SIRIUS Music Partner: Yahoo! Music
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 at 5:41 PM
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Gee, who saw this coming? Apparently the elusive music partner that will fulfill song purchases made off of the Sirius Stiletto is... wait for it... Yahoo! Music, according to sources familiar with the matter.
While not much of a surprise to us fanboys tracking this from Day 1, the Yahoo! Music partnership is nice to hear anyway. Back in February, Mel Karmazin mentioned that there will be "buy button" functionality for the Stiletto - since then we've been speculating who the partner will be.
Much like the XM+Napster partnership, Yahoo! Music integrated in the Stiletto will supposedly give the user the ability to "tag" a song heard and then allow them to purchase it (presumably when they get within WiFi range). More on this as information comes in...
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Much like the XM/Napster partnership, this will be a nice feature for the literally dozens of people that will use it. Less depending on how restrictive the DRM will be...
Posted by: MikeHunt ? | September 5, 2006 6:40 PM
"Gee, who saw this coming?" I laffed.
And i kind of agree with MikeHunt. In the fact since getting XM i have purchased 2 full albums and have pirated very little compared to when i didnt have XM. Really dont see the point of owning music anymore. Its all at my finger tips programmed by someone better than me.
Posted by: tussel ? | September 5, 2006 7:01 PM
WOW, I agree with Tussel, why waste money and time with buying songs when I have 60+ 24 hr music stations. I just don't get the Ipod fad.
Posted by: Tom C. ? | September 5, 2006 8:12 PM
And they dont get us. Tell just about anyone that you rely on Sat Radio for your music enjoyment and they will say. "Radio is dead, get an iPod".
Posted by: tussel ? | September 5, 2006 8:49 PM
dammit tussel, why do you have to make sense?
Posted by: NWXMDUDE ? | September 5, 2006 9:53 PM
I use Napster to organize the XM recordings on my Inno, nothing more. iTMS suits 99% of my 'purchased music' needs.
Posted by: Pete ? | September 5, 2006 10:30 PM
that is all I use the Napster software for...to eliminate the commercials out of O&A and the go on listening through the day.
Posted by: NWXMDUDE ? | September 5, 2006 11:24 PM
Ive purchased more music in the 2 years ive had XM since probably 1996 or so when I had to have every album for its 1 good song.
I love the fact that I hear so much new stuff that I would never pick up on without Satellite and I do spend money on CDs now. This is why the whole RIAA suit pisses me off more than anything becaue I personally have pumped hundreds of dollars into the industry that they never would have seen without it.
As for partnerships; I have a mac. napster+xm stinks for me becuase it obviously doesnt work. For my inno, it is worthless, but hey. I would never use napster anyway. much rather have the actual disc.
Posted by: MarkS ? | September 6, 2006 12:59 AM
Wow. Im not into music downloading, but a number of my friends are and they all use either itunes or yahoo music. I know absolutely nobody who uses napster on a regular basis. This wont help XMs declining sales and loosing makret share to Sirius for the last 11 straight months.
Posted by: Steve | September 6, 2006 2:08 PM