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SanDisk slot Music card : Leaders in music, retail and flash memory technology announced they’re bringing consumers an innovative, new physical music format, dubbed “slotMusic.” microSD cards will soon be made available with pre-loaded, high quality, DRM-free MP3 music of top artists from EMI Music, SONY BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group. A selection of slotMusic cards will first be available at brick-and-mortar and online stores throughout the U.S., including Best Buy and Wal-Mart, with Europe to follow. A list of slotMusic albums, availability and pricing will be announced in time for the coming holiday season. SanDisk, inventor of the microSD format, is leading the technology development behind slotMusic.

microSD enabled mobile phone

SanDisk slotMusic cards enable consumers to instantly and easily enjoy music from their favorite artists without being dependent on a PC or internet connection. Users simply insert the slot Music card into their microSD enabled mobile phone or MP3 player to hear the music - without passwords, downloading or digital-rights-management interfering with their personal use. Musicians will find slotMusic memory cards offer a compelling new way to express them selves to their fans. With 1GB (gigabyte) of capacity, slotMusic cards can hold songs, as well as liner notes, album art, videos, and other creative content that an artist may choose. Consumers can also add their own content to a slotMusic card, creating a personal plug-and-play media library.

slotMusic cards high quality alternative to CDs and digital delivery

"slotMusic offers consumers an immediate, tangible, and high quality alternative to CDs and digital delivery," said Danielle Levitas, vice president, Consumer, Broadband & New Media, IDC. "This year, more than 1.2 billion mobile phones will ship globally, outstripping portable media players by nearly an order of magnitude - and this trend is accelerating."

SanDisk slotMusic cards

SanDisk slot Music cards will be packaged with a tiny USB sleeve ensuring seamless interoperability with all computers - Windows, Linux and Mac. The upshot is that slotMusic will enjoy an unparalleled, pre-existing installed base at launch: hundreds of millions of multimedia-phones, virtually any computer with a USB connector and a growing number of in-car sound systems will be able to play slotMusic cards. The MP3-based music tracks will be played back at up to 320 kilobytes per second (kbps), offering a high quality music experience for the MP3 format.

Canelek wrote:Good point on the non-D/L-capable folks. They usually listen to popular music anyway.

Winnow wrote:The point is the music industry is at least attempting to provide a physical medium that is DMC free.

CDs are dying and you can't shove a CD into a cell phone mini SD slot. There are plenty of rubes out there that don't know how to download music...of course they might not know how to stick music in a slot either...but they still prefer physical media. I run into lots of people that still have phobias about purchasing anything online.

Spang wrote:Just because all of the computer illiterates you know are over the age of 60, doesn't mean all of the computer illiterates are over the age of 60. There are computer illiterates at all ages.

Aardor wrote:
Not all cell phones have miniSD slots.

* Archos: 605 WiFi (4 GB flash version), 405
* Alcatel: OT-E801, OT-C717 Black Soft Touch
* BenQ-Siemens: EF61, E71, EF81, EL71, S82, SFG75, S88, CL71
* BlackBerry: Pearl (8100, 8120, 8130), Curve (8300, 8310, 8320, 8330), World Edition (8800, 8820, 8830)
* Cingular 3125
* E-TEN: glofiish X500, glofiish X500+, glofiish M700, glofiish X800
* FIC: Neo 1973T, Neo Freerunner
* Garmin hand-held GPS: Edge 605, 705, eTrex Vista Cx/HCx, Legend Cx/HCx, Venture Cx/HCx, GPSMAP 60Cx, 60Csx, 76Cx, 76Csx, StreetPilot i2, i3, etc.
* High Tech Computer Corporation (HTC): HTC Artemis, HTC Atlas, HTC Breeze/HTC MTeoR, HTC Cavalier, HTC Elf/HTC Ted Baker Needle/HTC Touch, HTC Elfin/HTC Touch, HTC Erato, HTC Excalibur, HTC G1, HTC Herald, HTC Hermes/HTC TyTN, HTC Iris, HTC Kaiser/HTC TyTN II, HTC Libra, HTC Love, HTC Monet, HTC Touch Neon/HTC Touch Dual US, HTC Nike/HTC Touch Dual, HTC Omni, HTC Pharos, HTC Polaris/HTC Touch Cruise/HTC Touch Find, HTC Raphael/HTC Touch Pro, HTC Startrek, HTC Titan, HTC Touch/HTC Vogue, HTC Vox, HTC Wings
* i-mate: Smartflip, JasJam
* iRiver: E100
* JVC: GZ-HD5, GZ-HD6
* Kyocera: KX55XO, Slider Sonic, Slider Remix
* LG Electronics: VX8300, VX8700, enV2 (VX9100), Dare (VX9700), Voyager (VX10000), Viewty (KU990), LGCU515, Shine (KE970), Rumor (LX260), Scoop (AX260), UX260
* Motorola: V360, E398, V635, V710, A780, E815, A840, E770, E815, E895, C975, V975, C980, V980, A1000, A1200, M1000,Maxx Ve E1000, V1000, ROKR, V1050, V1150, SLVR L7, Motorola L7e, E1060, E1120, RAZR (V3i, V3m, V3r, V3t, V3x, V3xx, V6), i870, i880, i876, i876w, i885, i580, A1200, KRZR (K1, K1m, K3), Z3, Z6, Z8, Z9, Z10, L7, Moto Q9h, Q9c
* NEC: N908
* Nintendo DS storage devices (e.g. DSTT)
* Nokia: 3109c, 3110c,3120c upto 4GB 3250, 3500c, 5200 (up to 2 GB), 5300, 5310 (up to 8 GB), 5320 (up to 8 GB), 5500, 5610, 5700, 6085, 6086, 6110 Navigator, 6120/6121 Classic, 6124 Classic, 6125, 6131/6126/6133, 6151, 6233, 6234, 6265i, 6267 6275i, 6300 (up to 2 GB), 6301, 6500 Slide, 6288, 6555, 7373, 7390, E50, E51, E61i, E65, E71, E90, N73, N75, N76, N78, N81, N82, N95, N96
* O2: O2 Ice, O2 Cocoon, Xda Orbit, Xda Orbit 2, Xda Exec, Xda Mini S, Xda Trion, Xda Stellar
* Orange: Berlin
* Palm: Centro, Treo 800w
* Patriot: PC133
* Pantech: Duo
* Pioneer: AVIC-S1 Mobile Navigation System
* Sagem: My V-76, My X 6-2, My501C, My401C, My411X, My511x
* Samsung: Samsung Instinct, SGH-A717, SGH-A737, SGH-F210, SGH-D600, SGH-Z370,SCH-U620, SGH-E740, SGH-X836, SGH-U510, SGH-U900
* SanDisk Sansa: e200 series, c200 series, Express, Fuze, View
* Sanyo: SCP-8400, SCP-8500 (Katana DLX)
* Sharp: 770SH
* Song: Song DIC 338/A138
* Sony Ericsson: K850, XPERIA X1
* T-Mobile: Dash (Smartphone), WIng (pocket pc), Sidekick 3, Sidekick LX, G1
* Vodafone: Vodafone 1210, Vodafone 720, Vodafone 716, Vodafone 715, Vodafone 810, Vodafone 527

