Sony’s Music Pro timetable set October 27 as its final service end

Sony’s [Music Pro retirement notice](https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00378872) set October 27, 2026 as the date for all services to end, following earlier stages in July and August. That final scheduled date has now passed. The support notice was last modified on April 27; this is a previously announced service milestone, rather than a new October closure announcement. The notice also said Music Pro would no longer be available to download from the App Store and Google Play. It provides Sony’s retirement timetable, rather than a device‑by‑device account of what installed copies can now do.

Sony’s published 2026 schedule separates three stages:

• July 27: new and recurring services end.
• August 26: paid service features end.
• October 27: all services end.

The distinction matters for interpreting Music Pro’s AI features. Sony’s Xperia help guide describes Studio tuning as cloud AI processing for recorded tracks and says charges apply to those functions. Its older audio‑feature page separately labels recording and editing as free of charge and Studio tuning as subscription‑only.

Those historical descriptions explain the feature tiers; they do not establish current availability. October 27 was the final all‑services date in Sony’s schedule, while the paid‑feature stage was already assigned to August 26. A “free of charge” label on an older product page is not evidence that recording or editing remains available after retirement.

The [help guide](https://helpguide.sony.net/mobile/xperia‑1m5/v1/en/contents/music_pro.html) describes using AI audio separation to split sources such as vocals and instruments into individual tracks, along with noise reduction, reverb reduction and microphone or studio simulation. Recording takes, choosing parts from them and using paid cloud processing were different parts of the Music Pro workflow. That separation is useful when reading the shutdown schedule: the end of paid features and the final end of all services are different milestones. Sony’s older descriptions of sound quality are product claims, not evidence that the service is still operating or an independent test of its results.

Sony’s retirement notice recommended exporting audio or video data from projects before October 27, 2026. It then instructed customers to uninstall the application after exporting, in accordance with the Music Pro End User License Agreement. That was pre‑deadline guidance, not a newly supplied recovery procedure.

The notice does not explain how to recover unexported work after the final date. It also does not establish whether a particular local project has been deleted, remains readable or can still be exported. Those outcomes cannot be determined from the published timetable alone.

Sony Xperia 1 IV, photographed on August 23, 2022. Archive device context, not a Music Pro screenshot or evidence of current service operation. Photo: Müllowitsch, via Wikimedia Commons. Orientation normalized and photograph resized with neutral margins; this prepared image remains licensed under CC BY‑SA 4.0.