Microsoft has announced that its Spotify-style music service, Xbox Music, will launch on Xbox 360 tomorrow, while Windows 8 PCs and tablets will get the same service on the previously rumored date of October 26.
The service will be available via an Xbox Music Pass subscription, which, like its Zune Pass predecessor, you can purchase for $9.99 per month or $99 per year.
Windows 8 PC and tablet owners will be treated with six months of unlimited, uninterrupted free streaming of tracks. Once those six months are up, an Xbox Music Pass will need to be purchased in order to both enjoy that ad-free luxury, and to store tracks for offline enjoyment.
The Xbox LIVE version of the service, meanwhile, gets no such treatment, and cannot run tracks in the background, as the PC/tablet versions will.
The service, which will launch with 18 million tracks in the U.S., will also be available at a later date for Windows 8 phones and “other platforms.” Anyone interested in Xbox Music can see if they’d like it for themselves with a completely free 30-day trial.