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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Meanwhile... by Andy+Smith · 2004-06-15 00:03 · Score: 1, Troll

iTunes launches in the UK.

Great! Where can I sign-up?!

But the only portable device it supports is the iPod.

Oh well, I guess I'll stick to burning CDs.

Seems that the only way I can play music from iTunes on my MuVo is to burn a CD and then rip the CD, which is a bit more hassle than I'm willing to go to. So I'll pay a few pounds more, get the CD with the nice packaging, track listing, lyrics, etc, the eeeevil record companies will have more of my money and Apple will have none.

Apple wants to limit my use of their service so I'll limit it myself -- to zero.