Yandex Releases Yandex.Music App for Android

Internet, May 23, 2013. Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX) has released a universal music player for Android smartphones. In addition to streaming more than 8.5 million tracks from the Yandex.Music catalogue, it can also play music that users have uploaded to their phone or to Yandex’s free cloud storage service, Yandex.Disk. Users can create playlists with tracks from different sources, save them and listen to them in offline mode.

Many capabilities of the new Android application, and the iPhone version which has been updated today, can be accessed free of charge. Yandex.Music users do not need a subscription to play songs from their own collection stored on their phone or on Yandex.Disk, or to listen to tracks in a particular genre using the Radio service which streams music from the Yandex.Music catalogue. With the help of Radio, Madonna fans can easily discover other similar artists, and electronica aficionados can hear compositions by various artists in the genre. Also, Yandex.Music can be used to identify songs playing in the street, in an advertisement, or in a movie soundtrack, by just letting the phone’s microphone pick up a fragment.

The full range of Yandex.Music’s possibilities can be enjoyed by subscribing to the service, which costs 199 rubles (about $6USD) a month when paid through the app, or 149 rubles (about $5USD) a month when paid on music.yandex.ru. So that the music won’t stop, the subscription renews automatically. This default, however, can be easily turned off in the application’s preferences. Users of Yandex.Music for Android receive a free month’s service upon taking out a subscription with automatic renewal.

Yandex.Music for Android is available to users in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan and can be downloaded from Google Play and Yandex.Store. To get all the new capabilities on an iPhone, it is necessary to update the application.

Yandex.Music is a service for legally listening to licensed music. As of May 2013, it has more than 8.5 million tracks in its catalogue. It allows searching by artist, album, track or genre. Yandex.Music is available in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. According to comScore Media Metrix, in March 2013 the service’s audience in Russia stood at 12 million people.

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