AT&T and Music Choice have announced the addition of Music Choice to the AT&T U-verse TV channel line-up through a unique TV application. The Music Choice app adds SWRV, an interactive music network that puts viewers in control by allowing them act as a VJ, creating their own playlists that get voted on by other users. In addition, the Music Choice app allows users to choose from 46 music stations, commercial free.
AT&T’s U-verse TV is currently the only Internet Protocol-based television (IPTV) service offered by a national provider. The service delivers TV apps that allow users to connect their TV, home phone and mobile phone services together. For example, U-verse Mobile lets customers manage recordings, as well as watch TV shows on qualifying smartphones. With AT&Ts YP.COM TV app, users can search for local business information on their U-verse TV screen and send the call to their home or mobile phone via their remote.
AT&T will add Music Choice on Demand later this year, which will offer users the latest videos from leading artists at the user’s discretion
The app you describe would be great if it were what is really there. The app that AT&T has implementated does not have any mechanism to create playlists (at least from the TV app itself) does not provide direct access to a music channel (you have to navigatge thru the app every time), and times out to a screen saver on a fairly short interval (less than an hour), and it will not resume to a music channel after powering off like Uverse does with regular channels.
So if you want to be able to listen to music and see the MusicChoice song/artist info all day at your desk from the Uverse STB, you will greatly disappointed.