Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
Slightly off-topic, but it’s good for your entertainment—Top 65 music videos of 2005: complete with screenshots and links to the actual videos; a top-notch job, and a good way to fill up your Zen Vision:M or iPod video. [via]
From the “budget-conscious” department—SonicFlare’s most outrageous loudspeakers of 2005: “2005 was a big year for audio and what better way to sum up the craziness than a roundup of the most outrageous new speakers of the year. Ranging from $1,299 to $250,000, these speakers are on the cutting edge of technology and audible design.”
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File-Sharing winners and losers of 2005: good wrap-up; BitTorrent, Apple (those MP3s end up in iPods) and the open-source P2P apps make the winners list. The RIAA (so much money wasted on lawsuits), Sony BMG (cf. rootkit), KaZaA (had to close down), and Grokster (forced to shut down too) are sitting on the opposite [...]
How couldn’t it be with almost 20M tracks sold? The previous record was 9.5M, and it happened just a week earlier. According to Billboard’s report:
A look inside the numbers shows just how unprecedented a week it was for the download business:
Before the week ending January 1, 2006, the record for the most downloads sold in [...]