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guido_sst writes: "SprintPCS has inked a new deal with *CD to allow its users to buy CDs with their PCS phones. Basically, you hear a song on the radio, dial *CD (*23) on your PCS phone, type in the station's call letter and your credit card number, and viola, you just bought that band's CD. The service is also available for wireless members of the 3Com Palm family. Read more at starcd.com."
Maybe in the next 6 months i'll be able to order PCS service through my discman.
I am !amused.
I am wondering how they will figure out which song you were listening to, when using the service. Most radio stations I know about can not even seem recall their play lists from the past five minutes... then add on the problem of which cd - the single? the album? the muchmusic compilation? the japanesse import? the movie sound track? on top of it all, add in the problems with timing - I meant to get song x, but I was too slow and got song y instead... I really have a hard time seeing how this will work on the old analogue radio.
It'd be even cooler, if you didn't need to enter a credit card number. You could just dial the number, and automatically have it put on your PCS phone bill, and have it sent to your mailing address.
... can I borrow your phone to call a friend...
Man this song on the radio is awful...
How? It's happened to me, and I'd love to get my pound of flesh out of the bastards.
I'd like they put the charges on my cell phone bill directly.
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WAP and the things it makes possile may be a cool service, but I'd rather download the .mp3s and preview the entire disc wirelessly before buying it.
I use a Ricochet 128kbps wireless modem to connect to Napster and download music. I just pulled down an 8MB file in a few minutes, wirelessly, listened to it, and decided that the album wasn't for me.
Go ahead and use this impulse-buying tool if you want, but Ricochet is a lot more useful for those of us who don't wish to spend money indiscriminately every time the record companies say boo.
It used to be that the big music companies got all the radio time. Now they get to have direct sales from their radio times. A better example of corporations being able to contrl the opinions of the populace, I have not heard.
This means that the corporations get to pick what sheeple like, while those of use that are self-thinking MUST relly on shoutcast or other similar non-mainstream systems to be able to pick music on our own.
Let's just say this is one system I won't be using.
t14m4t
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This has been around for european ppl with wap-access for quite some time now. It's called WeeZap, or something (created by FramFab), and does pretty much the same, only better. Once the next step of GSM is made avalible (no, not UTMS but GPRS) this will be a much smother, and cheaper, sollution.
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A non-embarassing way to order "Who let the dogs out" without haveing to know the name of the band or the name of the album.
Jackpot.
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But aren't bots banned on Napster? :-)
I tried it out last Tuesday. I ordered (I thought) Al Gore's "Macarena", but somehow got a Pat Buchanan single of "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" instead.
This has been around for european ppl with wap-access for quite some time now. It's called WeeZap, or something (created by FramFab), and does pretty much the same, only better.
I guess Europe is indeed better than America.
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And what do you want to bet that their database is chock full of Backstreet/Nsync/Britney-alikes and won't have anything that the local college station plays?
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
Yeah it sounds great and all, but what if you press the final "Buy" button a second too late?
I have a feeling that you'll see a 10,000% increase in the sales of the new "Annoying Local Car Dealership Radio Ads Volume 3" cd...
(yes, it's sarcasm, no need to point out that it probably reads the title back to you first, smartguy!)
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I could see a lot of impulse britney spears buying...
Amazon.
AIM.
And thats just the beginning, now that I can punch in a stations call letters, (like i'm going to remember what they are) and order a CD, my bill is going to get quite a bit bigger, just the fact that you can be on I-20 and AIM at the same time is disturbing.
What, me worry?
Another impending sign of the Apocalypse... Britney Spears CDs on speed dial....
Part of me wishes to be abducted by aliens and taken off this godforsaken rock of a planet... then I remember that 99.9% of the time they get their abductees from places like Pig Jowl, Arkansas.
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i'm buying 'can' on my phone! oh shit i just bought air supply!
I hope they don't make it too easy to order.
Imagine sitting in a meeting, when your phone starts playing a Brittney Spears song, and in your frantic attempts to make it stop, you accidentally order 10 copies...
I'm pretty sure that's a scene from Dante's Inferno...
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You try to punch in all that while driving, and you're going to crash your car. Maybe your friends will slip the new CD into your coffin.
Corporate America has been trying for ages this experiment where they see just how far they can push you before you snap. Are our jobs any different?
