Digital

HP developing music service

By | Published on Tuesday 19 April 2011

HP

Hewlett-Packard is reportedly planning to launch a digital locker and streaming music service, details of which have surfaced on smartphone website PreCentral, which somehow got its hands on an internal PowerPoint presentation from the tech firm.

It is thought that HP’s digital entertainment platform, which will also offer movies, will let users store their digital content on a remote server and stream it back to any net connected device, ie the same as Amazon’s recently launched locker service, and similar to those reportedly being planned by Apple and Google.

One USP the HP service may offer is that it will work out what tracks a user listens to most often, and then store copies of those songs on a user’s portable devices as well as the central server, thus reducing the bandwidth implications of accessing music via the service.

No word on possible timelines for all this, nor whether HP plan to get the digital locker licensed by the music companies, or go the Amazon route and claim no such licence is required.



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