phone and/or a personal computer. Copy music from a CD (compact disc) to a mobile phone. Share playlists with other LISMO users. Use downloaded music as a ringtone Backup address book data etc. to a personal computer File format Under investigation The music file has .KMF extension on the phone and becomes .KDR on the PC, the codec is HE-AAC with 48 kbit/s bitrate, which is same as au's full track ringtone service. Core services au Music Player A music player application for au's mobile phone. Music on the handset can be managed through this application program. au Music Port A mobile phone data managing application for a personal computer. This application is used to share and backup data from a mobile phone. Manages not only music data, but also other data in the mobile phone like camera data, PIM data, etc. Supports only Microsoft Windows au Music Store A service similar with the iTunes Music Store. Customers can download and purchase music with PC. The average price of one song is about 315 Yen (including taxes) and there are 20,000 songs available at the beginning of service. Uta Tomo (うたとも) (TM) Play list sharing service. Works over au's server. Internationalization This service is available only in Japan as of January 2006. Some issues Although all phones in Japan have an option to switch to English, phones from AU are not truly bilingual. Phones from AU use same software for all phone models (e.g. LISMO player, etc.). This software has not been translated. Thus, it is not easy for non-speakers of Japanese to use it as compared to in-built music players provided by AU competitors (such as NTT Docomo, Softbank, etc.) Commercials LISMO commercials, which changes approx. every 3 months, use many songs by J-pop artists. On March 5, 2008, an album titled Best of LISMO! was released. The album contains all 10 songs used in LISMO commercials that aired by the Summer 2007. List of songs used in the commercial (in order of which the commercial aired): Hana - Orange Range Ishindenshin - Orange Range Keep Tryin' - Hikaru Utada By My Melody - Ken Hirai Mikazuki - Ayaka Lovers Again - Exile Cherry - Yui Tashika ni - Angela Aki Stay with Me - Kumi Koda See also Sony Connect Mora (music store) iTunes Music Store Japanese mobile phone culture References External links KDDI au KDDI Introduces 'LISMO