Whether you are working for the company, or you are 'consuming' their products, you are simply a part of the grand experiment. "How much can we fuck with them before they just completely lose it?" seems to be the most important question in the business world today. Sometimes they are unlucky and someone does lose it (the government, i.e. post offices, seems to be the worst at this), but it is suprising just how good businesses are getting at walking that thin line between sanity and insanity. Of course, a lot of that can be attributed to the fact that the businesses in question make the laws in this country (let's face it, 'the people' haven't been in charge for a long, long time) and can adjust what 'seems' to be proper behavior over time. Sad, but true.
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Next time, on Geraldo...
This is made for impulse buyers. I can some ex-girlfriends of mine using this service. "I loooove that song let me order the CD"
What *I* want is a way to buy a cell phone by using my CD player.
I'm wondering how long it takes to see our car stero come with a button marked BUY, so when you hear a song you like, it will do it auto-magically. (I would say one-touch-cdpurchacing, but we all know how quickly the patent police would strip search me with a cactus.)
even better :P radios that charge you .10 (taken from your bank account .. with wireless tech.) for every song the radio plays ..
I just got a Great idea! Lets take some music, and engrave it onto a semi-flexable surface about 12" around, preferabally made of plastic for durability. We could play it back using a needle to read the grooves! The nostalgic hippies would EAT IT UP !
i'm not sure i need yet ANOTHER excuse to never leave my house .. hell .. last week I blinked and it was thursday!
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Strategy: buy cds from ARTISTS, not money grubbing mtv whores :)
Strategy: download mp3's of money grubbing mtv whores if you REALLY need to hear their music.
My feeling is that what music companies are really afraid of with mp3 is, consumers finding out exactly how awful an album is BEFORE we've dropped 20$ for it.
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How long before some enterprising hacker figures out how to use starcd.com to look up live playlists and then queue up the song for downloading via Napster? It's a shame that this would be of questionable legality because otherwise this would be perfect. Even curmudgeons like me sometimes like a catchy pop tune now and again but I don't want the other 12 crappy songs on the band's CD.
I'm not paying per song download on Napster unless I get a $0.10 per song upload CREDIT.
At least the * makes sense here, since it's referring to something you'd dial on a cell phone.
Kind of like *BAM (for Bell Atlantic, now Verizon, customer service) and some other * services that I can't remember specifically.
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I think it's rather closed-minded to expect the target market of this service to be only geeks. 'Regular' consumers are used to dialing *[anything] for various services from traffic emergencies, to weather info, to call forwarding.
I suspect that the general target market for this service is the market who currently already buys the most radio-played CDs, and with the most disposable income. Teens, and 20-30 yr. olds.
When will you people ever learn French clichés correctly?
"Ancillary does not mean you get to rule the world." --U.S. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, speaking to the FCC's lawyer
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I work for a group of radio stations. Our streaming audio provider wanted to do a "now playing" thingy on our station's web site, but the only way they could do it required that I attach our audio server computer directly to the internet. Needless to say, I declined.
I hope Sprint has at least figured out how to run it through a firewall...
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You hear one song, you like it, you punch keys on your phone and before you know it you have whole CD - probably full of songs you don't like (they allways play the best song on the radio, don't they?). That's a great deal indeed.
Sorry, your pirated music isn't worth any money legally. However, paying $0.10 to download a song from, say, BMG's library isn't too bad. You could otherwise try your luck at downloading it for free from someone else's library.
Fact of the matter is, I wouldn't mind a micropayment for one song provided that it transfers at an actually decent rate. Napster kiddies on upload-capped cable modems and DSL lines can't match that. Not even your average college MP3-monger can top that, if he/she's serving ten people at once.
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Of course not, plastic will rule the world, a simple solution like pcs.e-gold.com (oops, I mentioned it) just can't be found! We have to trust Sony and the giant corps instead!
Ok, so I'm sarcastic today.
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Not quite. Raped would be violé (violée for women).
A viola is a musical instrument, a little larger than a violin
At least these are better than the average "your argument has no absolutely merit because you misspelled a word" post :)
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Inform them that it is a cellular line, and ask for the operator's name. If he refuses to give it, thats an automatic fine. Then, ask for the company's name, address, and telephone number. If they dont give it up, just ask for a log from your cellular operator. Send the FCC a letter, telling them you would like compensation for the abuse, and if the company refuses to give it, they get a big fat $50k fine in the mail.
