Mewbox music service for Archos Android is better than iTunes
Posted by Charbax on September 17th, 2009
Here is a screenshot of how Mewbox is going to look like on the Archos Android 5 Internet Tablet range of products:
The Archos Android series in the European Union is launching with the Mewbox music service, which will provide access to 4 million songs from all the major and independent record labels. It is the first DRM-free music download/streaming service for Android in Europe and has a custom user interface which makes full use of the Archos 5 Internet Tablet’s high-resolution touch screen.
I posted some requests for legal Android Music distribution systems in the forum: http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?p=164297#p164297
Though, until all the record labels allow for affordable DRM-free subscription services in addition to on-demand downloading and streaming music systems like Mewbox, then I guess we can at least look forward to have just as completely featured access to an on-demand music service on the new Archos Android products, thanks to Mewbox providing a nice high resolution interface for their legal music store. Now all that Archos needs to disrupt Apple’s monopolistic lock-down through the closed proprietary scheme in ipod/iphone/itunes, would be to make the Archos 5 Internet Tablet be recognized to iTunes as an ipod by doing the same trick as Palm when in Windows Device mode (or in some third “iTunes USB connection mode”), which would then allow users of the iTunes software to still synchronize their non-DRM music from iTunes.
Find more informations about Mewbox for Archos Android at:
http://www.mewbox.com/
http://twitter.com/mewbox
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mewbox/138221254618
This service was first discovered in the forum in this thread: http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=25558