lol!

Aardor wrote:Hey dipshit, How about you look at the number of cell phones that exist vs # with SD slots? Where did I say that the reason SD will fail is because you can use a CD on your cellphone. What I was saying is that the market for people who want SD cards to load music on their cellphones is very very small. Sorry that it went over your head.

Aardor wrote:Hey dipshit, How about you look at the number of cell phones that exist vs # with SD slots? Where did I say that the reason SD will fail is because you can use a CD on your cellphone. What I was saying is that the market for people who want SD cards to load music on their cellphones is very very small. Sorry that it went over your head.

Winnow wrote:

Aardor wrote:Hey dipshit, How about you look at the number of cell phones that exist vs # with SD slots? Where did I say that the reason SD will fail is because you can use a CD on your cellphone. What I was saying is that the market for people who want SD cards to load music on their cellphones is very very small. Sorry that it went over your head.

Look at the number of women from a few years ago with runaway pubes compared to the number all trimmed up today.

You have to look forward. I'm sure people at companies like Xerox used your same reasoning back before they went under.

All physical entertainment media is dying. The music industry is looking for the best possible physical format MOVING FORWARD to salvage what's left of the market for them...and as ass backwards as some people are,it's going to take a long time to get "common folk" to switch to electronic downloads completely. A microSD converter for your home theater will cost $10 or less. They'll probably have "buy three albums, get home theater adapter for free" sales.

Cassettes are still sold. That doesn't mean they're significant anymore.

Funkmasterr wrote:

Aardor wrote:Hey dipshit, How about you look at the number of cell phones that exist vs # with SD slots? Where did I say that the reason SD will fail is because you can use a CD on your cellphone. What I was saying is that the market for people who want SD cards to load music on their cellphones is very very small. Sorry that it went over your head.

I'd say the majority of cell phones have SD slots. Even the shitty little phones you get for free that have like zero features have SD slots on them.

Aardor wrote:

Funkmasterr wrote:

Aardor wrote:Hey dipshit, How about you look at the number of cell phones that exist vs # with SD slots? Where did I say that the reason SD will fail is because you can use a CD on your cellphone. What I was saying is that the market for people who want SD cards to load music on their cellphones is very very small. Sorry that it went over your head.

I'd say the majority of cell phones have SD slots. Even the shitty little phones you get for free that have like zero features have SD slots on them.

How many of them offer you the ability to easily (must be easily, remember that we are talking about computer illiterate people here) play music on your phone, including offering some sort of output for you to use for headphones (with our without an adapter)? Also, how many of them allow use of mp3s as songs? I know that a bunch of Verizon's phones don't let you do this (it's locked out in their software).

miir wrote:If someone knows how to play mp3s from a micro-SD on their phone, they can sure as fuck figure out how to download songs from iTunes and put them on their Ipod.

Today the otherwise preoccupied Senate quickly passed the Webcaster Settlement Act many of you petitioned for, granting Pandora and other net radio services the right to negotiate royalties with the record industry's SoundExchange coalition for the years 2006 to 2015. OK, that's a mouthful—what it means is, they will likely not be driven to bankruptcy due to unreasonable royalty rates.

I say "likely" because they still need to dot i's and cross t's on the royalty deal itself, but here, Congress approved their ability to do that, and just in the nick of time.

Pandora chief Tim Westergren told us today: "We’re just hugely grateful to our listeners and everyone who moved so quickly to mobilize support. This last weekend was just extraordinary." There you go, the world itself may be collapsing, but at least you know our legislators listened to your pleas to keep your favorite web radio broadcasters in business.