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Microsoft and MTV to Launch Music Service

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the continued-reactionary-behavior dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to ZDNet Microsoft and MTV have joined forces to form Urge, a new online music service. From the article: 'The company said Urge would include a subscription component, as well as allowing individual song sales. A spokesman declined to discuss pricing, saying full details would be announced next month. The company gave no specifics on launch date beyond saying it would be sometime in 2006.'"

12 of 233 comments (clear)

  1. Music? by KingSkippus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Music?

    I know Microsoft has the music player in Windows, but what does MTV have to do with music?

    1. Re:Music? by themoodykid · · Score: 4, Funny

      They are doing a reality show about i.

  2. Urge? by penguinboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds more like a service for "adult material", not music.

  3. Re:Serious Question by el+americano · · Score: 4, Funny

    poisoning the minds of every youth in the U.S.A. and Canada

    Don't stop there. Obviously you've never watched MTV en Español.

    --
    Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. -Groucho Marx
  4. Sounds like by Avisto · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds more like ughh.

  5. Pricing by Nightspirit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If they charge $0.25 per song, or even approach allofmp3.com (although I doubt they'll go that low) I might actually start purchasing music online. Or allow my choice of format.

    If this service allows different formats (including lossless), is compatible with multiple players, has minimum DRM, and enters a pricewar with itunes it would be a good thing.

    I even might consider paying $1 a song if they sell FLAC or another lossless format.

  6. This is SO AWESOME!!! by Aqua+OS+X · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, this is SO AWESOME. Finally, someone is combining the best things on Earth... Microsoft's quality software and MTV's quality music!!!

    Now, if only they could toss Wal*mart and McDonald's into the mix!

    --
    "Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
  7. No worries... by KingSkippus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm just glad that someone here realized what the hell I was talking about in spite of the Redundant mod. Apparently, too many folks here haven't actually watched MTV since the 1980's. Oh well, can't say I blame 'em.

    They'll figure it out soon enough, though. I wonder how long it will be before this new online music service only has content about pimping cars, playing jokes on people, weird people forced to share a house, and so on instead of, well, you know... music.

    1. Re:No worries... by Shihar · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Too bad it isn't just MTV that sucks. Have you tried watching the Discovery Channel? When in the hell did science become purely about building fucking motorcycle. I swear that they play absolutely nothing except motorcycle building reality TV shows and the occasional MythBusters. It makes me fucking hate TV. I can't wait until the day that everything is on demand. I figure once everything is on demand one of two things will happen:

      1) The good shows will get their moment in the sun and execs won't be able to kill them. It will be clear that people like good programing, not the latest reality TV crap fest. I am happy as good shows become easy to find and I never half to even flip past a shitty show again.

      2) All the good shows get killed because most people are dim witted idiots that love the latest shit flung at us by execs. I never ever watch a shitty show again because I give up TV. As a positive side effect, I will also never worry about low voter turn out in the US as it is clear the shit flinging idiots probably shouldn't be mucking up the system with their inane opinion as to who should be the leader.

    2. Re:No worries... by greysky · · Score: 4, Funny

      Lewis Black put it best:

      "MTV is to music what KFC is to chicken."

  8. Re:Could be big by DrEldarion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's funny, MTV became so overrun with non-music that they created MTV2 for the music. Now, the same thing is starting to happen with MTV2.

  9. Re:Stupid Unless... by Psiren · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Something wrong with allofmp3.com?

    Ask the artists whose music they sell...