Digital Home Thoughts: HP Wants a Piece of the Music Pie

"The service, called MusicStation Desktop, will be available free for two weeks to customers buying the company's Pavilion, Compaq Presario and HP Envy models. After that, it will cost €9.99 per month."

While I welcome competitors to the iTunes empire, I have doubts as to whether this venture will be successful. Offering a subscription based setup, along with free DRM-free mp3s is tempting, however, there is no mention about whether MusicStation will allow music to be played (beyond the mp3s) on other devices. iTunes has a great setup that allows multi-device playback depending on the consumer's preferences, and in order for HP's attempt to at least have a chance, it will need to be a service that can be used on the go on top of being chained to the computer. I am fairly sure that I will not be subscribing to this service if it does not. Anyone willing to try out yet another music service?