At CES, we’re also showing our first car device. Yup – your music locker in your car. It’s great stuff. Clarion is showcasing in their booth, Intel’s and others their MiND system which will sync songs from your net locker to your car whenever it is near a net connection.

Plus we recently announced ability to send music from your locker to any mobile phone (except the iphone because Apple locks it down).

Of course users have built lots of other interfaces for DVRs, game consoles, etc. You can see screenshots at: http://www.mp3t...com/screenshots And we have a free account users can sign up for.

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I think your problem might be due to not finding those songs in the Gracenote DB, that might become a challenge for Musana or at least something to work on.

Last time I checked, it cost money to send/receive/store files. How will this company survive?

As a suggestion, a website like elance.com could be beneficial for somebody like yourself. You can discover and commission web-designers to put your idea into motion. Also, there’s a good amount of websites out there that have somewhat related content to what I believe you are describing (amiestreet was the first one that came to mind, when I started reading your post)

Personally, I have partnered with two web designers i found through my own network and we have been excitedly working to bring it to fruition soon enough. Best wishes if you decide to pursue it!

This is where I was hit with the ages old idea of commissioned work! Set up a user base of literally 10’s of millions who bid/commission pennies to dollars on each artist for each new song that the artist releases. Real time commissioning of individual works. The artist would hold no rights to the creative work once released via the system. The system would release the work under a creative commons type of license. All commissions minus a small set (non-percentage unless commission was under a certain amount) fee would go directly to the artist/creator. The creative work would automatically be added to any and all users automatic download queue who set a commissioning fee bid on that particular artist.

The artists would be able to view information on user base, real time price for a new commissioned work and more.

Users would be able to set how many songs per day, dollars/cents per day, songs per artist per day/week/month, etc they would be willing to commission. Each user would have to seed their account with some monies before they would be allowed to start commissioning works. Think of the bidding and commissioner selectable criteria along the Ad Sense style model.

After the release and commission payout of a work, it would be available free to any and all for download.

1.) Think of the artist making $75,000 per song based on 500,000 users bidding an average of .15 for that new unheard song. If an artist/creator releases one song a month at that rate… the artist makes $900k while the consumers pay out $1.80. Both the artist/creator and the consumer feel like they are on the greener side of the fence.

2.) Artists could collaborate on songs and still be each paid well! (this may also be one of the quagmires, may need to work out a percentage of individual commission based on popularity (commission fee current average) of each artist)

If you are a company or team that could pull this off contact me.

Jake Zebell at goog mail

I can really envisage the next features in this, but my online music anywhere really helps when out of my laptop and want to put my music on.

It has this Apple sense of design and colours without the depressing lists of files.

So far so good, i can’t say there’s probably a few things there still working out (like there’s some English words to be found in the French version of the service) but it seems frictionless enough to me.

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