AudioFeast: First Serious Competitor To Audible?

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I’ve been aware of AudioFeast for a while now…it was initially called Serenade Systems, but chose wisely to change its name to a more consumer friendly one…

The Mountain View-CA based startup formally launched its service today, and is much like Audible, the downloadable audio company. One-year subscription for programming is $49.95.

The company offers about 400 channels of news, sports and entertainment radio programming, downloadable to your PC and MP3 player…But unlike Audible, it is planning to add portable music to its repertoire, a move I will say it gutsy, but may be too much to handle, for now, unless it plans to choose a specific undeserved category of music and run with that…(presumably it will be using Microsoft’s Janus DRM to portable music subscriptions). Portable music will be launched in October, and will have a separate pricing…

Interesting background of the top management team…ReplayTV, Liberate, Kasenna, Apple, RioPort, AOL, Liquid Audio etc…

Some more details here

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