BBM Music officially launches in the US, Canada and Australia

It's a good app and works well. I participated in the Beta program. My biggest problem is most of my friends have gotten off the Blackberry bandwagon, so access to music I like will be limited.

One thing I learned quickly during the beta phase is that some of my friends/contacts have some really bizarre tastes in music!

Yes! I'm getting it right after this.
Hmmm... Looks like I'll have to wait until tomorrow.

Wooh

I would have loved to try the free trial but it doesn't work on my device (curve 8530) Sucks!

The idea of BBM Music still sounds to me like it was born out of RIM's failure to get an "all-you-can-eat" streaming deal with the labels?

I think this is a fun idea but useless as your single source of music.

It should have been free or give access to all 10+ million songs plus sharing playlists with your friends. That would have been a disruptive service.

YES!!!
I am so glad that their downtime yesterday was due to this and not some "unknown" outage etc. I didn't believe it was an outage since the Beta testers got a survey and one of the questions was whether we believed it was ready for prime time. I answered yes. For me, while I was a short beta tester at two weeks, it was pretty solid experience.

It is cool to see people respect your privacy as well as in not requesting to be your BBM as well. I only had two people ask for that, most just want to share music. In a few days I managed to acquire about 700 songs.

Hmmmmmmm. "BBM Music is not supported in your region." I am in Virginia, USA.

Australia not yet - still waiting

International launch would be highly appreciated!

I have also beta tested BBM Music and I must say I have been pleased with this app. The access you have to music is great and the social atmosphere is also exciting. By the way being able to listen to my music while turning my network connections off is a plus for me. I can store up to 8gb on my phone chip and listen with or without signal. BB has found a way to get back in the game with this app, need more like it.

Am I doing something wrong? Its asking for a Keycode. What is the keycode?

EDIT: nevermind, had to upgrade to an even newer version. Just waiting for it to be supported in my region (US)

BBM Music would be better if the $4.99 version included access to unlimited tracks online with only 50 song access on mobile. That would take the best of Rdio, Spotify but with a BBM twist. I think they really need to make finding (virality) bbm friends easier through some type of Facebook connect feature and then link this to Facebook music. At that point, BBM becomes your niche social network within your bigger Facebook community.

I do think the $4.99 price tag is compelling in markets around the globe where people have hundreds of BBM friends. This is one of those apps that could definitely utilize the BBX platform to get full advantage of the social network.

What happens to our beta versions? Will they "turn off" soon? Mine is still working as of now. I did get an App World notification to upgrade to a new version though, which I assume would require payment.

p.s. if you don't see the non-beta version yet, try clearing your cache by doing ALT + RST or hold the 123 key until it sticks and do 34) on a torch touch.

May also want to try pulling battery if that doesn't work!

The idea is good, but subscribe??? Are u kidding me? After all the bull sh*t with delayes with devices and service being down, they expect us to pay for this? How about they include this in the so called "free premiums apps" package they're offering?
Absolutely ridiculous!!!

I really like the idea of making music social, but not at the price tag attached. I'm not nearly a heavy enough music listener, and I don't have enough BBM contacts, to justify that.

just downloaded BBM music. 28138E33 is my pin

Damn it, RIM's stock value is under the company value (book value).

I am subscribing to BBM Music right now. Not going doing without giving a fight!

Edit: It doesn't work on the 9900. No RIM, no!!!

Where are you guys finding the PINs to all the people you've added to your BBM Music? I want to download it to start my trail, but not until I know I can build up my BBM Music friends quickly - don't want to be wasting days and days with access to only a couple hundred songs.

If I have a premium subscription, can I listen to the full tracks of BBM Music friends who are only on the free version?

Has failure written all over it. Why don't they focus on making the actual music player in their OS actually work well? The difference between listening to music on an ipod vs blackberry is extremely noticeable. I get nothing but skips, bad quality, unorganized artwork, and poor performance when trying to listen to music on a bb. oh and syncing nightmares too.

the idea is nice of making it social by sharing playlists, but blackberry isnt the platform for it.

All in all, looks like people will be giving this a try. very interesting.way to go RIM.

I am still not clear what happens to us beta users. Do we start all over? Will my tracks get carried over to the free trial? Will I lose all of my friends and their songs too? Do I have to pay for a month upfront to qualify for the 60 days?

Soooooo many questions! :P

This is interesting. A great way to discover music. I wonder if RIM will leverage this later on to launch an iTunes competitor. If I really like a song, I still rather own it.

When I first started in the beta area I was confused as to how I was gonna add contacts. I didnt have any contacts to speak of but once i put my pin out there in the forum the contacts just started raining on me. I love the music selection and the opportunity to connect with others and check out their playlist which i can add any song that they have to my own playlist and build my own music mix right there on my BB. I use my BB at work a lot and where I work we get poor signal but with BBM Music I am able to cache my songs to my chip and play my songs without interruption SWEET!!! Trust me I was a skeptic at first especially with a price attached to it but for what I am able to do I feel its a steal. I haven't had any problems with the service and i have the ole 9670 style. Don't knock it before you try it, I almost did and now Im glad I got onboard. Good luck and have fun with it people.....

not available for SaskTel's 9900 from App World heh. Solves my problem of deciding to subscribe or not.

Can't wait!

My musical tastes run in the jazz/blues direction. I much prefer to listen to albums than individual tracks. During the beta I found no love for my particular dispositions. Maybe Im just a curmudgeon but I'm really not too interested in the tastes of a bunch of strangers. I'll be uninstalling and taking a pass on this money grab app.

Can't wait to get this up and running, updating from .124 to .130 right now.
For me this is a win-win situation ~ Love'n my 9900 and I Love music ~ And at $0.17 a day with a playlist that can potentially grow daily makes it a great deal. Thanks RIM!!!

my friends on Rogers are getting the Beta version in App World and that seems to be the only version available to them, which they can't use. It's not prompting to update. What gives?
The current version should be 1.0.0.130 and they're downloading .124 then being asked for a code. not a great start RIM!

installed this on my BB Torch 9810 flawless via my WiFi connection, configured settings, and been playing around with it...I'm definitely impressed RIM great job...thumbs up!

I wonder if some people were still having issues installing this, even though they lived in any of the 3 supporting Countries, personally, I am from Toronto,ON, Canada.
I hear some people were having issues installing thi, but all you have to do is clear BB App World's cache in your BB phone takes about 10-15secs, then re-try to install it now.