MixRadio
Nokia Music Store is part of the Ovi[1] services portal from Nokia. It was launched on August 29, 2007[2]. The idea behind the store is to provide to all Nokia MP3 capable mobile users a music store on the phone as on the PC.
The Nokia Music Store officially opened in the UK on October 1, 2007 with offering of music from SonyBMG, Universal Music, EMI and Warner Music Group, as well as others. The preferred music file format used by the store is WMA with DRM protection and with an encoding of 192 Kbps[3].
Nokia Music Software
Nokia Music Store has its own software to serve as front gate of the store on the PC and on the phones. It is called Nokia Ovi Player, previously was Nokia Music Player.
Comes With Music
In October 2008, Nokia announced the Nokia 5800, a direct competitor to the iPhone and with it the service Comes With Music[4], which consists of a year of free music downloads included in the price of the phone. This service is optional to the carriers.
Within the box of the phone there is a card with an ID that will be linked to the PC (MAC address) and mobile phone (IMEI), so that PC and mobile phone have unlimited music downloads for over a year.
The service has DRM files that cannot be burned onto CDs but only played from the phone. In case the user wants to burn the song, they have to buy it from the store.
In September 2010 the service changed name to "Unlimited Music Downloads"
Streaming
Nokia Music Store has a streaming service that costs €10 per month but the service is not available in all countries.
Availability
As of August 5, 2009, the store is available in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.
The service Comes With Music is not available in all the stores.