Is microSD the music medium of the future? (cnet.com.au)
SanDisk and the big four music labels will shortly make albums available on microSD cards. But is the format a great idea or a fiddly mess? [News Source]
Archive for September, 2008
SanDisk’s slotMusic Goes Against Digital Music Trend (NewsFactor via Yahoo! News)
Will a small microSD card save the album/CD music format? That's the provocative question raised by SanDisk, which announced Monday that it has struck deals with music-industry leaders to release DRM-free MP3 music on slotMusic cards. [News Source]
NEWS: Record Labels Adopt New Technology to Sell Albums in Sagging Market (SOHH.com)
Rihanna , Usher , Chris Brown , Akon and others will lead the recording industry's first major move away from the traditional CD format with to the introduction of slotMusic next month. [News Source]
What’s in the Cards for SanDisk? Music (New York Times)
Do you remember when cereal boxes sometimes had phonograph records imprinted in some sort of waxy stuff on the back? (Do you remember phonographs?) [News Source]
SanDisk’s New SlotMusic: But Why? (Wired News)
As the world seems to march toward downloaded or streamed digital music, SanDisk today is unveiling a new physical medium for music. It's called slotMusic , and it's basically an album on a thumbnail-size microSD card. [News Source]
SanDisk tipped for new music format (vnunet.com)
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com , Tuesday 23 September 2008 at 23:14:00 'SlotMusic' system to put albums on memory cards SanDisk has inked a deal to distribute music on its Flash memory cards. The firm announced a partnership with music labels EMI, Sony BMG, Universal and Warner to launch a new... [News Source]