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Alltel launches nuTsie to take iTunes mobile

by Chris Ziegler posted Sep 24th 2008 @ 5:01PM

We'd always taken nuTsie to be an indie app that was going to get most of its traction outside the surly bonds of a corporate partnership, but color us totally wrong. Alltel has announced that Melodeo's iTunes companion app is now available on eleven of its handsets (with more to come in the coming months), offering users of non-iTunes-friendly phones a creative way to get access to their playlists on the go. nuTsie works not by downloading your own tracks, but by matching the names of the songs in your playlists to those in its own database and loading the actual music from its servers -- that way, not only do you get access to your stuff, but also to friends' playlists and those cobbled together by nuTsie's own "experts." It'll run you $4.99 a month or $19.99 a year, and it's available now.

iTunes on your (non-iPhone) phone: nuTsie reviewed

by Chris Ziegler posted Jun 14th 2007 @ 4:58AM

Alright, alright, let's move past the ROKR and V3i and start looking at some more creative ways to shoehorn iTunes onto our phones, mkay? (And no, not the iPhone either -- we said "creative.") Enter "nuTsie," a music client that streams your iTunes library not by actually streaming your media -- that'd be pretty tricky with the DRM and all -- but by reading the names of your songs and matching them to tunes on nuTsie's server. According to LAPTOP Mag's testing, performance is solid (and super quick over a 3G connection) but there are a handful of bummers; some of the tested phones couldn't rock nuTsie and A2DP simultaneously, and worse yet, some clamshells closed the app when the flip was closed. The list of supported devices is pretty anemic at the moment, but it's still in beta so we might see beefier compatibility by the time 1.0 rolls around.