The service is currently in beta and rumoured to have more than 1 million tracks in DRM-free format from all the majors, and offers preview and playlist functions. Of course the MSN music service will integrate the current MSN Music channel’s editorial content.

Users can buy credits with a credit card for £7.99 ($13.20). One credit buys one tracks and ten credits is equal to one album.

Free streaming is also part of the service, although it is currently limited to invite-only as part of a series of promotions on the MSN Web site. Reports in the summer suggested that streaming would be a key element of the new MSN digital music offering.

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You have a battery of switches to adjust tempo, mood, instruments etc. which the program uses to create music that is as bland as it is unoriginal. It’s as though someone at Redmond distilled Mike Flowers Pops to remove all the personality, and then digitised it. There’s a huge swathe of ‘remix’ videos up on YouTube, but my personal favourite is the Weezer – Buddy Holly remix. It’s the only one that I could actually listen to all the way through.

For sheer comedy value, none of the remixed songs beats the advert that supports the program. It’s literally incredible. This has been produced by a company with revenues of $60 BILLION dollars! How can they possibly think it’s ok to release utter guff like this? How did they spend the marketing budget, farming gold on WOW or something?

“I don’t want to write another boring love song”, yes… It’s much easier to have a robot do it for you. I get the feeling that having failed to make anything happen with their Pandora project, they’re looking around for other quick ways to offset all the money they spent on researching it. Thanks guys, good customer service – I wonder if there are any jobs going at Google? You remember, those guys who took your office software, improved it and made it free?

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