Eliot Van Buskirk dreams of any music anytime anywhere in Celestial Jukebox Falls to Earth in Wired. His ideal service is an unlimited music service that can be downloaded to your device of choice. He covers the state of technology today. Cell phone are getting close. Satellite radio has parts of this.

One area he avoids - P2P. Mobile P2P services will likely be developed that fill this need.

The newest possibility he covers is WiFi. He writes:

"There's another way to get there: by combining an internet-based subscription service with Wi-Fi wirelessly completing the so-called "last mile of service" (well, in this case more like the last 50 feet or so). At least two companies have incorporated Wi-Fi into release or pre-release MP3 player units: MusicGremlin and SoniqCast."

"The SoniqCast devices I tested used their Wi-Fi connections to grab music from your PC, but MusicGremlin announced plans at CES earlier this year for a subscription service that'd let you download any of 1.5 million tracks (anything in MusicNet's catalog) onto one of its 8-GB MP3 players using Wi-Fi."

"A Wi-Fi-enabled subscription service would lead to all sorts of impulse listening. While reading a music magazine in bed, you could queue up downloads of the artists mentioned without getting up. Or if a friend tells you about a band they think you'll like, you could listen to it on the way home (provided there's some Wi-Fi nearby, as is increasingly the case)."

The celestial jukebox, which will famously follow you around reacting to your every musical whim, could be enabled by mere earthbound internet cables and Wi-Fi hot spots."

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