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Nokia will launch Australia’s first subscription music service today as it seeks to use its mobile industry clout to topple Apple’s iTunes off its perch.

But the venture could struggle to gain traction in a market dominated by the iPod, as songs bought from the store are incompatible with Apple’s ubiquitous music player.

The store, part of Nokia’s concerted diversification into online mobile services such as gaming, navigation and social networking, will sell downloads of individual tracks for $A1.70 ($NZ2) and albums from $A17.

And in an Australia-first offering, Nokia will allow customers to stream an unlimited number of full-length tracks directly from a player built into its music store website for a subscription fee of $A10 a month.

Songs can be downloaded directly from certain Nokia mobile phones or via the PC and synchronised to mobile devices. Nokia’s 5310, 5610, 5700, N78, N81, N82, N91, N95, N96 and N76 handsets are all compatible, and the phone giant said other mobile music devices should work provided they support Windows Media Player.

All 2.5 million songs will be locked down using Windows Media digital rights management (DRM), and must be synchronised with mobile devices using Windows Media Player 11. Users will only be able to load tracks on to five different devices.

The move to restrict the use and distribution of the songs using DRM locks is curious because record labels are already experimenting overseas with DRM-free MP3 files, which are widely supported and can be played on an unlimited number of devices.

The iPod does not support the Windows Media format, WMA.

Karen Farrugia, Nokia Australia’s music services manager, acknowledged that locking out iPod users would greatly limit the potential target market but said Nokia still aimed to topple iTunes.

“At this time we are launching Windows Media DRM-protected files and we will look in the future to introduce an MP3 service. . . we’re in discussions with labels to really work on that,” she said.

Nokia’s catalogue includes artists represented by the major labels Sony BMG, EMI and Universal, as well as a swathe of smaller labels including the Australian-based Hillsong, Modular and Shock Entertainment.

Farrugia said there would be a distinct focus on Australian artists, and Nokia has already lined up exclusive tracks from John Butler Trio and Pete Murray. Discussions were under way to bring the final major label, Warner Music, onboard.

Nokia would also offer “free tracks of the week” to push forward emerging artists, starting off with Stone Parade of Sydney’s Northern Beaches, which won last year’s Nokia Be Heard competition. This month the band also won the 2008 International Songwriting Competition, ahead of fellow Australian group Eskimo Joe.

The Australian unveiling of the Nokia Music Store follows the launch of the service in Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Singapore, Germany and Italy.

“Australia is one of the top 10 countries in the Nokia world,” company spokeswoman Louise Ingram said.

While most music stores based on Windows Media DRM have failed to gain traction - largely due to the dominance of the iPod and iTunes - Nokia has a better chance of success due to its position as leader of the mobile phone handset market.

Nokia shipped 146 million music-enabled devices in 2007, more than any other device maker.

The move comes at a time when digital music sales are booming but, much to the chagrin of record labels, not enough to make up for the decline in physical CD sales.

Earlier this month, Apple’s iTunes Store surpassed retail giant Wal-Mart to become the No 1 music retailer in the US.

Australians will be able to access the Nokia Music Store at music.nokia.com.au.

via http://www.stuff.co.nz/4490483a28.html

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — Apple Inc. is mulling a plan to upend its iTunes business by giving people unlimited free access to the music library if they’re willing to pay more for the iPod and iPhone devices they use for playing and storing the digital media, according to a report published Wednesday.

Some analysts threw cold water on the plan outlined in the Financial Times, however, saying Cupertino-based Apple would risk creating an “accounting nightmare” and alienating some artists if it started giving away songs on its iTunes online store.

Rumors have buzzed through the industry for a couple of years that Apple might open iTunes for free downloads.

Meanwhile, Apple’s rivals are experimenting with new ways to distribute music online — including giving it away.

The newspaper cited unnamed music industry sources in reporting that Apple is negotiating with record labels over a deal to offer a monthly music subscription for the iPhone, as well as an unlimited music bundle for both the iPod and iPhone.

The cheapest iPods — the Shuffle model — currently start at $49, and the cheapest iPhones start at $399.