Or you dial 1-800-777-BUZZ and do the same.
I see a FuckedCompany in the making.
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You are a fucking moron.
I still think I would see people downloadig the one song they want instead of paying 17 bucks for an entire cd. I also see the birth of a lot of acidents if people decide to use this. JUST pulling out the credit card *crash* .
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It was Cellular One. I participated in the beta test for them. I only bought one CD (whuch they gave me for free for testing). The service really sucked. It took about 5 mins to complete the order, and the process was quite cumbersome. VERY dangerous if you were driving. And worst of all, after the beta period, they were going to charge AIRTIME for the call! Plus, the CD was $22 from them ($14 at local store, $11 online). Buyer beware.
-mark
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What if the DJ doesn't name the artist and song title?
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I've got two to sell. Off topic, yes and no. This *CD deal is not enough to keep me with Sprint PCS service. They cannot provide me a good signal in my house, effectively making the cell phone useless for Long Distance calling from my residence or even answering pages. AT&Greed's mobile services will reach even my wee little hovel in the basement of a huge brick house. Sprint can't do that. Anyone in a SprintPCS city who lives on an above ground floor want a cell phone?
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Wow. live playlists. -- from real radio stations too.
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Why do you need to use a credit card? Why not just bill it to your Sprint PCS account. Maybe instead of entering your credit card, you enter a password.
yes, there's a karma cap. Refer to the whole signal 11 or shoeboy or whoever melodrama a while back.
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I think maybe someone has finally realized why people prefer Napster and MP3's to going out and purchasing CDs: it's not money, it's convenience. It's much easier to hop online, search for something, and download it, than it is to go hunt down the physical goods at your local store.
I'm not sure that this is easier, at least not yet. But perhaps it's a step in the right direction.
That was his point. The content on a single cd does not rate paying $18 for it. Nice job understanding what he wrote.
Ass.
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Now THAT would be cool.
According to the FAQ there is nothing for the station to do. A device monitors the station and uses some sort of "music recognition" software to compare it against their database.
Pretty amazing...
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according to their FAQ, a device samples the music and compares it to a database of "masters" obtained from the record companies.
I guess it's "music recognition". Music fingerprinting... interesting...
Robert
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I wonder how much I can squat asteriskcd.com and asterisk-cd.com, considering I just bought them.
By the way, anybody else use dirt-cheap <a href="http://joker.com">joker.com</a> for buying domain names? I do, and every time the Euro falls, I laugh, because it makes my domain names cheaper (always 12 Euros per DN, now that's like $10 and falling)
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Hey! Why do you have to be rippin' on Barry Manilow? Just for that, I'm going to use company bandwidth & Napster so I can be listening to some Manilow at work! ppphhhhhthhhhh!!
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Radio geeks, such as myself, are an old breed that's as geeky, or geekier, than the rest of you.
Sure, shortwave DXing is the most common, but we've all dabbled with medium-wave DXing and FM broadcast band DXing as well.
Perhaps you're saying that not many of us listen to the broadcast bands of the radio for music, and that's only slightly true.. but, don't forget, radio listening encompasses a lot more than listening to your car radio on the way to work.
-bugg
This seems like a nice little concept, but here's something for you paranoid cypherpunks out there. Let's say you actually buy that stupid "Who let the dogs out" cd with this service, what do you think will happen when their next album comes out, or any similar band, or any band whose promoter sucked off the radio station's manager ? In ordering the cd, you've given them your name, address, but most importantly your *cell phone number!* Now they can call you anwhere, anytime to tele-harass you. They will manage to annoy you at the worst possible time (imagine being in a meeting and you answer your cell thinking it's important, only to end up stuck arguing with a stupid telemarketer who just won't give up - watch your executive reputation go through the basement). If you really want to buy whatever top40 crap's playing on the radio, just listen to the announcer when he/she says the title and group and stop by the mall to buy it. Cheaper, safer, and anonymous. Just tell them your personal info is none of their fucking business and they don't need it to sell you the damned cd. Something you just can't do on the phone when shipping is involved.
-Billco, Fnarg.com
It's a little broader.... the FAQ says it gets the masters from the large record companies.
My guess it's anything the major records companies produce ( and the site trys to sell ).
Give them a break... the technology sounds pretty amazing, but there are limits. How do you expect them to recognize the college garage band? ( and why would they want to, since they are trying to sell records.)
