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Your Music Anywhere Via The Web With blueTunes

Posted by Chris
On September 26, 2008
Categories: Apple, Featured, Web

blueTunes logo [take your tunes to the cloud] A new web service for listening to your own music, not sharing it, has been launched today. Called, blueTunes, it allows users to upload their music collection and listen to it via the web. Going on holiday? Take a laptop and your music will follow. At a party that lacks decent music? (We’ve all been in that situation I’m sure!) Login and blast a few of your ~~favorites~~ favourites!

Simple in form and function blueTunes sounds like a great idea and could be useful if you want your music here there and everywhere. However, as Michael Arrington points out on TechCrunch, is it legal?

“If this sounds familiar it’s because it’s not the first time users could upload their music to the cloud and listen to it anywhere. Michael Robertson’s MP3.com tried it in 2000 and was promptly sued for copyright infringement. They lost, shut down the service and settled for $200 million.”

Oh Boy, BlueTunes, This Looks Like Trouble To Me

Is such a service really necessary?

Having a backup is also a great idea, although you might already do that locally (I do).

If you simply need access to your whole music collection no matter where you are then bluetunes.net could be your only solution. Particularly handy if your whole collection does not fit on your Apple iPod (or other mp3 player).

With the Internet becomming more accessable via mobile [cell] phones I wonder if this type of service for music and other media will become more popular and commonplace. Due to the limited space on such devices it may become the best way to listen to music on the move.

What if iTunes did this?

Perhaps in the future Apple will intergrate a similar feature into iTunes, where tracks that you have bought are available to stream online. Taken a step further iTunes could become web based too with the iTunes store and your own collection available via any web browser. Such a leap for Apple could also be used to improve Genius too.

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