Loudeye, Microsoft in Music Deal

Digital media company Loudeye, working with Microsoft, is expected to announce new digital music solutions that enable companies to have a music store or Internet radio service under their own brand. The service offers downloadable or streamed songs, and a Loudeye iRadio Service with 100 channels of pre-programmed music.

Loudeye’s first two customers for this are AT&T Wireless and Gibson Audio, the recently established consumer electronics division of Gibson Guitar.

SF Chronicle: Loudeye…has licensed about 350,000 songs from the world’s five biggest record labels, which puts it on par with the offerings of existing online music services. But the Digital Music Store lets any company interested in starting an iTunes-style service do so for a fraction of the cost, said Loudeye President Jeff Cavins.

Seattle Times: AT&T Wireless will begin selling music downloads over cellphones sometime next year…Once they buy a song, it will be sent to an online storage locker to be downloaded onto their computers. The price of the song would be included in AT&T Wireless’ monthly cellphone bill.

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