I bet they would be willing to accept a MP3 of the garage band to put in their database.
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Using a cell while driving is illegal now in quite a few US states
Only if you define 0 as quite a few.
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Why, I wonder, is Quicktime loading the png in your sig. I am so fucking sick of the fuckwit companies stealing extensions just so that their stupid plug-in gets a bit of fucking airtime. And why the fuck can't I list plug-ins by extension rather than some assholes conception of how they should be described. Fuck Fuck fuck fuck fuck. F.u.c.k. And why do they insist on installing icons in the fucking windoze system tray? Burn in hell assholes.
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That's funny. I'm a geek. I listen to the radio. Quite extensively, in fact. Any time I'm in the car, I have the radio on. It sounds better than MP3 and it's less expensive than CD. Oh, and you get a little bit more variety than any changer will give you. As much as I love listening to Dark Side of the Moon every day, it's nice to hear stuff from other artists once in a while -- it keeps things interesting, lets you try out new stuff, and reminds you of stuff you haven't listened to in ages (since you forgot to add it to your collection the last time through).
Plus, I don't want to spend a couple hundred on fancy speakers for my computer -- it's a computer, not a stereo. And, since I *am* a geek, I've spent my money on my computer... not home entertainment equipment. So music is in the car and on the radio, the way it was meant to be.
And now I'll be able to find out who the heck is playing that long lyric-less Steve Vai/Eddie Van Halen-esque piece that's weaseled its way onto the play list!
-Chris
PS. Why the heck did moderators make that whiney little post a 4? POWER TO THE PEOPLE WHO PUNISH BAD MODERATION!
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Tom Leykis is a syndicated guy out of LA. He isn't bad, but he is mostly a Stern ripoff. He did "innovate" the 405 flash, meaning you flash your headlights while on the 405 and women in other cars are supposed to flash their tits at you. As if the traffic on the 405 isn't fucken horrible enough.
I'm not impressed, but I'll admit that it's a damn sight better than one of the other ideas that I've heard about: walk too close to a store, and it auto-dials you to relay a recorded spiel. I swear, if that ever happens to me, I'll happily walk into the store, and explain quite thoroughly why they've permanently lost my business. Gods help 'em if they suggest that I turn my phone off...
Five tons of flax.
*CD uses a patented computer technology to monitor radio broadcasts and identify songs as they air.
Before new music is released, a master recording is obtained from the record companies and scanned into the system's computer -- creating a unique digital fingerprint or "pattern" for that song.
*CD's computers monitor local radio stations every second of the day, every day of the week -- processing the digitized broadcast and comparing it with thousands and thousands of patterns.
Once a song is recognized, the system records the exact time, date, and station on which it played.
You can access this information by calling *CD-the call for music.
I say they're more likely to just use the service to find out the song name/artist and then disconnect the call and stop at their local store to buy it.
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I know exactly how Star CD is pronounced. The * is still an asterisk. Call it what you like, that's what the character is called.
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Except mp3.com already tried that, and got slapped. I bought some discs from Cheap-cds.com on the premise that I would be able to listen to them immediately on my.mp3.com, even before they arrived. And I could, for a couple of weeks; it was neat. And of course I'd already payed for the music. Of course, the RIAA paid no mind to this really neat, non-money-losing idea when they had all the major-label content shut off.
I think mainstream DJs that play their own selections went out in the 70's.
On second thought I take that back, I think then they had payola. But back in those days, it was illegal.
Hit *CD (*23) on your PCS phone, type in the station's call letter, get the name of the band and song, and then ... hang up.
Start up napster, type in the name of the band and song, and download the mp3 :)
Alrighty. Now if there was anything worth listening to on the radio, I'd be ready to go!
I'd rather wait a few days to get the merchandise and save myself the trip down to whatever store sells it. Even though I live in a very large city (i.e. I can get almost everything locally), I buy a lot of stuff online for the convenience factor. Order it, forget about it, and have a nice surprise in the mail after a week or so. This service fits right in with my purchasing habits. Too bad I don't listen to music on the radio...
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can't wait until someone steals my phone...
wonder if they've thought of the implications.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Could this move to a per song purchase, downloaded at your convience? The song information would be e-mailed to you, and you could get the song later from Napster, with your .10 fee (example). For those of us who like single songs...
