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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. 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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  3. 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? :)

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

    (blinks)

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

    Zzzzzzzzz.......

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