SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Microsoft's challenge to Apple's reigning iPod MP3 players will be built by Toshiba and allow people to "DJ" by wirelessly sharing music, US regulatory agency filings showed.

Plans submitted to the Federal Communications Commission by Japanese electronics giant Toshiba provided a glimpse at the workings of an MP3 player designed by Microsoft Corporation based in Redmond, Washington.

The device was referred to in the filing by the code name "Pyxis."

Microsoft has vowed to release a "Zune" MP3 player and matching online music and video store in time for the year-end holiday shopping season.

"I can confirm that Toshiba is manufacturing the device and that the FCC report is legitimate," a Microsoft spokeswoman told AFP, "but no further details."

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