Charlie Sorrel
Gear

Yahoo Launches WiFi DAP: Direct Music Downloads

If you go out of range while music is coming in it pops up a warning, switches you to the locally stored library and then picks up again when it finds a network.... But he redeemed himself with some Zune-dissing: "My sixteen year-old daughter has a Zune, goes to a high school with 3700 kids, and has never once encountered another person with a Zune, shared music, or even used the Wifi functionality on the device.

Sansayahoo 1This is the one we have all been waiting for. Unlimited music downloads over Wifi, straight to the device. The service works only with the Sandisk Sansa Connect but from first looks seems to offer a pretty integrated experience. It automatically syncs with your Yahoo Music Jukebox, streams via Launchcast and pulls in photos from Flickr.

Ian Rogers of Yahoo gives an in depth rundown today on the YMusic blog, with some good examples of usage. He listens to

the Launchcast stream and when he hears something he likes, hits download to grab the whole album. If you go out of range while music is coming in it pops up a warning, switches you to the locally stored library and then picks up again when it finds a network. As for 'squirting', You can share music over Messenger.

Despite all these goodies, he couldn't help a dirty little dig at iPod owners, again calling us all thieves:

"[...] we all know iPods are mostly full of not-paid-for MP3s".

But he redeemed himself with some Zune-dissing:

"My sixteen year-old daughter has a Zune, goes to a high school with 3700 kids, and has never once encountered another person with a Zune, shared music, or even used the Wifi functionality on the device. Welcome to the social? It’s 2007. How about welcome to the Internet. Duh."

The box will cost you around $250 and the service is $12 per month, although there is a Mastercard promotion that brings it down to $6.

Wifi-Enabled SanDisk Sansa Connect Features Yahoo! Music Unlimited, LAUNCHcast, Messenger, and Flickr [YMusic via TechCrunch]