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TechCrunch.com

I penned a blog post earlier today covering the potential impact that Amazon’s new digital music locker will have on startups that have been letting people upload their music to the cloud for years (but charge more for it than Amazon does unless they need to store literally tens of thousands of songs).

Digital Music Trends

In this first show some real heavyweights of both Digital Music and the 2.0 space in general.

NPR Music

Having launched in June 2010 in the US, more than 1m users have already signed up to the service. It also has dedicated apps for the iPhone and Android. MSpot CEO Daren Tsui said, “We're making it just as easy to listen to your own music collections as turning on the radio."

CNET UK

US company mSpot is launching its music service in Europe. The cloud service gives you 2GB of space in which to store your songs, and then lets you access them from Web-connected devices.

MusicWeek.com

It allows users to store up to 2GB (approximately 1,600 songs) of music from their own collection in the cloud to be accessed from web-enabled devices on-demand.

Music Ally

US cloud music service mSpot Music has launched a beta version in Europe, having signed up one million users in the States. The free service offers users 2GB of online storage for their music, which can then be accessed from the company’s iPhone and Android apps.

TechCrunch.com

I’m a big fan of music streaming startup Rdio, but one thing it does not do (and probably never will): let me upload the music I already owned before I subscribed to their service so I can stream it on the go (it does have an iTunes syncing feature, but it’s limited to the music they’ve licensed).

Enter mSpot, a music locker service that does exactly that: let people carry around the music they’ve already paid for. And today, mSpot is formally launching in Europe.

Into Tomorrow launched its 16th Year On The Air at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Dave Graveline interviewed Daren Tsui from mSpot.

ReadWriteWeb.com

mSpot, a streaming music and movie service, has just announced its partnership with Google TV to deliver more content to the Internet TV platform. The service offers full-length movie rentals, but it also works between devices so you can pick up where you left off when watching a film on your PC, tablet or mobile phone.

TechCrunch.com

Mobile entertainment startup mSpot is launching its music and movie services on Google TVs today. mSpot’s free music cloud service allows you sync your entire music collection across a variety of devices; and the startup’s movie service streams full-length movie rentals between devices.