The sun is finally setting on Samsung's Milk Music service

Samsung is shutting down its music streaming service, Milk Music. Samsung updated the description for the Android App, which now reads “The Samsung Milk Music app will no longer be supported, as of September 22, 2016.” Milk Music was available only in the United States, and only on select Samsung Galaxy devices. Supported devices include tablets, mobile phones, televisions and smartwatches. Milk Music was launched in March 2014. The service was based on Slacker radio, and offered over two hundred curated radio stations. Genres of music were presented in a dial, with sliders for tweaking the number of popular, favorite and new tracks in the mix, allowing users to “tune in” to a custom radio station. The service was available for free on Samsung Galaxy devices, but there was a premium subscription available for $3.99 (around Rs 268) per month. This allowed for offline caching of songs, uninterrupted playback without advertisements, a feature to toggle DJ commentary and the ability to skip an unlimited number of tracks. Samsung is redirecting current users to the Slacker app. The shutdown follows a strategic decision by Samsung to partner with content providers to seamlessly integrate multiple music streaming service providers in the Samsung Galaxy devices. There are no additional details available at this time, but this hints that Samsung may have alternative services planned for delivering music to the Galaxy range of devices.