Quest for online music

I recently decided that online music was worth a shot. For plenty of reasons, convenience, price, vastness of the catalog, etc...

Then began my quest for an online music service. And my discovery of audio formats and DRM. I assumed stupidly that I would be able to just download MP3s that would conveniently play on my already numerous digital music players (Car radio, DVD player, portable CD player, Smartphone, Palm, etc...).

My smartphone: SPV C500

It is fate that drove me to this smartphone. I would have hesitated in getting a Windows CE smartphone. Well, I own one now. You can have a look at the Wikipedia article as this phone is known by different names in different countries.

What is there to say? I got the phone a month ago, and am ready to express my first comments. I must concede that they are mostly criticism. I must also concede that I haven't own a cellular phone in 4 years before this episode.

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Posted by pieroxy on August 2, 2005 2:52:00 AM PDT #

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All that is in there is just stuff I made up for the most part. However, the chances that some truth found its way in it are non negligible so this possibility should not be discarded. After all, I usually link to my sources. That said, those sources are most likely probably completely made up as well. You want to make sure it's going to work? Try it out for yourself. Ah, as well, those parts that are not blatantly stolen to others are © Pieroxy. Obviously. And last, but not least, thanks to David Vignoni for his icon set nuvola, to Manfred Klein for his font Stampede and to George Herriman for the work of his life, Krazy Kat.