Carphone Warehouse’s new music streaming service ‘Music Anywhere’ puts your song libraries in the cloud.

The new service allows users to access their entire collections whenever, wherever, regardless of the capacity of their MP3 player.

Using Catch Media’s Play Anywhere platform, the service scans users’ collections and matches it up with its own database. A digital copy of a track that can’t be found in the database is automatically created and added to the user’s online account.

The move represents a considerable challenge to existing web-based streaming services such as Spotify. The mobile phone provider offers Music Anywhere for a license fee of £29.99 a year, making it considerably cheaper than Spotify’s monthly subscription fee of £9.99.

Welcomed by music industry executives, the new service offers yet another tool to listen to music legally online. For the moment, the service is limited to smartphones.

Source: The Guardian