finetunes press release | 20.10.2009

Hamburg-based digital distributor and service provider finetunes has signed a comprehensive cooperation deal with US-based mobile media service, Didiom. With immediate effect, users of the Didiom service are able to purchase songs by top-class artists such as Moderat, Cassius, Lee Everton and from world-respected labels such as Pacha Recordings, Honest Jon's and Asphalt Tango.

Didiom is a groundbreaking service which offers a unique combination of allowing users to stream their own music to mobile phone, combined with an on-device download store. The Didiom application scans the user's computer for music and playlists, streaming the content to the user's mobile phone via a secure connection. In addition, the Didiom download store offers more than 1.5 million songs as MP3 downloads to mobile and to the computer. With its innovative price structure, the Didiom store is the only service in the world that allows people to name their own price for music downloads. The application is available for free from BlackBerry's app store.

Tom Günther, Head of Legal and Business Affairs, finetunes: "We're very happy to be working with Didiom. The application is innovative and also very user-friendly. We're excited to be opening up new mobile markets together with Didiom."

Ran Assaf, CEO, Didiom: "We're delighted to join forces with Germany's most prominent digital music distributor. finetunes has an extensive and diverse catalogue with a remarkable spectrum of artists ranging from music legends such as Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Edith Piaf, and Miles Davis to Grammy Award winners such as Van Morrison, Tito Puente, Johnny Cash, B.B. King, and Barry White. Didiom makes it incredibly easy now for millions of BlackBerry and Windows Mobile phone users to explore the finetunes catalogue and download the music they like - wherever, whenever, at truly competitive prices."

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