Didiom: Music for Mobile Devices

[Darius Wey]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.didiom.com/' target='_blank'>http://www.didiom.com/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Introducing Didiom - a free and fun way to search, sample, buy and download music - wherever, whenever, at truly competitive prices. What's more, you can also place bids for the music you want and share individual song picks with friends and family - right from your wireless. Because our participating music stores already have vast music libraries, there was no need to build our own. And because there's a growing number of capable wireless devices and high-speed wireless networks out there, we didn't have to build any of those either. This represents a significant savings we pass on to our users. You only pay for the songs you download. Rather than maintaining our own giant music library, Didiom takes the music request you send to us from your wireless, searches participating online music stores, tells you what we find, and quickly delivers the music files over the air once you've purchased them. And because Didiom is currently designed to work on Windows Mobile wireless devices that utilize high-speed networks such as 3G and Wi-Fi, you use your wireless and your internet access at your convenience. Once you've downloaded Didiom's sleek application for your Windows Mobile wireless, you're ready to explore the world's bustling mobile music marketplace through a handful of intuitive icons. And when you're ready to download music, you can set up a free Didiom account - if you haven't already. There are never any memebership or service fees, and you only pay for the music you download. That's Didiom for you."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wey-20070204-didiom.jpg" /><br /><br />A New York-based company known as Didiom has just launched a self-titled free-to-use service that taps into a number of participating music stores (selection is a little thin at the moment) and allows you to preview, purchase, and send music from your Windows Mobile-based device. Content is delivered in MP3, WMA, or WMA Pro, with the wireless version at 64kbps and the PC version at 128kbps to 320kbps (you have the option of buying one or both versions at the checkout). Because the service is hot off the press, there are a couple of special promotions to help get you started. If you're one of the first 1000 users to register an account, you'll be given a coupon code for a free music download. Additionally, if you purchase ten tracks, you'll get one free. Both promotions end on May 1.<br /><br />All in all, this seems like an interesting service, though it may take a while for it to take off (if at all). If you get around to using it, let us know how it works. Click <a href="http://www.didiom.com/">here</a> to access the official site, or <a href="http://www.didiom.mobi/">here</a> if you're on a mobile device.

[Phillip Dyson]

i just tried it on my TyTN. It didn't like Netfront so I visited through PIE.
I then selected the Cingular 8528 to download the application.

It also comes with a Today plugin in for starting the application.

Its a pretty nice application, although they should do something about the icons. Very small. You're right, the selection is pretty slim to non-existent. I was using ActiveSync so I can't comment as to how fast the search would be over the air. But it seemed pretty quick. Though there weren't many results returned.

[newlaunch]

I have tested the application. very cool. When you type something in the input box, a fly-in window pops up to give you 10 input hints/quick results. When you click the twinkling glass on the right, more results will be returned.

hopefully they can extend their catalog quickly.

[Jerome Carney]

Anybody recognize the headphones in the pic?

[Ed Hansberry]

well, I got to the point it requires the 2.0 compact framework and then closed my browser. I just don't have enough room on my device for a large runtime library. :roll:

[Demens]

When you type something in the input box, a fly-in window pops up to give you 10 input hints/quick results..

Yeah, too bad that atleast i didnt find anything that would give me over 3 results. :roll:

They should team up with emusic.com, it's a very nice place and could use a mobile application like this. (although you could use the emusic site from a mobile browser. And they give the music in non-drm mp3 format.)

[ctmagnus]

Anybody recognize the headphones in the pic?

They're Sennheiser HD 415's - http://www.sennheiser.com/sennheiser/icm_eng.nsf/root/500264.

[newlaunch]

well, I got to the point it requires the 2.0 compact framework and then closed my browser. I just don't have enough room on my device for a large runtime library. :roll:

Currently, most Windows mobile phones provide 64MB RAM. .NetCF 2.0 requires only 2MB runtime memory. Even consider the room used by OS, you should have plenty room to run multiple applications concurrently.

[texasbull]

When you type something in the input box, a fly-in window pops up to give you 10 input hints/quick results..

Yeah, too bad that atleast i didnt find anything that would give me over 3 results. :roll:

They should team up with emusic.com, it's a very nice place and could use a mobile application like this. (although you could use the emusic site from a mobile browser. And they give the music in non-drm mp3 format.)

Yes, you are right, their catalog is small. Hope they can extend their catalog. Very cool interface anyway.

They use WMA Pro for the mobile copy. WMA Pro provides better sound quality in low bit rate. So WMA Pro 64kbps is good for 3G over-the-air music download. Only a small part of their catalog is DRM protected. It seems like whether a track is DRM protected is determind by their store partners.

For PC copy, many tracks in their catalog are in MP3 or non-DRM WMA.

[Ed Hansberry]

well, I got to the point it requires the 2.0 compact framework and then closed my browser. I just don't have enough room on my device for a large runtime library. :roll:

Currently, most Windows mobile phones provide 64MB RAM. .NetCF 2.0 requires only 2MB runtime memory. Even consider the room used by OS, you should have plenty room to run multiple applications concurrently.

I wasn't talking about RAM, but even then, the JasJar barely has enough room to run my basic apps. It is such a cool device hampered by some truly boneheaded design decisions. Yeah, it has 64MB of RAM per the specs, but it only shows some 42+ availalbe for use, and only about 21 is free after a boot.

My storage space is running quite low and I don't have enough room on the device for a large runtime library.

[Jerome Carney]

They're Sennheiser HD 415's - http://www.sennheiser.com/sennheiser/icm_eng.nsf/root/500264.

Thanks for the headsup ... I owned a pair Sennheiser"s a couple of years back and it was a terrific product. But now I'm on the prowl for a high-end BT pair, and that sexxed-up Didiom glamour shot got my hopes up. I guess they must've airbrushed out the 415's cable.

[stllhogan]

I didn't have enough room on my device for the install so I installed it to a storage card. The application seems to freeze a lot on me but I think that's due to the fact I'm running it from a storage card. I like the layout but the lack of selection is a huge disadvantage. It seems to search quickly.