Imeem Mobile Reaches One Millionth Install (Imeem Blog)


Imeem's iPhone App


Imeem, perhaps best known for offering free (ad backed) on-demand online music streaming from the four major labels, has followed up the mobile version of the service it created for the G1 Android phone on T-Mobile with a new iPhone app, which will become available in Apple’s App Store May 20.


Imeem's Android App


According to Imeem, the app will allow fans to create custom playlists, get personalized music recommendations and download songs from iTunes. It also includes MyMusic, a feature that lets users browse and stream any of the 20,000 songs imeem allows them to upload to their imeem profile via the iPhone. That’s about 80 GB of music accessible from the iPhone without having to store any of it directly on the phone, which only has between 8-16 GB of capacity.

Imeem’s app offers two key elements: a radio function that streams songs from a given artist mixed with similar fare, and a “My Music” section that allows streaming access to a user’s own library of uploaded songs. The latter essentially expands the music storage capacity of the iPhone, with one catch: Users must pay for a storage locker of more than 100 songs. The iPhone’s relatively limited storage capacity (up to 16MGB, including apps and other software besides music files) isn’t enough for most serious music fans, so Imeem is providing an avenue to iPod-like capacity via a cloud-based subscription service, so that listeners don’t have to carry a second piece of hardware.

The app itself will be free to download, and just like the Android version will be fully supported with advertising, while the Imeem library of up to 20,000 songs will cost via subscription plans that range from about $30 to $100 annually.

At launch, it will not have a brand sponsor—as the Android app did in Kia—but Imeem has offered that it is in talks with several companies now and expects to announce something soon.


source/credits:
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gigaom.com

Related:
WIRED on how the Imeem app overcomes the iPhone's storage limitations

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