Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Celestial Jukebox Falls to Earth

http://wired.com/news/columns/0,71122-0.html?tw=wn_index_13

All music lovers who own portable devices are about to get an even bigger freedom, Celestial jukebox. Rather than being stuck with the music downloaded onto your mp3 player via computer, Celestial jukebox can give everyone the ability to access all content ever created, from anywhere, at any time. The celestial wi-fi jukebox is about impulse buying, and this long discussed concept is finally becoming a reality. Concrete ideas about how this company will launch are happening now. A few immediate thoughts were to incorporate a flat fee subscription rate like the company Rhapsody, which subscribers paid a monthly fee of $15.00 dollars.

"A Wi-Fi-enabled subscription service would lead to all sorts of impulse listening. While reading a music magazine in bed, you could queue up downloads of the artists mentioned without getting up. Or if a friend tells you about a band they think you'll like, you could listen to it on the way home (provided there's some Wi-Fi nearby, as is increasingly the case).
The celestial jukebox, which will famously follow you around reacting to your every musical whim, could be enabled by mere earthbound internet cables and Wi-Fi hot spots".

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