroken devices (android users can do this now), users could just go to grooveshark.com and get this service for free and with multitasking.
@jcruz212
So Engadget reports on the new guy on the block that can't Multitask.
Yet Rhapsody has been ahead of the game and just updated yesterday TO be able to multitask.
@jcruz212 Services like rhapsody, napster, etc are not really like pandora at all. In pandora you say.. I like Radiohead and it starts to give you some random radiohead song along with similar artists. Services like this let you say.. I want to hear Radioheads OK computer. And you get to listen to the album in its entirety as if you are renting it.
Unfortunately for these services, more and more young people care less and less about the entire album and just want to hear "songs". People were trained to be patient and enjoy an album from start to finish. There was usually a whole mood and feel associated with the entire album. This is lost when you jump around from song to song from different artists and albums. Its a subtle feeling, but something a few people still enjoy. I'm a little older and absolutely can not listen to my music on shuffle. I can't go from some deep, dark, depressing album to a disco dance beat then back down to talk of suicidal feelings.
@nsfw
100% agree. I'm an album listener myself and I honestly believe mp3s killed the album in some way. It didn't kill it for me specifically, but the instant gratification resulting from the availability to pick and choose means a lot of songs go unheard. Songs that, if given the chance, could be way better than the popular ones or "singles."
@BMills Rhapsody who? the guys of 64kbps? or is it that feature got updated also?
@AdhesiveWombat, grooveshark is also only 3 USD a month.
@Templarian (... to use the mobile application. Free if you have a palm pre :P)
@jcruz212
You missed the part where you can download the music to your phone- all you can eat- for $10/month.
IMO this is an unbelievable opportunity. When it gets JB, opportunity just went x100 (if you get my drift)
@Templarian Agreed, although Grooveshark's weak point is also the music suggestion feature. These days, no one music suggestion it better than Pandora.
Of course, the best ever was the original Launch radio. Thanks to Yahoo for running that into the ground.
@jcruz212 I think rdio is a great app. iPhone only right now, but android and blackberry are coming.
@DalerusOrn There's an Android version of the app. It's in beta, but you can find the link here - http://blog.rdio.com/post/803364897/rdio-for-android
@aubreyq
very few bands create albums worth listening to as such. in the majority of cases, the system was a way for the labels to charge through the nose for a hit single. no more buyer's remorse=good.
Why 320kbps? Seems like a waste of bandwidth. LAME VBR v2 or v
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@cdsfire
Your right hand concurs.
Not the cat's whiskers
Why 320kbps? Seems like a waste of bandwidth. LAME VBR v2 or v4 gets you in the 160 to 220 kbps range with sound most folks can't distinguish from lossless.
MoGo would've tripped off the tongue far more easily. I guess the name is taken though.
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TYPO
You've missed out the G in MOG on the second line.
No multi-tasking on Android? It's like they went out of their way to do that.
@avinash240 I thought multitasking on Android was standard... did not know that the developer had to do something special.
I really thought that Android multitasked out of the box, in a similar way to those old WinMo devices which hogged memory and resources, drained battery power, rendering the phone unusable.
I thought only the iPhone offered "real-world" developer-specific multi-tasking capabilities.
@avinash240 The lack of multi tasking is iPhone specific only.
@Ruthless - "I really thought that Android"..."I thought only the iPhone offered "real-world" developer-specific multi-tasking capabilities."
The iPhone's newly offered multitasking is almost an exact copy of Android's multitasking. The *only* real difference is that Apple reserves the right to arbitrarily deny the use of services in any random application.
On Android, like on the iPhone, you need to build long-running processes as services. UI activities are temporal, and while Android might let them hang around for a while, even giving them a bit of quanta, it kills them mercilessly frequently. That these jokers released an app that didn't manage even the most rudimentary of tasks tells me that their entire app is pretty dubious, so I won't be evaluating.
@avinash240 What are you guys talking about? I just downloaded it from the market and it has full multitasking support.
Also, unrelated, but it's REALLY nice to finally see companies doing simultaneous android-iphone releases :)
I'LL PRE on that with Pandora & multitasking..
why no multitasking?
i'd like to listen to 25 tracks simultaneously just like everyone else.
This sounds very similar to Spotify, which is currently available in parts of Europe, only that we are required to pay £10 per month.
Makes the Zune Pass seem like a very good deal as you get to keep 10 tracks a month.
Any reason this would be better than Rhapsody (other than high high bit rates which don't really mean that much to me)? I tried out the rhapsody service a while back and while the software seemed pretty buggy(i noticed they pushed an update in recent days so that may not be an issue), it was a solid experience overall.
So, who's stopping anyone from slapping a modified ROM on their Nexus One that captures the audio going to the audio driver, then piping it to a server for unlimited music downloads without DRM?
@drange No one. But there are 1000 easier ways to get whatever music you want for free. Seriously, anyone on this site knows how to download any song/CD they want with out having to hack a ROM to do it.
These services can still exist because they're accessible from your wireless device, easy (or should be), nice UI, and legal.
Cody
@CodyTech
Well, maybe I'm just too stupid, but I often have a pretty hard time finding specific tracks I like online. Either they're nowhere to be found, the quality is terrible. or I have to download a complete album or discography even though I'm only looking for a single song. I'd love a service like this if it had a large catalog, I even wouldn't mind paying for it, but then I also want to be able to move the tracks to other machines and not losing them when the subscription ends.
@drange EYE D M & PANDORA +GROOVESHARK. NEVER FAILS ME :)
:)
Wish this was like the zune pass where you actually get to keep the songs.
Why was GrooveShark Mobile never submitted/accepted to the App Store? This is exactly the same thing?! So strange.
Kupo ^^
Downloaded this... and tried it... not worth it... $10/month... I'll pass... Besides, most of the artists/songs I can't find in search.
Grooveshark for Android is Amazing! plus VIP (required) only costs $30 a YEAR for all the music you want and full multitasking.... how can you go wrong?
GROOVESHARK!
GROOVESHARK!
GROOVESHARK!
GROOVESHARK!
@Mossostdrauka
Grooveshark FTW!
I am currently a grooveshark VIP member just for using it on my android phone, and let me tell you this:
the player SUCKS BIG TIME. Even the latest 2.0.x version. It looks very nice , the design is allright, but navigating through the app is horrible. (Go do a search, play a song, then press back and guess what: you dont go back to your search like you would expect from a standard android app, you go back to your HOME SCREEN! Just Three words: What The Fuck!)
And there are some very laughably standard features missing, like deleting a song from a playlist.
If they had a better player they would rule the world because the service itself is of GREAT VALUE, especially at that price.
@Mossostdrauka FUCK YEAH GROOVESHARK, GROOVESHARK, GROOVESHARK
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