Our Canadian visitors (we know you are out there!) will soon be able to download their music legally, but of course they will need a fee. The company PressPlay will launch a Canadian version of their service, but also
In partnership with Canada's Sympatico-Lycos, PressPlay will offer its subscription service to Canadians who want to listen to an array of rock, pop, jazz, country, hip-hop and R&B songs on demand. Rumoured to cost $9.95 per month (the company had not finalized prices by press time), the Canadian version of PressPlay will let customers access streamed music much like digital cable subscribers currently listen to music channels over their home TV. |
But the estimated $9.95 a month will just get you access to streaming music; it won't let you download the actual music file, nor will it allow you to burn tracks with your PC or Mac. To get this increased functionality, you'll have to pay an additional (and, as yet, undisclosed) monthly fee. However, when the PressPlay service was launched in the United States a few months ago, four tiered price plans were announced.
But not only PressPlay is launching a digital music subscription service. Also a company called MoonTaxi wants their share of the market. They will be launching a service that should have lower and more transparent fees.
A Toronto-based startup called Moontaxi thinks it has the answer to PressPlay's complex model of counting tracks. When Moontaxi's service launches next month, Co-CEO Derek van der Plaat says it will charge only $5.99 per month for unlimited access to streamed music in a variety of genres. |
Initially launching with classical and jazz music (and adding additional genres at a later date), Moontaxi's streams "will provide three personalized music channels in which individual tracks are randomly presented to listeners," explains van der Plaat.
And there is a lot more about these initiatives, read everything on CanadaComputes.com.
Source: Canadacomputes.com
