Napster Inc, the digital music service, said on Tuesday it plans to attract more customers by moving to a Web-based platform allowing users to play their music from any computer without having to download any additional software. The move is intended to open up the service and attract more paying subscribers by making the Napster platform more flexible and compatible with any Internet-enabled device. Before now most Napster subscribers could only listen to their music after downloading the Napster software application on to their personal computers.

With this new platform Napster can easily be integrated into consumer electronics devices or integrated into other Web sites such as social networking sites,

said Christopher Allen, chief operating officer at Napster.