The Financial Times didn’t say how much the prices of those devices would jump if the proposal were to go through. But it said the sticking point in the discussions how much Apple will pay the labels for access to their music libraries, with Apple currently offering to pay just $20 per device.

Apple did not respond to requests for comment.

Some analysts said the iTunes store is too valuable to Apple for it to give away the music in it.

“I think it’s a little far-fetched at this stage,” said Tim Bajarin, president of technology consulting firm Creative Strategies in Campbell, California. “The studios still want to be compensated. And the artists, especially the independent artists, still want to be compensated. I’m skeptical that carte blanche, free access to any music may be in the works.”

Only about 10 percent of Apple’s revenues come through iTunes — about $2.5 billion in 2007. But the store has been a critical tool for driving the more-lucrative iPod sales and helping musicians get paid for their work.

Apple sold $8.3 billion in iPods last year, an 8 percent increase over the year before.

The success of iTunes has helped Apple become one of the world’s biggest music retailers — it’s currently the No. 2 music retailer in the U.S. behind Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Check out a history of recording technology »

But it’s also exposed Apple to criticism over how the company protects its content and prompted Apple to campaign for new ways to distribute music legally online.

The criticisms center on the inability to play songs bought on iTunes on rival products to the iPod, such as Microsoft Corp.’s Zune player.

To free up online music, Apple CEO Steve Jobs says the major record labels should strip protections known as Digital Rights Management, or DRM, technology, which prevents unauthorized copying, from their songs sold online. Apple, meanwhile, has refused to abandon its own copying protections.

Some of Apple’s rivals are already trying out new approaches.

Nokia Corp., the world’s largest mobile phone maker, announced a deal with Universal Music Group in December that gives buyers of certain Nokia phones unlimited free downloads of songs from the Universal catalog.

Seattle-based RealNetworks Inc. and Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft both offer music subscriptions that cost $14.99 per month that the companies believe will appeal to customers who are more interested in discovering new music than owning old favorites.

Neil Smith, a vice president of marketing for Rhapsody, said its subscribers delve deeper into back catalogs and check out more independent artists than typical in-person music store shoppers. Subscribers also buy more MP3s than non-subscribers.

“We believe that this kind of approach, where unlimited content can flow seamlessly across different devices and media, is the best thing for the consumer and the industry,” said Microsoft spokesman Jason Reindorp. “It brings the focus back to where it should be — the music.”

via  http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/03/20/apple.itunes.ap/index.html?eref=rss_tech

Investment research firm Piper Jaffray today held a conference call regarding teenage spending habits and statistics, which brought to light several figures about Apple devices and services. Of the students surveyed, the report found that 87-percent owned an MP3 player, and of those, 86-percent are iPod owners. This also reflected in the students’ choice of music store, with iTunes sitting at 79-percent. The advent of other iPod-compatible music stores eroded iTunes’ share slightly from 89-percent.About 6-percent of students polled also revealed they own an iPhone, with an additional 9-percent saying they plan to own one within six months. This indicates that the iPhone’s share has doubled from last fall, which Piper Jaffray believes could indicate that Apple will slightly exceed its goal of 10-percent market saturation.

In terms of competition, Real Networks’ Rhapsody service is used by 2-percent of students polled, while Microsoft’s Zune is the next most popular MP3 player, with 3-percent share.

via http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/04/08/apple.popular.with.teens/

Forget about MySpace. Music groups are now turning to branded search engines to reach their fans online.

By using the special search engines, fans earn points that can be redeemed for band swag, like T-shirts, posters, and autographed guitars, as well as etched iPods and other electronics, movie tickets, music, and books.

Ted Nugent fans can even win a hunting trip with the carnivorous rocker.

“It makes the bands look tech-savvy. They don’t look so old and legacy-like,” says Hab Haddad, vice president of business development at music management firm McGhee Entertainment. The firm represents Ted Nugent, Hootie and the Blowfish, and KISS, a favorite among Internet searchers, apparently.

Barry Manilow’s site is also pretty popular, says Ron Leshem, vice president of marketing at Prodege, the firm that creates and markets the sites. KISS and Manilow are each “getting a check every month in the multiple thousand-dollar range,” he says.

