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Didiom was a digital media company focused on developing peer-to-peer audio streaming and mobile music bidding applications. The company's Place shifting technology allowed users to stream music from their home computer collections to mobile devices without requiring data cables or . Didiom also offered a licensed catalog of over two million songs, where users could purchase music or bid for downloads by naming their own price, introducing a novel music purchasing model. In February 2011, Didiom was acquired by Exclaim Mobility, Thumbplay and Didiom sales show cloud music is not all silver lining (The Guardian) which was later rebranded as SnapOne and subsequently acquired by Synchronoss.
In October 2008, Didiom launched a public beta of a hybrid mobile service that allowed BlackBerry and Windows Phone users to stream audio from their home computer to their phone over high-speed . The service also included access to Didiom's MP3 store, Elevator Pitch: Didiom plays your desktop music collection through your mobile (The Guardian) which featured a catalog of over two million songs from independent music distributors, including CD Baby, Didiom Partners with CD Baby to Offer 2 Million DRM-Free Music Downloads on Mobile Devices (PRWeb) Finetunes, Phonofile, and eClassical.
In February 2010, Didiom concluded its beta phase, discontinued its name-your-own-price music download service, and introduced Didiom Pro, a subscription-based audio streaming service. BlackBerry Travel Apps 10 Must-Have Downloads (CIO Magazine) Didiom Pro featured redesigned mobile and desktop applications that allowed users to stream audio from their personal computers to devices such as the iPhone, iPod Touch, BlackBerry, and . The service also enabled wireless downloading for offline listening, streaming of Windows Media DRM-protected content, and on-demand shuffling of audio collections.
Didiom partnered with Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Verizon, and BlackBerry to make the service available on platforms including Apple's App Store, Windows Marketplace for Mobile, Samsung Apps, Verizon's VCast App Store, and BlackBerry World. In February 2011, Didiom was acquired by Princeton-based Exclaim Mobility, a developer of consumer cloud-service applications, which was later rebranded as SnapOne and subsequently acquired by Nasdaq-listed Synchronoss Technologies.
The desktop application scanned a user's computer for audio files, making them available for secure wireless streaming and downloading via an SSL-encrypted connection through Didiom's mobile application. As long as the user's computer remained connected to the internet, audio files could be accessed remotely from mobile devices.
Didiom's technology supported a range of audio file formats, including DRM-free and DRM-protected Windows Media Audio (WMA), MP3, WAV, Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), M4A, and Ogg Vorbis. It also integrated with from iTunes and Windows Media Player in formats such as WPL, PLS, and M3U. However, DRM-protected AAC files (M4P) from the iTunes Store and in the AA format from Audible were not supported.
By distributing workloads across users’ devices, Didiom's P2P-based architecture allowed the system to scale organically, reducing server maintenance requirements and operational costs while offering a flexible and efficient solution for remote audio streaming.
Didiom’s advertising library on Flickr
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