snapshot 6/5/07

Melodeo plans music service from iTunes playlists - NuTsie
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070605/tc_nm/melodeo_mobilemusic_dc_1;_ylt=AlRcIq8CyLJN1RDdV5MieTNkM3wV
Melodeo Inc. said on Tuesday it plans to help music fans expand use of their iTunes digital music collections beyond their desktop computer and iPod by streaming songs in personal libraries to mobile phones. Privately held Melodeo, which already delivers Web-based audio clips to phones, said the service -- now in test mode -- would stream songs to cell phones for music fans who provide it with a list of the songs stored in personal libraries that use iTunes, Apple Inc's (Nasdaq:AAPL - news) digital music software.


Lala.com to send songs directly to iPods
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070605/ap_on_hi_te/digital_music_lala_com;_ylt=As8OA42HfGoOR8PfKItZNrlkM3wV
Entrepreneurs behind Silicon Valley startup Lala.com hope to transform the CD-swapping site into a music portal where members can download songs directly to their iPods, bypassing the computer hard drives where most music is stored. The Palo Alto-based company has an agreement in principle to sell nearly 200,000 songs from Warner Music Group Corp. for 99 cents each, starting Tuesday. Members will also be able to play the Warner songs for free, and the company will pay Warner a penny each time someone listens to a song.

To download songs to an iPod, members must download a 3-megabyte plug- Macintosh computers. Because the songs aren't stored on the PC hard drive, the primary source for files pirated on peer-to-peer networks, Lala will dispense with traditional digital rights management, which controls which devices can play a song.


Apple TV vs. TiVo: It's on
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20070605/tc_usatoday/appletvvstivoitson;_ylt=AgK2x9ci7ubFMxX33_vlm01kM3wV
Apple's iTunes and Amazon.com's Unbox service have been offering movie downloads for several months; both have upgraded their offerings with set-top boxes designed to move those movies to the TV set - Apple TV and TiVo. I put the two through their paces. For homes with fast broadband connections and a robust home network, Apple TV and Amazon.com/TiVo's service can serve as a supersized digital video recorder and a worthy video-on-demand option. "But you really need a stable home network," McQuivey advises. Both are an early sign that the convergence of TV and the Internet has begun.


eMusic Grabs Paul McCartney Release
http://hypebot.typepad.com/hypebot/2007/06/emusic_grabs_pa.html
In a smart move eMusic has gained the rights to make Paul McCartney's new album "Memory Almost Full" available to its subscribers as DRM free mp3's. The offering even extends to the free tracks that new eMusic subscribers receive.


Free and legal music downloads
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9726153-1.html
One such company is the recently launched music venture, We7. The service, which is set to launch sometime this month, will offer free music downloads that can be played on any MP3 player. And, yes, of course there's a catch; after all, a major goal of the site is to make sure that artists get paid for their work and that can't happen without some sort of income. In this case, the money will come from advertisers.