Nokia to launch muisc service shortly?

[Rafe]

Fortune (via moconews) is reporting that Nokia may shortly be launching an online music store and downloading service similar to Apple's iTunes. The service based around technology gained with the acquisition of Loudeye is expected to be announced at an upcoming Nokia event in London. Its also likely the event will also be the venue for the launch of the latest in the Nseries range of phones. Read on for further information and analysis.

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[viipottaja]

Interesting that the Fortune story also mentions the same service will be used to distribute games. Wonder if we will here a bit more about the N-Gage platform in the same event?

[Dogmann]

Hi all,

Well until quite recently i was quite a happy Sony Connect user until i realised i was actually paying more to download it then if i bought the CD. I also realised that a lot of Cd's now come with interactive links to extras that i have been missing out on. I now no longer need t burn a CD for in car use and was having to convert the downloaded Music to a format suitable for my device any way. So by buying the CD i have reduced the need to convert to just once and get a better quality recording and the ability to just rip it once to the qaulity i desire for my device. I am just not a fan of downloading Music any longer as it is more expensive and offers less.

Marc

too much to ask to do a basic spellcheck?

i agree on the data cost issues, but if you could use wifi?

Nokia's Music Service one year download number will reach the number of one day of the iTunes Store. With some luck. Instead of this they should work on their iPhone rip-off.

[krisse]

"Interesting that the Fortune story also mentions the same service will be used to distribute games. Wonder if we will here a bit more about the N-Gage platform in the same event?"

I've often wondered about this, because the N-gage download system will basically be just selling and downloading data. They could use exactly the same infrastructure to sell absolutely anything including serious applications, music, videos... anything.


"Nokia's Music Service one year download number will reach the number of one day of the iTunes Store. With some luck. Instead of this they should work on their iPhone rip-off."

Macboy, FYI the iTunes store's sales are pathetic. 1 billion downloads sounds amazing, until you divide that up between the 100 million iPods sold over the past five years. 1 billion divided by 100 million works out at 10 tunes (1 album) per iPod in the entire lifetime of iTunes. Clearly, iPod owners don't give a damn about the iTunes store.

"Macboy, FYI the iTunes store's sales are pathetic. 1 billion downloads sounds amazing, until you divide that up between the 100 million iPods sold over the past five years. 1 billion divided by 100 million works out at 10 tunes (1 album) per iPod in the entire lifetime of iTunes. Clearly, iPod owners don't give a damn about the iTunes store."

LOL Obviously some iPod owners don't buy online because they have CD collections to rip, some others buy more albums and singles online. And with these sales Apple is the third largest *overall* music retailer in the U.S. Pathetic, huh?

-Macboy

About a month ago while browsing Nokia's careers site, I found out that they were looking for Music Managers (for different countries) to run their local music stores. So this must be old news