HiFi Blog: digital audio goodness

John Borland, with an excellent story (via) on how Sony’s Connect (the supposed answer to Apple’s iTunes) came to be such a crappy, bug-ridden app. So bad that the US branch of Sony refused to release it in their market.

By early summer, the Connect programmers were saying they had no way of meeting plans to [...]

The sleeping, bleeding giant who can’t sleep at night because of a four letter word, unveiled a new line-up of MP3 players under the name “WALKMAN” (yep, all capital letters). It’s 2 HDD-based (NW-A1000, NW-A3000) and 3 flash-based (NW-A608/7/5) MP3 players. And there’s a software-related surprise at the end of this post.

HDD-based MP3 players (Sony [...]