It’s nice to see BBM Music go official so everyone can get in on the social music application.  Of course we’re seeing a lot of members increase on there due to it being a free trial, but in best hopes folks decide to stay on with the $4.99 monthly fee as well.  Any way, BBM Music updated last night to version 1.0.0.134 and yes a change log is available!

If you’re on Verizon, you may have noticed a message saying your region isn’t supported when installing BBM Music.  The change log reads: ” ‘Region not supported’ errors fixed for certain Verizon customers.” Uh oh, did that say certain only?  I’m hoping the fix goes across the board.  I deleted BBM Music on my Bold 9930 and reinstalled it to see if the message popped up again, but luckily it didn’t.  Update is available in BlackBerry App World.

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Premium services aren’t for everyone, and even if they are it’s not necessarily always worth it.  BBM Music was a really fun beta application to test out for the last few months now.  The free fun is about to come to an end as RIM has rolled out its pricing plan to be $4.99 per month to use.

For me, I’ll end up keeping it as I have come to rely on it a lot for my music and have set different playlists on it which consists of my music along with other people’s music which might be my direct BBM contact or just added through the application.

That’s only my side and I’m sure many of you have your own opinions.  Will you be keeping BBM Music services after the trial expires? Let us know in the comments and tweet us!

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Along with the official release of BBM Music in the United States, Canada and Australia, RIM put out a pretty cool tutorial video on the new music service showing how to access music and to share it with friends.  BBM Music differentiates itself from other music services with the ability to share playlists and to stream other friends’ music from your BlackBerry and even pull some of their tunes to add on your own playlists.

BBM Music has officially launched today in the United States, Canada and Australia.  It’s been several months since we’ve been beta testing the service and I think it turned out to be good with all the great music and playlists BBM users were able to access socially from other friends and contacts.  We were speculating on what pricing would be and it looks like it’s $4.99 per month for premium services.  Here’s all the specifics:

• PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION: The Premium ‘full track’ BBM Music experience is available for a monthly subscription of $4.99 USD ($4.99 CDN and $5.99 AUD). The Premium version will feature a free Premium trial offer.

• Free Premium trial offer*: With the free Premium trial offer, you can use all the features of a Premium subscription for a limited time. Get up to 2 months* free in US and Canada, and one month free in Australia.

FREE SUBSCRIPTION: There will also be a Free subscription to the service that delivers the same social experience as the Premium subscription, but with 30 second song previews versus full song tracks. After your Free Premium trial offer period ends, you can opt to continue using BBM Music without a paid subscription by using this Free subscription. You can upgrade from a Free subscription to a Premium subscription at any time.

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We got the news today that BBM Music was updated in BlackBerry Beta Zone today. The new version 1.0.0.124 brings a lot of new updates, and fixes. Below is the list of fixes, and updates that are included in this update, as well as an updated list of known issues with BBM Music.  Here’s the full change log below, or click here to download from Beta Zone.

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BBM Music got a new update in BlackBerry Beta Zone to version 1.0.0.117.  Moments later, RIM pulled the release out and put up this notice:

I saw this pop up for me the other day, and thought it was just a bug until now.  It looks like the folks at BBOS also noticed that BBM Music Beta had a “upgrade to premium account” window pop up on them as well.  Here’s how to work around it.

Dismiss the pop ups for it by hitting the back button, then close the app completely.  Reload BBM Music, have your songs refresh and you’ll be good to go.  To check when your expiration date is, you can go to Options and see when the date is ending.

Let us know if this works for you!

RIM celebrated the BBM Music launch in the United Kingdom with an awesome party that included famous artist and a bunch of BlackBerry products on display.  Here’s a video recap of the night for those who want to check it out.  Wait a second, why is this a launch part for BBM Music when it’s still in private beta?  Video after the jump.

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BBM Music has just received its first update since launch in BlackBerry Beta Zone.  There’s a full change log with some nice new features and known issues.  If you spot anything else drop us a line!  Of course BBM Music is still in closed beta so only those who are participating in the testing program via Beta Zone can update to this latest version.  Hit the jump for the full change log:

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Yeah I know BBM Music isn’t available to the public just yet, but there are plenty of beta testers out there.  So this tip goes for now and later of the option remains there.  In BBM Music, it streams music off the cloud and you choose the songs you want in your top 50 list and can play all your BBM friends’ 50 songs as well.  Get it?

Now to the point – if you’d like a more “flawless” experience with minimal leg when playing music, cache it!  Simply when browsing through your BBM list, hit the menu button and you’ll see an option called “Cache My Songs.”  This will cache your music to your memory card.  With that said, you’ll have faster stream for your music with very little lag.

 

Thanks Luis from BerryReview for the tip!