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- This article is about music on mobile devices, for the musical form see aleatoric music.
Mobile music is music, which is downloaded or streamed to mobile phones and played by mobile phones. Although many phones play music as ringtones, true "music phones" generally allow users to stream music or download music files over the internet via a WiFI connection or 3G cell phone connection. Music phones are also able to import audio files from their PCs. The case of mobile music being stored within the memory of the mobile phone is the case similar to traditional business models in the music industry. It support 2 variants: 1) the user can purchase the music for outright ownership; or 2)access entire libraries of music via a subscription model (the music files are then available as long as the subscription is active).
[edit] Truetones
While ringtones do not include artists voices, truetones, chaku-uta and chaku-uta full are recordings of artists' interpretation of music. Distributing them usually requires the agreement of record labels and other owners of artists rights.
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