Recently, I got a HTC Hero. It’s a beautiful smart phone. I managed to get my contract with unlimited data (well, 750Mb fair usage) and that’s made me start thinking more about just storing my media online, and streaming it when I need it. Things will obviously be cached, so I figure my album or two shouldn’t take me too close to that.

I think it’d be fun and useful to recreate the iTunes experience, just for a mobile device in an online environment (browser-based). Different to Spotify because I already own the media, and don’t want to pay a monthly fee. It’d just be my personal use of DRM-free media I have. My library would not be publicly available, or usable by other users.

I’m not too sure on how I could prove that the user owns the song though, and didn’t just illegally download it before uploading it. If this were ever to be a popular service, I’d have to have lawyers and people look into that. Meanwhile, it’ll just be me using it and a few close friends so I can make sure none of them are breaking any copyright.

Not just music media though – podcasts too. They could just be steamed from the server they come from. The service would have to be able to remember where I left off listening to the podcast though, since I rarely finish Geekbox in one sitting for instance.

Update: I found Google Listen! It seems a bit odd at the moment, but I’m sure that’s just me getting used to it. I wish it had a web interface though…