p2pnet.net News:- XM Satellite Radio, which recently caught the public eye Big Time thanks to Canada’s Scott MacLean, plans to launch an online music service next month.

XM Radio Online subscribers will be able to listen to XM commercial-free music channels "and a variety of other XM content, including The Bob Edwards Show," online for $7.99 a month.

Existing subscribers will get a discounted rate at $3.99 a month, says the company.

To the RIAA’s (Recording Industry Association of America) extreme discomfort, MacLean’s TimeTrax records individual mp3s, each tagged with the artist and song name and with the ID3 written with the same information, straight to PCs in WAV or mp3 format from XM Satellite Radio’s PCR receiver.

"Leave TimeTrax recording overnight, and in the morning you will end up with a directory full of several hundred mp3 files, each perfectly cut and edited," says MacLeanon his site.

XM is running the launch with a Dell computer promo.

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See:-

extreme discomfort - XM satellite app raises ire, p2pnet, August 28, 2004

Site - TimeTrax

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