Hearing about Spotify’s plans for a US launch can get tiring after a while. The company had planned to launch in the US by the end of 2010, and now in 2011 we still don’t have the service. Now the eventual launch seems a bit more plausible now that Spotfiy has one of the big more »

I’ve been saying it was going to happen. ISPs and music labels would come together to create a subscription service to provide music for users to download legally and it seems it has in the UK.

Virgin Media, a UK ISP, just came together with Universal Music Group to form an unlimited music service. Although it was just announced today, the actual launch won’t be until later this year.

Users of the service will be able to both stream and download as much music as they want from UMG’s catalogue. Of course, they first have to join and pay a monthly subscription fee. No word yet on exactly what that fee will be.

They’ve also stated that the music you download is yours to keep, although at this point they don’t specify whether that means everything you have downloaded, or just a set number of tracks per month can be kept. You never know, that might be one way they get you.

Whenever you buy a PC, you probably are annoyed with all the programs that are installed on it; some of which you just leave on because it’s a hassle to remove. Dell seems to think that people would like to have music preloaded on their PC for only a little bit extra.

By teaming up with giant music company UMG, Universal Music Group, Dell has been able to recently load computers with music of your choosing. Starting at $25, you can opt to receive either 50 songs or 100 songs for $45. The nice thing about this pre-loaded music is that it’s basically half the price you would normally pay for the same amount of music, so it’s a pretty sweet deal. All music comes DRM-free and will be able to play as soon as you start up your PC.