Best Buy to launch music service with Real, Sandisk

Yinka Adegoke posted an item today on Reuters indicating that Best Buy Co. Inc. aims to take digital music to a wider audience by introducing a music player and subscription service with partners SanDisk Corp. and RealNetworks Inc..

Best Buy, the top U.S. consumer electronics retail chain, is hoping to use the broad reach of its stores to compete with Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod music player and iTunes digital download store.

The company said it would use Real's Rhapsody subscription service, hand-in-hand with a new line of SanDisk Sansa digital music players, much in the way that iPods work with iTunes.

Source: Reuters.com