{"id":122614,"date":"2015-03-25T15:31:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T13:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=122614"},"modified":"2015-03-25T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T13:34:00","slug":"mtn-music-plus-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/122614-mtn-music-plus-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN Music Plus launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has launched a music streaming service called MTN Music+, which it says will feature music from all over Africa, including South African favourites.<\/p>\n<p>Available as an Android and web application, Music+ subscriptions will cost between R10 and R49 per month, with the first month free.<\/p>\n<p>The MTN Music+ (ZA) app can be downloaded through the Google Play store, and subscribers who\u00a0sign up for their free month also receive 500MB of data.<\/p>\n<p>Those without an Android device can use the musicplus.mtn.co.za web portal to access the service.<\/p>\n<p>After the free month expires, the normal subscriptions will also include an amount of free data which can be used to stream music from the service.<\/p>\n<p>Without a subscription, registered users can still browse and play 30 second previews of tracks.<\/p>\n<p>The various subscription and purchasing options for MTN Music+ are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daily subscription: R10.00 inclusive of 50MB free data<\/li>\n<li>Weekly subscription: R25.00 inclusive of 150MB free data<\/li>\n<li>Monthly subscription: R49.00 inclusive of 500MB free data<\/li>\n<li>Price to buy and download track: R1.00 to R10.00 per track<\/li>\n<li>Price to gift a track: R1.00 to R10.00 per track.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MTN will still offer access to Simfy Africa, a music streaming service which launched in South Africa during 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Until 15 April, MTN has a promotion running that includes 500MB of data with a Simfy subscription for R69 per month.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More music streaming news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/115493-top-streaming-music-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>Top streaming music in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/114753-afrihost-plus-launched-with-free-trial.html\"><strong>Afrihost Plus+ launched with free trial<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/104193-amazon-launches-streaming-music-service.html\"><strong>Amazon launches streaming music service<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/93511-spotify-launches-free-streaming-music-service-for-mobiles.html\">Spotify launches free streaming music service for mobiles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has launched a new music streaming service it calls Music+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":122616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,42,29532,18891],"class_list":["post-122614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-mtn","tag-mtn-music","tag-streaming-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122620,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122614\/revisions\/122620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}