(Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın) - MTV Networks and RealNetworks will merge their online digital music stores in the latest attempt to reduce Apple's hold on the music download market the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday morning.
MTV has scheduled a news conference concerning online music for 11:00 AM ET Tuesday but company representatives declined to comment on the Journal's report which cited unnamed sources.
Verizon Wireless and Vodafone Group will distribute the new alliance's :-):-):-):-):-):-):-) for mobile devices the paper reported.
MTV Networks owned by Viacom already runs Urge its own music download service.:-)Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın which launched in May 2006. RealNetworks runs Rhapsody a subscription service which offers access to its entire catalog for a monthly fee and also sells individual songs.
It was unclear what changes would be made to the Urge or Rhapsody services both of which were still running on Tuesday morning.
In other online music news Wal-Mart said it will sell MP3s on its Web site free of DRM (digital rights management) technology which means tracks should play on competing multimedia players such as the iPod and Microsoft's Zune.
Wal-Mart will continue to sell songs in Windows Media Audio Microsoft's proprietary format. That format will be cheaper at $.88 per track but encoded at 128Kbps. MP3s will be better quality at 256Kbps.
Pricing for the higher-quality MP3s will be $.94 per track or $9.22 per album Wal-Mart said. Music will come from major labels including Universal Music Group and EMI Group with artists including The Rolling Stones and Coldplay Wal-Mart said.


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