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AOL Making Media Player, Music Store

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the everybody's-doin'-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "BetaNews is reporting that AOL Music is ramping up its efforts to release a new Media Player independent of the AOL client software, with a long-term goal of building its own music store. The company plans to bring AMP outside its "walled garden.""

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  1. Errr... by Realistic_Dragon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not cut out the middle man and just mail you CDs with music on them?

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  2. Ask me if I care? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No.

    I don't.

  3. It's nice to see AOL... by Anita+Coney · · Score: 5, Funny

    On the forefront of new technology and not just jumping on someone else's bandwagon.

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  4. Just what I need... by phaln · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...promises of 1048 free hours of Yanni in my mailbox, encased in a tin, sent to me every other week.

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  5. There's no market for that! by Tackhead · · Score: 3, Funny
    > Why not cut out the middle man and just mail you CDs with music on them?

    Because every CD in the known universe has already had a free AOL account burned into it.

    Besides, who the hell's crazy enough to employ a business model based on distributing lossless copies of non-DRM-hobbled music files on 650-megabyte removable media? :)

  6. Zzz zzzz zzzzz zz.... by HarveyBirdman · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz- huh? Wha?

    (blinks)

    Um... AOL... music service...

    Zzzzzzzzz.......

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  7. Go AOL! by GillBates0 · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'm sure the AOL MusicStore (TM) will change our lives for the better, as AOL's Internet (TM) did. They will surely give iTunes a run for their money with their groundbreaking TopSpeed (TM) technology and their superior Internet. I sure hope they include my favorite Super Buddy (TM) technology and their priceless CD offers in their store, though.

    I, for one, do want a better Internet with cool technologies like automatic Email virus protection, *free* web popup blocking, full parental controls, and *free* SuperBuddy(TM) icons and am sure all of you do too! Yay AOL!

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  8. Re:Winamp by afd8856 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now you lost your change. You should have made a business plan from it.

    1. Buy products
    2. Fire programmers
    3. Open source it
    4. Programmers build the best product on the market
    5. ???
    6. Profit!

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  9. No, no, no... by abb3w · · Score: 2, Funny

    The obvious name for what AOL ultimately intends to go up against iTunes would be "meTu-nes".

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  10. This News just in... by GeneralEmergency · · Score: 1, Funny



    NullSoft founder and WinAMP creator Justin Frankel was rushed to the hospital today and treated for unspecified abdominal injuries incurred during a prolonged fit of laughter.

    Stay tuned for more on this story as it becomes available.

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  11. Re:Demographic? by rwjazz39 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm interested in precisely who is AOL's targeted demographic for this product.
    Aging Koreans... and Natalie Portman?

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