Thursday, March 4, 2004
Universal Builds Massive Music Archive
Posted by Kent Pribbernow in "NEWS" @ 10:00 AM
"Universal Music Group's everywhere-other-than-the-US operation, Universal Music International (UMI), today said it had finally digitised around 300,000 songs from 25,000 albums from its European catalogue. That means they are all now available to "online retailers and distributors" in Europe, which of course actually means they're available to O2, currently Europe's only major music download service."
The main implication of this story is that legal music download services can tap into this new music library. Apple's iTunes Music Store already boasts 500k tracks, this should give the service a quite a boost. There are still many albums and artists which are unavailable on legal download sites, such as the Beatles and Foo Fighters.
The main implication of this story is that legal music download services can tap into this new music library. Apple's iTunes Music Store already boasts 500k tracks, this should give the service a quite a boost. There are still many albums and artists which are unavailable on legal download sites, such as the Beatles and Foo Fighters.
