Check out mp3tunes.com, a new business from the guy behind mp3.com and other dot.coms. For $40 a year you get unlimited file storage and unlimited throughput on 128k streaming from their site – upload your entire music collection and listen to it no matter where you are. If you’re not already running your own home streaming solution, this is a really interesting option. Granted, 128k is on the low end but for the price it’s incredible, especially when coupled with unlimited storage. They also have a synching tool to help you migrate your music collection to their servers. This is really a pretty good deal for anyone interested in having their music collection hosted online who doesn’t have the means to bring up their own hosting solution. There’s also a free version of the service which is limited to 56k streams, which might be worth testing for podcasts and other material where sound clarity is not as much of an issue. I’m left wondering how long it will take the RIAA to get steamed about this and call out the lawyers, I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
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As a followup to this – over at techcrunch.com there’s a post:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/12/02/oboes-web-music-locker/
with more details, and the author is following up as he works through issues with the software. So far, not so good, but he’s determined to get it working. There’s also a link to another interesting service along the same lines from the comments on his site:
http://www.mediamax.com/
It’s more expensive ($9.95 a month, plus some limits on bandwidth and file storage) but it’s much more featureful, including video and picture storage amongst other things. Worth a look if you’re interested in services of this nature. Mediamax is still in beta but they’re taking signups here:
http://www.streamload.com/mediamax
if you’re interested in testing it out.
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