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Just signed up for a free 1 month trial for the new Sky Songs service as I am a Sky Broadband customer and it is an offer they have at the minute.  Seem to have quite an ok choice of albums and the one I downloaded is coming up in iTunes as 320kbps!  Similar to 7digital they have a downloader app but this pops them into iTunes when they have finished.  Haven't really tried the streaming option yet but at first glance Spotify and Lastfm seem more intuitive.

Figure a bit more competition wont do any harm in the digital music sector

Ben. 

Hi Ben, please keep posting back with your impressions of Sky Songs. I posted a thread when its arrival was announced in the What Hifi news section and it died a death after about three replies. I wonder if Sky and their otherwise dominance in the media market means that this product is going to be ignored almost on principle.

idc:

I wonder if Sky and their otherwise dominance in the media market means that this product is going to be ignored almost on principle.

That's certainly the line i'll be following.

I'm having a snoop but got to say Im not all that impressed with the service in general.  The one feature that I do like which admittedly is a little lame is the recommendations.  Now, I know Napster and Spotify have these but it genuinely tossed up some Alternative music from new acts I havent even heard of which is a genuie novelty for me considering I probably own or know or 99% of "alternative" music released in the past decade or so.

If you dont already subscribe to a service I think there could be a lot to like here but as I currently subscribe to both Napster and Spotify I see nothing to make me want to cancel one or both of these in favour of Sky Songs.  What i will say is that its UI seems to meld Napster and Spotify which is no bad thing.  I mentioned on another thread that I thought Spotify excelled at playlist creation and Napster excelled at listening to albums and your library easily.  Sky songs seems to cater for both a little better in my opinion.

 Looking forward to what apple eventually offers.