Puretracks to bring DRM-free music to Blackberry devices

Posted March 13, 2008 at 12:16 PM by Arnold Zafra

Section: Audio, Portable Audio, Communications, Mobile

Blackberry users will have something to look forward to next month. Puretracks, a Toronto-based digital music company is bringing DRM-free music to blackberry devices via its online music store. The online music store for Blackberry devices was announced during the SWSX meet a couple of days ago.

Although this is something that Blackberry users should be happy about, there are some limitations however to the digital music tracks that Puretracks will be offering starting April 1. First, the Blackberry music store will only be available for RIM’s Pearl, Curve and 8800 series handsets. Second, the Blackberry music store will only be available for the US market, although Puretracks promises to bring it to Canada and other markets soon.

The good news is, the digital music will all be in AAC/AAC+ format which if in terms of file storage requirements is half the file size of MP3 files. So Blackberry users will be able to store more digital music in their handsets. This also answers the airtime costs when downloading music as AAC/AAC+ format digital tracks are faster to download than MP3s. Puretracks is also planning to make the service available to other brands of handsets through Wi-Fi connection and enabling current Blackberry handsets to download digital music via Wi-Fi connections.

Puretracks’ online music store for Blackberry devices will open on April 1. As of today, there was no official announcement yet as to how much will it cost to download one digital music track via the online music store.

Via [Boy Genius Report]