After a month and change, the ad-free ride on Samsung's Milk streaming music service looks to be coming to an end.
Samsung posted a new infographic about its new streaming service, covering usage numbers and the like. Towards the bottom of the post, which appears to have been pulled, the infographic also mentions the service is being split into two new tiers.
The free service is, well, free, but it will be filled with ads.
Users that want to go ad-free, meanwhile, will have to fork over $3.99 (about £2.37,AU$4.27). The infographic doesn't specify exactly when the premium service will go into effect except for noting it will be available soon.
Falling in line
Samsung's Milk service launched just over a month ago without ads but a limited ability to skip over six tunes. It also featured the unique ability to instantly switch between nine different songs from the same number of varying genres.
Samsung all along said the ad-free-only option would be a limited time deal.
Now with the new paid package it still come in for half the price of Spotify subscription while matching Pandora's over $3.99 (about £2.37, AU$ 4.27) subscription fee.
Compared to other music apps, Milk Music still lags behind with only access to 13 million songs and 200 different music stations. Spotify, meanwhile, noted it had 20 million songs available in it's music library on its fifth birthday last October.
It's also by far the most limited as the app only runs on Samsung Galaxy phones in the United States. However, with this new paid package Samsung may expand the service to more Android phones by putting the app on the Google Play Store.
TechRadar has asked Samsung for more details on its Milk Music plans, and we'll update this post when we hear back.
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