XM to Offer Music Downloads Through Napster
Anyone who’s ever heard a great new song on XM and completely forgot what it was later can rejoice: XM and Napster have teamed up to launch a service where XM subscribers can easily download songs they like from the online music service. “XM + Napster” works with XM-compatible MP3 players to allow users to bookmark songs heard on XM, then plug his or her MP3 player into a PC where Napster will find your songs in its database and download them. Users of XM’s MyFi portable satellite radio can mark songs for purchase online through the existing XM Radio Online.
The news comes a short while after Sirius made an attempt to strike a deal with Apple to put the service on the iPod, but Steve Jobs wasn’t interested.
September 2nd, 2005 at 1:19 pm
[...] Not to be outdone, XM has announced its own portable player. And, as par for the course, it actually outshines Sirius’s S50 in several ways. The most obvious is design. XM’s “Samsung neXus” is smaller than the S50 (3.4 inches tall, 1.9 inches wide and 0.7 inches deep). It’s also sleeker, and a bit more stylish, more closely mimicking the more popular, minimalist portable mp3 players available. But the differances don’t end there. Although both players store up to 50 hours of music, the Samsung neXus has the extra feature of letting users flag songs they here on XM to purchase on Napster. This cool and useful feature shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to followers of SateLink. As we reported in July, XM and Napster are teaming up to offer a service called XM+Napster that brilliantly cross promotes both companies and offers download services through XM. [...]