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Article: Any Song, Anytime, Anywhere: Jukeboxes Evolve from CDs to Online MP3s.
- Article from:
- The Online Reporter
- Article date:
- December 6, 2003
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Jukeboxes, the ones in pubs, bars, lounges and malt shops, if there are any such as those left, will soon offer more than two million tracks in MP3 format, at least in the UK. Leisure Link's Inspired Broadcast Network plans to replace 5,000 of its Wurlitzer-brand CD jukeboxes over the next two years with broadband-enabled jukeboxes called "The Music." Leisure Link is Europe's largest operator of coin-operated gaming and entertainment machines. Inspired has targeted 30,000 jukebox and another 60,000 background music systems for installation of "The Music."
"The Music" users will have access via the Web to 2.5 million songs in a database that stores every rock and ...