Starbucks may fill coffee cups, iPods

Customers at Starbucks may soon be able to say "I'll take a Double Mocha Latte and fill up my iPod."

The ubiquitous coffee chain already sells music CDs with its coffees but soon may offer on-the-fly MP3 downloads.

"A lot of our customers are asking for device fill-up, and going forward we'll do that," said Ken Lombard, president of Starbucks Entertainment, at the Midem music industry conference in Cannes.

The chain hasn't yet set a date for moving into music player downloads and is still talking to various companies about the technology, Lombard said.

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