Mark Mulligan of Forrester, a research firm, says music fans now expect to be able to play their collections of tunes on all sorts of devices.

市场调查公司弗雷斯特的Mark Mulligan称，音乐爱好者如今期望各种设备都可播放自个的收藏曲目。

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As mark Mulligan of Forrester, another market-research firm, points out, it also looks disturbingly like an alternative to Apple's popular iTunes online music store.

另一家市场调查机构Mark Mulligan of Forrester则指出，令人担忧的是该软件也太像苹果公司热门的在线音乐商店iTune了。

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"The classical-music sector has done a very good job of maximizing the opportunity of the Internet," notes Mark Mulligan, a digital music analyst at Forrester Research.

“经典音乐部门在最大限度利用网络方面做了很好的工作。”福瑞·斯特研究公司的数字音乐分析师马克·马·利根说。

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Mark Mulligan, editor of the Media Industry Blog, said the move might be intended to be symbolic.

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