I think this is a fantastic idea. Combine it with only charging $5 for a cd, and I would probably own all the music I listen to.
I mean really, is $18 worth one cd?? Half the cd's I have now I only listen to 3 tracks, that was back when I listened to my cd's. But seriously I get ideas for what music to download off of the radio. This would increase sells dramatically I would imagine.
Another reason to stay off the road....SUV DRIVER: "Oh MAN! Carribean Queen by Billy Ocean! I love this song, I gotta get it! Let's see... B-I-L-L... Oops, cut that guy off, sorry... Y.. O-C-E *SCREEEEEECH* SHIIIIIIT! *BOOM*Sharkey
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Nice to see someone doing something interesting with wireless
I'll be listening to a college station or something, try to order a phone, and voila!
Station not available.
Of course, when I do listen to the radio, all I really listen to is talk radio, and I haven't heard about a Tom Leykis CD coming out anytime soon.
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but you just heard it on the radio. you don't want to hear it again, do you? besides, if you think radio sounds crappy, imagine how bad a song would sound on your cell phone.
How many people are going to use this service to make it a viable alternative to in-store sales? You hear the song, you hear the DJ name the artist and song title, you go to a record store and buy it new or used (preferably). That's it - same day. Or in my case, you hear it, get the name and download it off Napster with no intention of ever buying the CD, even if it's your favorite artist and you think he deserves the money.
The yuppie children demographic -- the ones with cel phones and without bills to pay -- is getting larger every minute. Seems like a good one to target to me. Teenagers these days spend a disporportante ammount of their incomes, making them a significant consumer class. Odds are they're the major target audience for this scheme.
I'm gonna make a napster clone for my phone and call it wapster. -I'm such a dork
Quicktime opening a .png that should load in any recent browser without using ANY plugin??? That's fucked up, indeed. As for the link in my .sig, I just got sick of fuckwits telling me my .sig was "wrong." Of course, the obvious solution to your problem is to download a .png to a local file, then SHIFT+RIGHT CLICK, choose "Open With," then make sure the "Always" check box is checked, then select your browser as the default viewer for .png files. Can't remember what the "Always" button said exactly since I no longer have a Win box in the house, although I could check at work. But I'm sure you can find what I'm referring to with no difficulty. :)
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They probably offer big deals, since usage is what they really want. Think about it. The big win here is that they're turning into a demographic database of what people listen to on the radio. They can then turn around and:
* Sell info to the stations on *when* people listen.
* Sell info to the labels on what radio stations sell the most CDs
Oh yeah, this is a great business model for them. For the consumer, it's only a lose becuase it's one more thing feeding the cycle that's homogenizing entertainment "content" down to a gruel that doesn't offend anyone "much".
Oh great, now when my cell phone is on and I accidentally hit a few buttons I'll have to explain to my wife where all the ups packages came from. I knew "automatic buying" was coming. Now it's here. I think it sucks.
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I prefer to listen to a variety of music (my choice of music) rather than what some radio company is being paid or otherwise compensated to over-expose to its audience.
I'll listen to a few good streaming radio stations online though -- but they don't broadcast on the airwaves anyway.
If it turns out that this service offers a larger variety of music (not just the stations that play the Top40) then they might have a chance at something successful. But I'm not going to hold my breath.
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Hey, on another note -- anyone notice that after your karma gets to a certain point, positive moderations of posts no longer increase your karma?
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What I'm curious about is, what happens if you dial the code to order a CD but a different song has already started playing.
Do you get the wrong CD or do you get some sort of confirmation?
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You can simply free up your hands and your attention with a head set system. That gets around the problem of actually using the cell phone and should please many people. Or get a speaker phone and have it broadcast in the car.
Personally I think that they want people to have more of a chance of spending foolishly and without regard to what they are getting themselves into.
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I got a SprintPCS phone a few months ago, and it had Amazon as a wireless web link. You could use your 1click profile to make purchases easily. This was the first truly useful instance of 1click for me.
Buy a CD because of one catchy tune on the radio? This is obviously targetted at rich kids without bills to pay.
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I hate replying to a troll like you, but my .sig is taken verbatim from the BSD text games package that come with my Slackware Linux. Perhaps you should take your petty little nit-picking up with the maintainers of the BSD fortune program. Fucking shithead.
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How about I hear a song on the radio, dial up some special number, and it instructs my PC to download the song from Napster?
if you could have the mp3 placed in an idrive for you or something. that would be a viable mp3 biz model.
