Linksys and Yahoo! Music team for music distribution

Stuart Corner
Monday, 30 January 2006 07:59

Business IT - Technology

Cisco subsidiary Linksys and Yahoo! Music are to work together to develop ways to enable music downloaded to a PC to be more easily moved to other devices within the home.

The Yahoo! Music Engine integrated with the Linksys Wireless-G Music Bridge (WMB54G)will be the first product resulting from this relationship.

Linksys and Yahoo! have developed a new plug-in which will be integrated into Yahoo! Music engine and the Linksys Wireless-G Music Bridge. It will enable users to stream music directly to a home stereo "with the click of a button on the Yahoo! Music Engine interface".

The free Yahoo! Music Engine provides users the ability to play and save songs, share music using Yahoo! Messenger, transfer music to compatible portable devices, access pre-programmed radio stations, burn CDs, create play lists etc. With the addition of the Yahoo! Music Unlimited subscription service, Yahoo! Music Engine users can build music libraries from a catalogue of over a million songs, access personalised music recommendations, and over 100 customisable and commercial free radio stations.

No information on availability in Australia was available at press time.