Satellite iPod?

Christopher Breen has an idea about getting music on demand beamed to your iPod via satellite. Imagine sending a request for a track, album or playlist to a centralized database of hundreds of millions of audio files, and having that request fulfilled almost instantaneously. Yep – that would be pretty darn cool.

Breen notes that the only likely viable method of payment for such a service is through a subscription-based model.
Apple has denounced subscription-based models for digital music service in the past but, as one may notice, Steve Jobs does tend to exercise the freedom to change his mind.

I have used the Audiogalaxy Rhapsody subscription-based music service and loved it. The audio quality isn't fantastic, but for $9.99 a month the chance to discover hundreds, even thousands (if I only had the time!) of new artists is really downright cool. If there were a satellite-based, on demand music delivery service I could subscribe to and interface with via my iPod, I would do it in a heartbeat. Would you?