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Digital Music Business Growing

The business of MP3`s is a growing industry, with more and more competitors joining in every year. It all began when the now mega-business Apple, released iTunes for use with it`s incredibly popular iPod. Competition in the iTune business is constantly appearing, trying to convince consumers to use cheaper methods of finding and downloading the music they love to listen to. Ripshark, LLC today announced an agreement with MP3tunes to offer its CD-to-MP3 conversion customers online music lockers powered by MP3tunes? Oboe.

The unique add-on service contributes to an end-to-end solution that allows music lovers to seamlessly convert their CD collections into MP3 libraries and then access them online for their personal enjoyment from virtually anywhere. "Ripshark?s professional CD-to-MP3 conversion services and MP3tune?s Oboe online storage and delivery technology represent the ?chocolate and peanut butter? of the digital music revolution,? said Adam Sellke, Founder and President of Ripshark. ?Each is great on its own, but together, they make for something really special."

As a convenient, economical choice for Ripshark`s customers, the Oboe music locker is available immediately at www.ripshark.com for just $39.95 per year. In addition to online access to their complete digital music collection, Oboe users enjoy unlimited storage with no extra bandwidth charges, plus Macintosh, Microsoft Windows or Linux software for easy one-button syncing. The Oboe locker is accessible for streaming music through any web browser, as well as through popular media players such as Winamp and iTunes. With their entire song collections safe online, Ripshark customers can listen to their music from any device with an Internet connection as well as sync their songs to each computer and device they own.