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Pretty cool. You enter in the number of the station; for example, "961#" is 96Rock in Atlanta. Then you can hit 1 to hear what was most recently played or you key in the time of the song. You can preview the song first so you don't accidentically buy Barry Manilow.
You can hear samples of other songs on the CD too. Not bad.
-tim
I guess on the "Hey, neat idea!" scale, it rates a couple points. But on the "How many people will use it?" scale, I think it's pretty much DOA.
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Actually, this service was tested in Philadelphia about a year ago. I'm not too sure which cell company sponsored it (Bell, AT&T, etc), but they were promoting the hell out of it on the radio. The only problem was that in order to use the *xy service, you had to be a member of their service. IE, an AT&T wireless customer couldn't use it if Bell sponsored the *xy service.
If I recall correctly, it disappeared due to lack of funds..*Shrugs*
-kris
This is one of the most retarded things I've heard of recently - what makes anyone think that the order will be registered while that same song is still playing on the radio? The average joe-user is going to do this, get the CD for whatever band was on AFTER the song they liked, and get pissed off.
Will this "corporate cuteness" never end? Why don't they just put flowers all around their name and force you to type it as "**CD**"?
"Ancillary does not mean you get to rule the world." --U.S. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, speaking to the FCC's lawyer
All it takes is one moderator on crack to fuck up a potentially good system.
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It's obvious that most bashers have bother to try it. It's been around in Philly for a while. It's great that it's national. There is security via a PIN. The prices are competative and I don't have to lug my fat ass into a store. It's total convenience and better yet it works. If the station you listen to isn't in the list, send an email. I have. I'm sure this application will hit televison, print etc. I already own a WAP phone so why would I use a POS like Sony's Emarket. Besides, it sucks. I dig it and it's one of the few cool apps that actually works.
In analyzing any new business opportunity - or any new feature in a current product - the question I always ask myself is "What problem does this solve???"
I don't know. I've never been overcome with the urge to do anything with my cell phone except talk to other people - preferably while I'm not driving a vehicle. The cell phone is a shitty order entry device, its not good for reading email. Hell, if your on SprintPCS like me, its barely passable for use as a damn telephone.
I see this dying a very quick death to be forever immortalized on fuckedcompany.com If they get to an IPO - I'll be shorting from day 1!
http://pcs.e-gold.com/demo.html
/. users try e-gold here, just email me an account number) but so far, nobody has done anything much. Oh well.
It's been out there since Xmas, the media ignored it. It works using the currency I sell, and I'd very much like to see musicians and fans be able to "cut out the middleman," and it seems like I sell the technology to do so every day (standing offer to let
JMR
Try e-gold - (contact me). I'm NOT e-
Just what I needed. An easier way to blow fifteen bucks or more on an overpriced CD with one good song and nine bad ones on it. Of the last four times I've bought a CD based on one song, I've come away extremely disappointed three of those times. Next time, I'll use Napster. Not to steal the song, but to preview the whole album before I buy it. What if I only like that one song? Here's a hint to the music industry: SELL ME A SINGLE!
-----Chaz
What if you hear 2 different songs by the same band in the same day and order it twice by accident? And also, how will it work with indie bands? The indie bands are the ones I would buy the most.
Um so instead of people just talking on cell phones when they are driving, we can introduce a way to enter a bunch of crypt numbers into their keypads while trying not to kill someone.
Let's just put a unix terminal in their cars, have the command line in a forgein launage, with an mis configured key board and see if we can raise the death toll a little more.
Better let, lets require them to do complex math and logic problems while trying to keep the car above 55 mphs.
Seriously, how "Jacked-In" do we really need to be? This is cool and all, but between my cell phone, pager, mp3 player, cd changer and 6 lanes of packed traffic in heavey rain doing 65 MPH trying no to spill hot coffee on my croch, my conceration is starting to wander of off "Don't hit that guy dressed in dark clothes on the ten speed riding in the middle of the fscking high way". Seriously is this some type of experiment to see how much stress an person can take before snapping and crashing their car causing a 20 car pile up?
"`Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.'" -THHGTTG
Sony has a similiar product called the Emarker, its a keychain fob that allows you to "bookmark a song on the radio" so you can look it up later (and presumably buy them from a sony retailer. Even has a docking station
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