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PlayNow Arena set to launch on Monday!
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post 2008-08-22 15:04
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According to Danish and Swedish mobile magazine Mobil, Sony Ericsson's long awaited PlayNow Arena service will launch in Nordic countries this Monday. The service has been postponed quite some time, but it should be ready on Monday. The prime focus of the PlayNow Arena store will naturally be music, and Sony Ericsson will have one million songs ready for customers in the Nordic countries on Monday, with no less than four million songs in the pipeline. The best part, however, is that all the songs will be free of any DRM protection, so you can copy your songs unrestrictedly, which can be very useful if you get a new phone, computer, etc.

Sony Ericsson hopes that TrackID is going to attract tons of people to the PlayNow Arena store. The free TrackID service is used more than 200,000 times a day, which should provide a nice foundation for the store.

The songs downloaded from PlayNow Arena will cost between £0.80 - £1 per song. If you choose to download from your phone, the download will be a 1.5 megabyte song, encoded in eAAC+ at 48 Kbps, which sounds a whole lot better than you might think. If you use the computer client, you'll get larger MP3 files encoded at 320 Kbps.

The PlayNow Arena service will of course not be all about music - you can download and buy games from here as well. Most games will go for about £4, but quite a few are said to be free, which is lovely!

PlayNow Arena is expected to be available for most phones newer than K800, so if your Sony Ericsson phone is a year or two old, you should be covered. If your phone, however, is not supported, you can use the PC client, and then transfer it to your phone.

You can check out many pictures of the service at this link.

Via: Mobil.se & Mobil.nu

From the Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog:
http://blog.se-nse.net/2008/08/22/playnow-...unch-on-monday/.


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Kate Perrys song for 120kr well thats a overkill


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I read 1 million at launch then 4 million to be added later, totalling 5 million.
Not 4 million total.
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Me neither. To me it seems that while it's good that they improve things like this it's something that will not be appreciated very much and I would rather see improved A200 stability for example


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Yeah definitely. My K850 doesn't seem to have stability problems, music playback in the media player is laggy though. But my W910i certainly had issues with stability.

Mizzle has a lovely "masculine" theme there wink.gif

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post 2008-08-24 21:10
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Will anyone actually use it though?

Who knows.

If you do want to buy from a service like this, it does seem to be pretty decent - 320kbps mp3 is a lot better than the crap you get from iTunes for example.
But, the problem will be that they're pretty late to the game, there's already a lot of competition out there.
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Well I know I dont account for everyone, but I just use the first album I find on the net if im downloading some music, I never look for particular quality and its been perfectly adicuate for me, so long as my iTunes is tidy its fine!
Also seeing as half the people that listen to music or buy music online dont have any idea of what quality the site they are using uses because they arnt tech-geeks like us lot wink.gif.


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The thing is, 320kbps takes up a lot of space. For a phone, that might be too much. For my HD, it's nothing.


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There's a lot of people out there who take audio quality seriously - some of whom will not even touch digital music and a lot more besides won't touch lossy codecs such as mp3.
But even amongst those of us who are a little more lax with our standards, iTunes falls far short.

edit: 320kbps is nothing.
WAV takes up a lot of space, anything smaller than that is ok wink.gif

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