Audials Mobile: Disturbing, yet powerful DRM free music recording platform
February 4, 2009 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Mobile Monitor
A few days ago I was sent a product code that unlocks the full version of Audials Mobile, a S60 based application that seems questionable when it comes to music copyright laws. What it does is rather amazing: it scours the Internet Radio sites for songs and adds them to its database of over 70,000 songs. When you request for a song by typing in an artists’ name or searching for a particular genre, you’re given a listing of the most popular results. Audials allows you to download them. The disturbing thing is that the application is seamless and powerful, it’s scary that something like this exists. So I asked them if its completely legal and let me quote their answer:
Audials Mobile records the files from social web radios – this is legal, but only for private use. This means, you can use the files on your cell phone and copy them to your PC, MP3-player etc., but you are not allowed to share the files.
Audials from jayvee Fernandez on Vimeo.
Songs are recorded into the S60 enabled mobile phone, and can be shared to your collection as MP3’s. There is NO DRM copy protection whatsoever.
Audials Mobile is the only software that allows you to download the best MP3 music the Internet has to offer from the newest generation of social radio stations. It’s like taking candy from a baby! With Audials Mobile, your cell phone will be bursting at the seams with the latest pop, rock, rap, hip hop, metal, electro, trance, techno and music from many other genres as well as the latest hits from the charts. Music recording of radios is legally and free! [AUDIALS SITE]
Scary. Stark. Potent.
I did a quick Google search for Audials but I get no queries from actual blogs or other sites that have reviewed this service. Not sure how new this application for mobile is. Has anyone used this before?
[photo from Audials.com site]