The KISS search site has a nice big picture of the photogenic band in all their face-painted glory, and a search box for Web, news, images, or video searches for anything your heart desires. The results are powered by Google and Ask. It gets about 20,000 unique visitors a month, according to Leshem.

You earn “Swag Bucks” as you search on the site, or any of the other approximately 80 celebrity-branded search sites, which include Beyonce, Wynonna Judd, Willie Nelson, Hilary Duff, the Indiana Pacers, the Indianapolis Colts, and New England Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss.

For 45 Swag Bucks you can get a $5 credit at Starbucks; 325 Swag Bucks gets you KISS fragrance for men; and for 2,500 Swag Bucks you can get a Gene Simmons Gold Record (Rare Production Sample).

It’s unclear how many searches you have to conduct to get a point. People tend to win about five times a day, and you can get matching Swag Bucks for referring friends, according to Leshem.

For the band management firms, signing up for a branded search site is a no-brainer. They earn, on average, 15 cents per click on a sponsored link; they get traffic to the bands’ other Web sites through a toolbar fans can install; and they get rid of promotional items from tours that are just laying around the band office, says Haddad.

I’m waiting for the Spinal Tap search site, myself

via  http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9913701-7.html?tag=nefd.top

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iMuffs headphones from Wi-Gear improve sound, work wirelessly with most iPods

In the world of iPod accessories—4,000-plus and counting—the ones worth the money are those that improve the listening experience. I have two for you today, one that will be great when the bugs are worked out and a pair of headphones that makes iPod portability even better.

Let’s start with the almost-there product. “Almost” because it worked with some iPods I tested, but not all. I often won’t write about a product proving unreliable, but I really like what this does and, more importantly, I believe that the people building it will soon get it right.

It’s called miShare, and the simple, rectangular gadget is smaller than a standard iPod but bigger than the redesigned Nano (affectionately dubbed the “fatty”). At both ends there is a 30-pin adapter to connect two iPods to transfer songs from one to another.

And it works, mostly.

Plug an iPod with the music to share into the source end. Let’s call this the “pitcher.” (Hey, baseball season is here!) At the other end, plug into the “catcher” iPod to receive the music.

Unfortunately, my 80-gigabyte iPod did not work as a catcher. But as a pitcher, it sent songs to my fatty. With the fatty, I was able to share music—as a pitcher and catcher—with a colleague’s iPod.

That’s why I love this little gadget. It’s designed to swap music between friends, so you can share iPod playlists and tips on new artists. This is very convenient and fast; songs move over in seconds.

There are a few reasons why I had trouble with some iPods.

First, it will not work with the Touch and the iPhone, yet.

Second, the catcher iPod must be in “manual” update mode. When you plug your iPod into a computer to sync it, the default setting is for automatic updates, but it is easy to switch to manual. In manual, whenever you add music, movies or photos to your computer and want it on the iPod, you instruct the iPod to pick up that content.

But changing this setting on my 80 gb iPod didn’t fix my problem.

Third, the miShare developers—two guys working from a Brooklyn, N.Y., apartment—are working out some bugs. My big iPod, for instance, has too much data on it, causing transfer problems. But the fatty, which can hold up to 8 gb worth of content, did not have that issue.

This issue and some others—you can share video and photos too, but not seamlessly—will be addressed in a software upgrade set for release in a few weeks, said co-founder Nathaniel Wice. He called my issue an “intermittent problem” related to the iTunes database.

Another update will follow to address compatibility issues with the Touch and iPhone.

Wice called the development of miShare, which runs on the open-source Linux platform, a “constant” work in progress. “Designing something that’s easy to use is a process.”

When it works, it is easy to use. The device has one function button. Just make an “on-the-go” music playlist on the iPod and press the function button. The songs move over.

But not all songs. To address the obvious legal issues of sharing music between iPods, songs protected by digital rights management software—primarily those bought at Apple’s iTunes store—won’t play on the catcher iPod.

