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Michael Robertson, who's last venture MP3.com was sued out of existence, has just launched a new music oriented service called Oboe at MP3tunes.com. I don't have any opinion on how he will execute, but this is an interesting idea. It's pretty close to a number of things I am trying to do (on a much smaller scale) as well.
Here's a Boing Boing post with a long note from Robertson explaining the deal:
You can store all of your own music, making your entire music collection playable from any browser in the world. Plus you can also sync that entire music collection and playlists to multiple computers with a single mouse click. Oboe is the jukebox in the sky that can store all library for safety, playback and move your music to any location for offline playback as well.$39.99 per year. Supposedly unlimited uploads, and 128 Kb/s streaming playback. If he can really pull that off it sounds like a great price to me. I am so curious what someone at that level pays per Mb/sec for bandwidth. Well, okay, I'm not so much curious as jealous.