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by editor@text4price.com @ 07 July 2006 - 14:20:57

Like the track? Want to buy it?

Why wait to get home now you can with DAB

DAB is everywhere these days and we seem to be going a bit DAB crazy. First came DAB radio, then there was talk of trialling TV to mobile via DAB as we reported in one of our earlier postings.

Now the UBC Media Group, one of the UK’s largest independent radio production companies, is testing a download service that allows music downloads via the DAB network.

Heart radio station will be trialling a service next month which will allow digital radio listeners to buy the track they’re currently listening to and have it transferred to a DAB-compatible music player.

Developed by UBC, the new service broadcasts encoded and encrypted music files alongside a radio station’s normal audio stream. These are then cached for a short time in the mobile device and can therefore be bought and kept immediately.

The company said the purchase would also allow the transfer of the song to a user’s web-accessed music library, allowing them to download the song to a PC and to copy it to a DRM-supporting portable player.

Pricing of songs is going to be around £1.25, bought through a pre-pay credit system. The company reckons mobile phones with built-in DAB receivers will appear later this year. The trial, support by the “big four” recording companies (Sony BMG, EMI, Warner and Universal), will run Birmingham next month, initially limited to 100 people.

Of course at the moment the range of DAB radios might not be considered portabel enough so Pure has come up with a handheld PocketDAB which is a rather tiny 123g.

Combined with FM radio and a new colour scheme and a rechargeable battery pack that gives up to 24 hours of playback its a great alternative why not look it up now online and compare prices at text4price.com

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