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XM Radio Plans Online Music Service

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the joining-the-fray dept.

Grump writes "Diving into the already crowded online music business, XM Radio Online, will launch sometime in early October and operate commercial-free, just as its satellite programming does. XM will charge $7.99 per month for unlimited listening and offer a discount rate of $3.99 to subscribers of its existing radio services."

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  1. Nice attempt... but competitor's already there! by LostCluster · · Score: 5, Interesting

    XM's "add streaming of our music online" for $3.99 sounds like a pretty cool deal when taken alone, but their main competitor Sirius actually includes that feature for free with purchase of the main subscription. They'll even offer a 3-day trial of the streaming service for non-subscribers in the hopes of convinving people to sign up based on that. Of course, Sirius charges $3 a month more than XM for their base subscription.

  2. Um, hello, Sirius is already online for FREE. by MufasaZX · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All Sirius Sat Radio subsribers can listen to all their audio streams online for free (as in beer) for the past several months, how can XM possible claim this type of service is 'new and special' and charge for it???

  3. Is it compatible with mozilla? by Armethius · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The key question for me is whether it is compatible with non-IE browsers. I would love to sign up for Rhapsody, but they are IE only.

  4. When will the first Time Trax for this be out? by dgrgich · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'll bet the RIAA will be looking at this extra-crispy close . . . after that whole XMPCR deal turned into an MP3 factory program.