Just got an email with a cracking idea in it regarding music downloads - does it already exist?

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Your in car system has mobile broadband facility. You hear a track on the radio that you like and hit the download button. Your system identifies the tag the broadcast is carrying, connects to your mobile broadband and downloads the track from your chosen site. The site charges your account.</p>

Obviously there would be a monthly chargefor the mobile broadband but I think that could be brought down via some kind of deal with the download sites (bearing in mind the probable substantial rise in sales due to impulse and convenience buying.)</p>

Is this kind of thing already in the pipeline or is it already out there?</p>

 

Why not do it the old way free music for ever

Good stereo radio reception plus stereo sound recorder. Record all you want from any broadcasting source convert to MP3, sorted, all for nowt. (Y) (Y) (Y)

 

Shazam

Not quite the same, but Shazam on the iphone does something similar, so I am sat in your car, hear a song I like, play Shazam, and within 30 seconds it has identified the track and offers me it for 79p from iTunes. Within a couple of minutes of hearing the track for the first time it's on my ipod.

 

Not far off.

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Presumably it's best to have unlimited internet on your phone, does the network charge for the downloads?</p>

 

Not quite.

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I'm suggesting the track carries an electronic ID and at the press of a single button the system connects and downloads it - maybe straight to your attached iPod. The idea is that it can be done simply and automatically by someone who's driving - conveniently, safely and on impulse. </p>

 

TrackID on the Sony Ericsson phones.

Does pretty much the same thing.

 

Microsoft would come after you

With this patent
http://www.google.com/patents?id=crt7AAAAEBAJ&dq=6,202,008

 

That's rubbish.

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Wireless network connected to the computer via bus?! You'd never get it down your drive.</p>