HiFi Blog: digital audio goodness

A look at the innards of iRiver’s T30: and here’s a review of the device.

You may be experiencing difficulties when trying to purchase an album from the iTMS—you’re not alone, and according to Apple it should be fixed by next Monday, November 28th.

CNET Asia reviews Creative’s Zen Micro Photo, gives it an 8/10 rating (“excellent”) noting its excellent $/GB ratio and great audio quality. They can’t forgive the fact that it’s unable to play music while viewing photos and the display is a bit hard to view under sunlight. Oddly enough, the previous Zen Micro Photo review [...]

The man behind the ‘Intel Inside’ chimes: ”...Walter Werzowa had never heard of Intel when they asked him to compose a 3 second jingle for them. Last year alone, they spent $350m promoting the sound he created in his home studio by paying PC companies to use it in their ads. It’s played once every [...]

Podcasting basics: BusinessWeek has got a good article on podcasting, covering the basics: gear, software, hosting, etc. One simple, trivial thing I can’t stress enough myself when talking to podcasters, is also noted in the article: “Be sure to edit the ID3 tags that describe your audio file for listeners.” It really amazes me that [...]

iPod video: formats and display resolutions guide: also, have a look at our wrap-up on guides for transferring video content to your iPod.

What is Navio? Playlist Mag has a story on’em, and I remember reading about them elsewhere. In short, and assuming I’m reading things correctly here, they plan to act as the “DRM-middleman”, between music publishers/stores and the customers. By reverse-engineering Apple’s DRM (FairPlay) and having already access to WindowsMedia DRM (since MS licences it to [...]

Review: Nero 7 Ultra Edition: PC Mag gives it a 4/5 rating, noting its excellent mastering and audio capabilities. [via]

Apparently, the 6.01 update to iTunes doesn’t work with the iPod shuffle.

Samsung YP-U1X and YP-U1Z now available in the US: good looking flash-based MP3 players, in various capacities (U1X: 512MB—U1Z: 128MB-2GB), with full audio support (MP3/WMA/WAV/OGG) and support for subscription-based music services (Windows Media DRM 10). In this miserable Shuffle-dominated era we live in, we have to point out that the U1 has a 4 line [...]