"Fully interactive radio" enables anyone to create a Web-based music station with built-in radio by ranking and reviewing their personal song picks. Users accessing the "stations" can view upcoming songs, play, replay, reorder and skip songs at their discretion using their computer's MP3 player.
A built-in e-mail feature also gives the "station creator" the ability to make songs available for rapid communication and sharing among their audiences and encourages community-building online as well as offline.
"Stations is an exciting and free feature that propels radio to the next dimension," said Michael Robertson, chairman and chief executive officer of MP3.com. "This level of control has never been accessible to anyone, anywhere. Station creators can build a quality music destination for fans all over the world who share their interests. This fully interactive radio feature is the first of many interactive user controlled applications and represents one of the many ways we are leading the way as a music service provider.
MP3.com users built nearly 500 station pages when the service was quietly
launched on November 23. So far approximately 4,000 interactive radio
stations have been created. Current and new users
can register to create their own radio station at www.mp3.com/stations.












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