Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
Seagate has released the CompactFlash Photo hard drive.
Why does this interest you?
If you don’t own an iPod mini (or are not willing to pay the premium to get one), it doesn’t. But if you do, you’ll be happy to hear Seagate’s drive works with your precious device (same formatting, etc.). It just needs a bit [...]
Music stores brand awareness is an iTunes & Napster game: “American downloaders aged 12 and older are nearly equally as likely to be aware of Napster 2.0 and iTunes on a top-of-mind basis (31% vs. 27%, respectively); when prompted with actual brand names, more than four out of five (79%) of downloaders recognize the Napster [...]
Google an artist/album/track, and a link comes up at the top pointing to the “More music results” page (example), with the artists, albums and tracks that match your query (example).
Clicking on an “artist” results takes you to the artist’s page, lists his/her albums and related info (example); clicking on an album page gets you the [...]
MTV & Microsoft’s digital music service to launch in 2006: called Urge (remember when we posted it about it back in August), it’ll be integrated into Windows Media Player and will come with a 2 million songs catalog.
Original content and MTV network programs is where it’s at, I think (considering how popular MTV’s shows are [...]
Sony updates their flash models’ names to something humans can remember: about freakin’ time. So now:
NW-E407 → Walkman Core
NW-E307 → Walkman Circ
NW-E107 → Walkman Bean
I hope other companies follow that way too—if the product’s name is stupid, how are the people supposed to discuss it?
Magnatune to distribute a Weedshare-enhanced version of its catalog via LimeWire’s LimeClick P2P network? Weedshare means you can trade the songs you buy with others, and when those others buy them too, two things happen: (a) DRM restrctions for’em are waved, (b) you get a cut of the sale.
iPod-companion products to debut at the annual MacWorld Expo in January: there’s talk about an iPod boombox “unlike anything seen in boombox world” and strikingly different from “anything Apple has released in the past.” Well, we’ll see about that; sounds interesting though, we can’t ever get enough of new audio gadgets.
Review: PEZ MP3 player: a little flimsy here and there, and the price may be a bit high, but hey, you’re paying for the novelty! We had presented the PEZ MP3 player two months ago.
iPod mini fans continue to make the news: refusing to go Nano, there’s a bunch of people buying the Mini and paying a premium for it.
Mac users/Creative Nomad owners (the 5 of you) your prayers have been answered, in the 4-letter goodness that seems to be XNJB.
XNJB is a Cocoa graphical user interface for Mac OS X for the Creative Nomad range of portable MP3 players.
As the owner of what is undoubtedly The Best. Portable Audio Player. Ever. (NOMAD Jukebox [...]