Reply #3: I have iPod touch... [View All]

It has several audio based apps, like Pandora, and White Noise, and streaming radio that are great, except you can't run them in the background and run other apps. That should be a firmware fix, I'd think, but maybe there's not quite enough RAM in these things to allow open multi-tasking like that. But then again, you can run iTunes in the background generally, so why not?

I guess that would be an overall FAIL or at least shortcoming.

I'm guessing your classical music thing won't let you select a specific song as that's probably a different music license and would cost a lot more. Like Pandora can stream a TYPE of music, but you can't request a specific song at a specific time (and you can't repeat a song). Or there's an online station I listen to ( www.hidebound.com ) that will let you make a request, and will play it, but it has to delay the playing for one hour. I guess it's the difference between something being "on demand" that is the issue.

They're advertising this new music player that plays songs off of little memory chips, and you get like 1000 songs for $20 or so... I'm betting that's the same deal. As long as the user doesn't control the sequence, or can repeat songs, or play on demand, they can treat it as a radio license rather than an ownership license.