Some people might question the ability to share music so freely, but this is a legal device designed for one-to-one sharing. It’s not a piece of file-sharing software where thousands of people can get a copy of a song.

Despite the early flaws, I recommend miShare. It will only improve, and the software on the device can be upgraded so you won’t have to buy another. It is sold for $100 at www.miShare.com, and discussions are under way with a major brick-and-mortar retailer, Wice said.

A sound enhancement

Regular readers know I often recommend iPod buyers improve the sound with new headphones.

The iMuffs do that plus provide a great wireless connection via Bluetooth. They are made by Wi-Gear and can be bought on the firm’s site, Wi-Gear.com.

The model I tested sold for $150 and paired easily and quickly with each iPod I tested, except one, the iPod Touch. Wi-Gear has introduced a new model, the $180 MB210, which works with the Touch.

I also tested the iMuffs on a TV-playing phone, the Verizon Voyager, and was quite pleased that I could watch live games from the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament while listening with the iMuffs. Beautiful.

So, yes, these work with music-playing phones, except the iPhone. That’s Apple’s fault because it didn’t include a profile in that music phone for stereo Bluetooth headphones.

You might think the price for these headphones is high, but the iMuffs ship with a Bluetooth adapter for the iPod. That’s usually a $40 item sold separately.

Via  http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-mon-tech-buzz-ipod-mishare-imar31,0,7036862.story

Operating an iPod from across the room usually requires three devices: the iPod, a stereo dock and a remote. But Monster, the company best known for its fancy cables, has cut out the middle man. Its iSoniCast Wireless Audio Bridge lets you beam music from the iPod itself to a distant stereo.

The iSoniCast adds a dock to the stereo and a small broadcast card to the base of the iPod. The regular iPod touch wheel controls the music, so you can switch from jazz to blues when the mood strikes, even while circulating at a cocktail party.

The device can transmit up to 30 feet using the 2.4 gigahertz band, although 20 feet is a more reliable distance. It uses some battery power, shortening listening time.

Streaming at 4 megabits per second, the resulting music should sound better than a transmission over Bluetooth, but not up to CD standards.

The iSoniCast, which sells for $100, is compatible with any iPod with a 30-pin connector that fits in a dock — except the iPhone. Sorry, no crank calls over the stereo to amuse partygoers. ROY FURCHGOTT

via  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/technology/personaltech/27broadcast.html?ref=personaltech

Apple is in discussions with the big music companies about a radical new business model that would give customers free access to its entire iTunes music library in exchange for paying a premium for its iPod and iPhone devices.

The “all you can eat” model, a replica of Nokia’s “comes with music” deal with Universal Music last December, could provide the struggling recorded music industry with a much-needed fillip, and drive demand for a new generation of Apple’s hardware.

Apple would not comment on the plan, but executives familiar with the negotiations said they hinged on a dispute over the price the computer maker would be willing to pay for access to the labels’ libraries.

Nokia is understood to be offering almost $80 per handset to music industry partners, to be divided according to their share of the market. However, Apple has so far offered only about $20 per device, two executives said. “It’s who blinks first, and whether or not anyone does blink,” one executive said.

Detailed market research has shown strong appetite among consumers for deals bundling music in with the cost of the device, or in exchange for a monthly subscription, executives said.

One executive said the research had shown that consumers would pay a premium of up to $100 for unlimited access to music for the lifetime of the device, or a monthly fee of $7-$8 for a subscription model.

Apple, which is thought to make relatively little money from the iTunes store compared with its hardware sales, is also understood to be examining a subscription model.

Subscriptions would work only for its iPhone devices, where it has a monthly billing relationship with customers through the mobile phone operators offering the device, while the “comes with music” model would work with iPhones and with iPods.

The subscription models under discussion in the music industry include the provision for customers to keep up to 40 or 50 tracks a year, which they would retain even if they changed their device or their subscription lapses.

Other music groups are understood to be in talks with Nokia, which is keen to sign up as many of the major labels as possible before launching its first “comes with music” devices in the second half of this year.

Additional reporting by Kevin Allison in San Francisco

via http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e35a7404-f557-11dc-a21b-000077b07658.html

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