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Melodeo plans to bring a commercial version of its mobile music service, nuTsie, to RIM's BlackBerry smartphones this spring, the company recently announced. In a nutshell, nuTsie enables you to listen to your iTunes music library and playlists on a device other than an iPod or iPhone by mimicking your audio collection on a remote server.

The new nuTsie BlackBerry offering, which is already in beta, also allows you share these playlitsts with other Melodeo customers sharing their own iTunes playlists and music collections. You can explore other users' playlists by searching and browsing by artist, member, category and song title.

With nuTsie, you are not actually accessing your iTunes collection—directly or by uploading tracks to Melodeo's servers. Instead, Melodeo streams music from its own music catalog to users' supported devices, apparently avoiding legal potential legal problems. NuTsie matches its music catalog to the iTunes songs and playlits you want to access and share with others.

So, in actuality, nuTsie works more like a highly-personalized Internet radio service than anything else.

If nuTsie doesn't have a song in its collection, it initiates the process of acquiring that song or album. You can also send Melodeo the name of the artist, album and any other relevant information of a track you can think of to help nuTsie obtain missing songs. Melodeio even appreciates it if you can include info on where nuTsie can obtain an officially published version of the CD in question.

Melodio pays artists and labels a royalty each time a song is played, as determined by rules governing the playback of Internet radio. Currently, nuTsie works for AT&T and T-Mobile customers in addition to those of some other smaller cellular networks.