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Other PDAs > News > nuTsie Brings iTunes to Alltel Phones
By James Alan Miller September 24, 2008
Alltel has launched a service, nuTsie (by Melodeo), enabling users to listen to music from their iTunes libraries. Through the application, nuTsie users can also listen to music recommendations based on their playlists.
The service is available for 10 Alltel handsets, including the MOTORAZR V3m and V3c, the MOTOKRZR K1m, the MOTORAZR2 V9m and the MOTOROKR Z6m. Additional handsets include the LG AX565, The Wave by LG, the LG AX8600, Samsung Muse, the Alltel Hue by Samsung and The Wafer by Samsung. Alltel plans to support additional phones with nuTsie in the coming months.
NutSie costs $4.99 a month or $19.99 for one year.
With nuTsie, you are not actually accessing your iTunes collection—directly or by uploading tracks to Melodeo's servers. Instead, Melodeo streams music from its own music catalog to users' supported devices, apparently avoiding legal potential legal problems. NuTsie matches its music catalog to the iTunes songs and playlits you want to access and share with others.
So, in actuality, nuTsie works more like a highly-personalized Internet radio service than anything else.
If nuTsie doesn't have a song in its collection, it initiates the process of acquiring that song or album. You can also send Melodeo the name of the artist, album and any other relevant information of a track you can think of to help nuTsie obtain missing songs. Melodeio even appreciates it if you can include info on where nuTsie can obtain an officially published version of the CD in question.
Melodio pays artists and labels a royalty each time a song is played, as determined by rules governing the playback of Internet radio.
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