Starbucks recently announced it was phasing out its Hear Music media bars. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports on the chain's next step: digital media kiosks made by Seattle startup MOD.

The kiosks will offer 1.6 million songs, will allow people to purchase songs with a Starbucks gift card and can wirelessly download songs to some portable devices. "In our system, we envision creating many different types of endpoints -- either on a device directly or a cell phone," said chief executive Mark Phillips.

The article doesn't mention the file format of songs sold by the kiosks, but the product page for Endpoints at the MOD website makes mention of "flexible digital rights management schemes."