Yahoo and Rhapsody have announced a new service that will allow users of Yahoo’s search engine to get full song playback for songs they are searching for without needing to head to other sites.
Users who search for a specific artist’s song using Yahoo Search will be able to play the song back in its entirety through Rhapsody’s FoxyTunes Player which will be sitting in a shortcut at the top of the search results page.
Yahoo says the new feature is just another part of its new “play the web” strategy which it hopes will open Yahoo to content and services it is not known for.
The company added that there are already 5 million tracks supported but there is of course one large catch. Users can only listen to 25 free full length songs each month before they are only allowed to listen to 30-second clips like on iTunes.
Overall, the service works well and I’ve screencapped a recent search of mine to show how the service works. After typing in Pink Floyd in the search the artist, with picture, discography etc showed up and underneath there is the “play full length tracks” option. Also, if you stop the song before the one minute mark, it does not count against your 25 free for the month.
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First announced last December, Nokia’s oft-delayed Comes With Music service is finally official (at least for the UK) and will hit handsets beginning October 17th.
The first handset to include the service will be the Nokia 5310 and the exclusive retailer will be Carphone Warehouse. The service, which allows users to download unlimited DRM-free music for one year and then keep it forever, will cost 70 GBP in addition to the original price of the handset.
The service will have include the full catalogs of Universal Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music but notably lacks EMI.
There was no word on the price of the actual handset as of yet but we will keep you updated.
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According to the Department of Justice, another member of the once prominent warez scene group aPOCALYPSE pRODUCTION cREW (aPC) has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after being convicted of “Conspiracy to Commit Criminal Copyright Infringement.”
Barry Gitarts, otherwise known as “Dextro”, is the 15th person to receive jail time for their part in aPC.
The group was founded in 1997 and is generally known as the first organized warez group that uploaded CDs and MP3s to the Internet. aPC became well known in the scene for their pre-release uploads of CDs which they had acquired from magazine workers and music industry insiders.
The group, and its administrators and uploaders, were taken down as part of Operation Fastlink in 2004.
Gitarts was given the stiff sentence because he was found to have operated and financed a server in which the group strored “thousands of music files, movies, games and software.”
