Music downloads coming to the PSN for PSP?

CNET is reporting that according to their music industry sources, Sony has been having preliminary talks with some major recording companies about the possibility of providing downloadable music for the PSP through the PlayStation Network.

As usual, Sony is not commenting about the whole thing. However, if you take into consideration the company's dive into digital downloads for PSP games as well as what CEO Howard Stringer recently said about expanding the PSN's reach, it could be feasible.

It would be nice if they do decide to bring a music service to the PSN, they open it up more. We as users need options to make it attractive. ATRAC3 is ok I guess, but most music players support MP3. I'm for one am not going outside of iTunes to download music especially if it can't be played on other devices.