Full Track Downloads on Mobiles
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The service will be first available on Spanish network provider Telefonica. Melodeo provides music to wireless subscribers through a mobilemusic solution that resides on the wireless phone.
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Amazon: "Many of our customers have already discovered that one cheap way to get DRM-free MP3s is to buy them on CD and rip them themselves." Here's a screen shot. It's common-sense advice, but still somewhat remarkable that they're addressing the issue of DRM right there on the home page. It could be that I'm seeing it and you're not (possibly because I just bought a Linux hand-held computer from Nokia). It's hard to tell.  Here's their guide to ripping CDs.
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MusicNet, the company that powers the song libraries of Yahoo! Music Unlimited and URGE, said Tuesday that it will make available over 1 million tracks in MP3 format without digital rights management. The move follows Apple offering DRM-free songs in its own AAC format through iTunes.
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Swedes are the first to try a music service for mobiles that lets them download unlimited tracks for a weekly fee.
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Also: Yahoo: DRM-free music by year's end. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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InfoWorld - U.S. software company Beatnik is approaching mobile phone operators with a new&#160;music download&#160;system that compresses songs up to 10 times more than the MP3 format, allowing for faster downloads on lower-end mobile phones equipped with the company&#39;s software.
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(InfoWorld) - Even before Apple's much anticipatedÂ iPhone hits the shelves later this month, users of many different kinds of phones can listen to their iTunes music, via a new service from Seattle company Melodeo. Anyone can use the beta version of NuTsie, launched on Tuesday, by signing up and then exporting their iTunes playlists to NuTsie. Users don't actually upload their music files, only the metadata of the files which identifies the songs. After receiving an application via text message to their phones, they can start listening to their playlists. On the backend, Melodeo is assembling a library of music so it can stream the songs to users. When a user chooses to listen to music from their playlist, Melodeo streams it from its own library. The company adheres to "radio rules," the same guidelines that govern how broadcast radio and online stations play music and then pay artists and record companies for the right to play the songs. Because Melodeo follows radio rules, NuTsie has a few quirks. For instance, users can't pick individual songs from their libraries, they can only listen to their playlists. Also, playlists don't play in the order that the user made them -- NuTsie shuffles the order. If a user's playlist includes a full album, Melodeo must insert random songs into its playback in order to comply with the rules. For now, NuTsie supports 15 phones, although the Java application may work on other phones. Melodeo is developing a Brew version and a Windows Mobile client. Most users will want to subscribe to an unlimited data plan from their mobile operator before using the service, otherwise the cost to stream the music could be high. Melodeo is recommending that users have third generation service, even though the stream uses just 24Kbps, in order to get a high quality service, said Dave Dederer, vice president of music content at Melodeo. So far, Melodeo has a library of 500,000 songs, and is adding around 10,000 songs every couple days, he said. That means that some songs users might have from iTunes, which has a library 5 million strong, might not play. The service shouldn't anger Apple and that wasn't Melodeo's intent, Dederer said. "People have invested time and energy into their libraries and we're trying to embrace and extend that universe," he said. "It's an extension of the value you're already getting out of the iTunes universe." There's another plus to the service. "We monetize music that's illegally stored in an iTunes library," said Dederer, who is himself a songwriter, record label owner and member of the band The Presidents of the United States of America. That's because when NuTsie streams a song from a playlist that a user may have illegally downloaded, Melodeo pays the artist and record company for streaming the song. Melodeo hopes to launch NuTsie commercially in six to eight weeks and hopes to also soon launch with a carrier partner that could decide to offer a subscription to the service. The company hasn't yet decided how to charge for the service. It could offer it via a monthly subscription or with a one time fee for downloading the application. Melodeo is also looking into visual and audio advertising so that users could access it for free, Dederer said.
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You're at a dance club or shopping mall when you hear a great new song. So you pull out your cellphone, press a few keys, hold it up to the speakers, then press a few more keys. Now a digital recording of the song is on its way to your home computer, with the 99-cent charge added to your phone ...
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Starting today, you can enter the new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store; wirelessly browse, search, preview, purchase, and download songs or albums to your iPhone or iPod touch; then immediately listen to your new music after it downloads. Once you get back to your Mac or PC, iTunes automatically recognizes the new music and syncs it with your existing library. iTunes will even complete the download of any partially downloaded songs or albums.
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Want to hear music from your iTunes library on your cellphone? No, not that cellphone. A Seattle-based company called Melodeo is betting that people will want to use their existing cellphones - not the upcoming Apple iPhone - to stream high-fidelity songs from iTunes playlists, without connecting to a computer or downloading music.
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By David Crow  Browsing the internet on a mobile phone can be frustrating. Cramped screens, tiny keypads and slow download speeds do not lend themselves to the rich multimedia experience offered by Web 2.0.
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Ties-up Virgin deal Carphone Warehouse is offering a music download service as an adjunct to its MyMobileLife website.â¦
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Blog: EMI is now offering DRM-less downloads for iTunes and several Windows Media Audio-based stores. But for real portability, only MP3s will do.
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Arts & entertainment: US government looks into record labels' proposals to offer unlimited music for mobile devices for a flat fee
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Devices from AOL, iRiver, and Sandisk will let you acquire tunes without a PC.
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Accordo con Microsoft per musica su cellulare
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This music playback app is only available as a "developer's preview," but it already offers excellent features for grabbing music from MP3 blogs and other web-based music forms. In Listening Post. <img src=" http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/music/xml.gif