Melodeo Launches nuTsie: Stream your iTunes to your phone
June 5th, 2007 by Casey
Melodeo is proud announce a new mobile and web service called nuTsie beta, this currently FREE mobile music service allows consumers to get their entire iTunes library on their mobile phone. The nuTsie free public beta allows anyone to easily shuffle through all of their iTunes music and playlists in hi-fi quality on their mobile phone or on the Web.
Here is a short video Melodeo has produced that explains nuTsie.
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nuTsie allows users to access all of their favorite iTunes music on a wide variety of today’s most popular phone models, with no expensive device upgrade required.
Typically, when you buy a song on iTunes, it can be played only on an iTunes device, such as an iPod or a cellphone that comes loaded with iTunes (and only a few such devices exist). With nuTsie, you are shifting only your playlist — and not the music tracks themselves — from iTunes to your cellphone, allowing you to get around DRM issues. The music streams from Melodeo’s servers. In essence, you are listening to Melodeo’s copy of the song, not the encrypted one you bought from iTunes.nuTsie does not download actual iTunes song files, so there are no storage issues, sideloading hassles or piracy worries. Instead, nuTsie works by referencing a consumer’s iTunes library and playlists and then making the same track titles available for streaming from nuTsie’s servers via the Web and mobile phone.
nuTsie combines Melodeo’s innovative streaming music technology with an enhanced “radio rules” shuffle algorithm that ensures artists, record labels and music publishers are paid for every use of a song. nuTsie is also the only non-Apple music service to play “Fair Play” music purchased by download from iTunes.
The nuTsie service can also be accessed via a browser on any Web-connected computer. Consumers can listen to their iTunes music just about anytime and anywhere with nuTsie.