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  • Nokia's Comes with Music service launches next month -- UK first

    Filed under: Handsets , Multimedia , Nokia Nokia's "free," all-you-can-eat, music subscription service is set to world premier in the UK next month before hitting continental Europe and Asia in 2009. Nokia already has Universal Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music on board and plans to have EMI signed before launch -- in total, Nokia expects to offer some 2.1 million tracks at launch. While touted as free, the service costs will be baked into the price of Nokia's pre-pay 5310 XpressMusic Comes With Music Edition handset (currently priced between £70-£80 for the pay-as-you-go, non-CwM handset) when purchased though the UK's Carphone Warehouse. You must then purchase another CwM-compatible device at the end of the year in order to continue downloading tracks. For those not wishing to re-up with Nokia, your 5310 CwM edition phone will continue to make / receive calls and text messages and, like your computer, continue to playback all those DRM-wrapped WMA tracks -- they will not play anywhere else. While the approach is interesting, the DRM-enabled time-bomb and device lock-in makes the entire model sound fatally flawed to us -- though we're sure that'll be hacked away soon enough . Come on Amazon, now is the time to take your MP3 store global and show these fools how it's done. Update : Expect the service to launch at, or shortly after, a Nokia Comes With Music press event scheduled for October 2nd. [Via mocoNews ] Read -- FT Read -- Guardian Read -- Nokia press release Permalink | Email this | Comments

  • Nokia: Comes with Music tracks are WMA 192kbps and 128kbps

    Filed under: Multimedia , Nokia Slowly, ever so slowly, a picture is beginning to form of Nokia's all-you-can eat, free-for-1-year, keep-your-songs-for-life, Comes with Music (CWM) service. We know what it's not -- Universal's Total Music (the similarities are just a coincidence ) -- and now we know more about what it is. The following details were just confirmed to us directly by Nokia: Audio is wrapped in an old-school, WMA DRM wrapper Songs can be burned to CD only after purchasing an upgrade of undisclosed cost Nokia has not announced any CWM devices, yet You can download music directly to your CWM device or computer using a unique PIN Songs will play only on your CWM device and the computer you registered with your CWM account Oh, and tracks will "typically" be delivered in 192kbps, while "older tracks may be delivered at 128kbps" Understandably, Nokia was not willing to discuss the financial arrangement they are offering the labels. But come on Nokia, surely you can convince 'em to drop the DRM by mid-2008, right? There are plenty of places to hide any added cost. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

  • Nokia: our Comes with Music service is not Universal's Total Music

    Filed under: Multimedia , Nokia Remember Nokia's utopian / not-so-free and crippled "free" Comes with Music offering? We've been in contact with Nokia who'd like to clarify the service. According to Nokia, Comes with Music is, "completely independent from the Universal music store." Nokia further distances themselves by stating that, "Universal was simply the first of these to publicly sign on. The fact that there are some similarities shows how the industry is thinking about the future of digital music - but its not a sign of any direct linkage between the offerings." So, now we know what it isn't, but we still don't know exactly what it is. Regardless, anything can happen between now and the launch in "mid 2008" -- an eternity on a digital music evolution timeline. Perhaps the lack of detail is Nokia's way of farming public opinion before the details are announced. Wouldn't be a first. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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