Sep
15
Briefly: iAudio X5 firmware + tips, Mobile music market to go up, Nano review, Creative’s music video store, EFF’s win over Apple
- iAudio X5 Firware 2.10 beta 5 (English edition) is out (misc. improvements, ability to view RAW format files when connected to a Canon camera, support for Chinese/Japanese/Russian/Greek languages in the GUI)
- Some tips on using the iAudio X5 a la iPod+iTunes combo (using J. River Media Center, plus some other tricks)
- Mobile Music Downloads to Sky Rocket by 2010 (“the report finds that full-length mobile downloads, real music ringtones and online music will account for 39% of music industry sales by 2010, up from 4.4% in 2005”)
- DesignTechnica iPod nano review (rating: 9/10; fairly detailed review)
- Creative’s Soundbuzz Music Video Store (we’ve covered this before, but we’re posting it for the article’s following quote: “Eerily similar to the way iTunes Music Store interacts with the Apple iPod, users will be able to buy music videos online and transfer them to the Zen Vision.”; so you mean than when a company’s store syncs the purchased content to its player it’s “eerily” similar—teh horror!)
- Unsealed Court docs reveal Apple never investigated (“the law requires that Apple exhaust all other sources before turning to a Court-issued subpoena for information from a journalist”; man, the EFF gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling inside; if you want to support EFF, please consider supporting them)
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