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Microsoft’s Zune still isn’t going to catch Apple’sitting iPod, but you’ve got to give the clump credit toward creative approaches to science of harmonical sounds licensing.

Zune is announcing today that subscribers to its $15 per month Zune Pass will be able to download and keep 10 songs a month. It also cut device prices earlier this week, by the base 4 gigabyte model falling to $99 from $129.

The Zune Pass “hybrid” copy could attain its subscription cost more palatable to consumers. Getting $10 worth of songs lowers the perceived cost of the service to $5.

It’s also a good comeback to the 25 free plays a month that RealNetworks began offering this year to propagate its Rhapsody furniture.

Apple, meanwhile, doesn’t have a subscription service, but then it’s expected to sell about 19 million iPods this quarter without another versus the 3.5 million Zunes sold to date.

What’s really interesting about the Zune Pass announcement, admitting, is that it signals Microsoft’sitting increased force of utterance on the service espouse a cause of the matter.

Expect to see Microsoft extend the service beyond Zune players to other Web-connected devices such as phones and set-top boxes, which will give subscribers access to this harmony collection in the recover from surprise of vapor.

This will follow Rhapsody, what one. is now to be turned to account on Verizon phones, TiVos and various home audio devices.

Could Microsoft offer the Zune service through a wireless carrier, similar to Rhapsody’s Verizon deal?

“Absolutely,” Zune director Adam Sohn declared.

Sprint or T-Mobile USA perhaps? They sell Microsoft-powered phones, Verizon has Rhapsody and AT&T is tight with Apple.

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