OD2 Launches Penny-Per-Song Streaming Jukebox

Posted by timothy on Monday June 14, 2004 @11:42PM from the not-so-good-in-the-car dept.

securitas writes "BBC Technology's Darren Waters reports that UK digital music service OD2 launched its 350,000-song SonicSelector streaming 'digital jukebox' for a penny per song a day ahead of the iTunes Europe debut. The service (co-founded by Peter Gabriel) is available only in 'UK, France, Germany and Italy and will only work with users of Windows Media Player' 9. NewsFactor and The Register have descriptions of the pay-per-use / a la carte service. More at the Financial Times and Reuters via ZDNet UK. You can also read the previous OD2 Slashdot discussion."

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Re:Price isn't bad, but... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-15 00:01 · Score: 4, Funny

Are you telling me there's something Emacs can't do?

I refuse to believe it!
Re:Price isn't bad, but... by Dutch_Cap · 2004-06-15 00:27 · Score: 5, Funny

"there's no drm for streaming, you know ? it streams then it's gone ..."

Yes, because streamed bits are a very special kind of bit. Unlike normal bits they can't be stored to the harddisk.
Re:Price isn't bad, but... by spiny · 2004-06-15 00:35 · Score: 5, Funny

yeah, and in VI it would be so easy :

CTRL-SHIFT-NUMLOCK-~-#-`--[CTRL027], [return] :)

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