Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
Kindle, an ebook reader created by Amazon.com has another feature. It can play music.
Imagine reading your favorite fiction or non fiction book while listening to your favorite music.
According this post the Kindle can play music by going to Menu>Experimental>Play Music OR by selecting {ALT P} on the keyboard.
Selecting {ALT P} a second time will [...]
Amazon’s mp3 store is drm free, and they are attracting a new ‘mp3 crowd’...more->
They launched the public beta in 2007. The mp3 store features two million songs from 180,000 artists and 20,000 labels, DRM free. Songs sell anywhere from $.89 to $.99 and full albums will range $5.99 to $9.99. Best sellers will sell for [...]
In our article iPhone Rumors we speculated that Apple might pull the trigger on the iPhone. There has bee so much hype and speculation that we thought it was going to become almost like an urban myth.
Apple did pull the trigger on the iPhone, and the news and reviews on it so far are positive. [...]
Sony BMG, EMI, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Arista Records and Capitol Records, sue AllofMp3.com for 1.65 Trillion (USD). They estimate that AllofMp3.com has 11 million copyright infringement violations. With a $150,000.00 price tag per violation, they are suing for more money than Bill Gates can shake a Zune at. Full story here.
Why can’t digital music be sold in a mixable format?: “What I want is a file format that carries each track—unmixed. Then I want a ‘mix’ file, say in XML, that contains the artist’s preferred mix of the tracks. But then I want to be able to tweak it and mix my own version.”
Trent Reznor [...]
3tunes automatically records the songs Pandora plays for you and saves them in the format of artist – title.mp3. We’re obviously talking about transcoded tracks here, but it’s a nice way to grow your collection and maybe listen to that track a couple of times more before you decide you really like it and go [...]
BusinessWeek runs a piece on Tim Schaaff, Sony’s Senior VP of Software Development: the man who left Apple to undertake a huge task—make Sony’s software work. That means bringing the various departments closer, giving more power to software developers and keeping a low profile so as not to collide with the rather autonomous hardware engineers.
Review: [...]
Free music download—EP#2 from Kleptones’ upcoming album now available: and it’s for a limited time (they mean it—EP#1 went offline before I got to tell you), so hurry up. In the unlikely case you don’t know who the Kleptones are, you owe it to yourself to grab the “Night at the Hip-Hopera” release. [via]
From the ‘classical music’ department—9 Mozart symphonies available for free download: celebrating 250 years since the phenomenal composer was born. iTunes users, you may want to try this podcast link instead. [via]
You can feel it in the air. Not that many ground-breaking news in portable audio land these days. Which means we’ll be spending our time off for the holidays with much less guilts (it’s all about you, the dear and beloved reader, after all).
We’ll be back with you on Monday, January 9th (just in time [...]