Browse recent news and commentary related to MP3 player developments, using the links below.
MP3 News & Headlines
MP3 Player Commentary
Browse the Archives
MP3 Player News & Headlines
NAMM Update: Denon DJ Intros DN-S3500 Tabletop CD/MP3 Player
Denon DJ introduced the DN-S3500 tabletop CD/MP3 player, featuring a powerful 12-pole Direct Drive motor, 7 on-board effects and intuitive control.
NAMM Update: iKey Plus Turns Audio Into MP3s
iKEY-Audio introduced the iKEY PLUS – a device that records live audio and converts it into high quality MP3 and WAV files and saves them directly to an iPod or another USB compatible storage device.
Roku teams with MP3tunes to deliver music streaming
(Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - If you’re a Netflix streamer, you may have heard of the Roku Netflix Player, a device that streams your Netflix videos to your TV.
Apple squashes bugs with iTunes 9.2.1 update
(Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - To kick off the start of the new work week, Apple has released a minor update to iTunes 9.2 to fix some bugs and keep iTunes trucking.
Live Concerts Come to YouTube and Vevo This Summer
(Mashable)
Mashable - VEVO and YouTube have taken another step to establish themselves in the online music space by announcing a partnership with American Express to launch a series of live-streamed concerts, “Unstaged: An Original Series from American Express."
MP3 Tech Commentary
Free Music Downloads This Week The free music downloads on our radar this week are:-=Allstar Weekend=-
Genre: Teen Pop / Rock
Free Music Download: Good Day (3:05)
Music Video: Journey to The End of My Life via YouTube
Album: Their new album, Suddenly, (Hollywood Records, Inc.) is now available from iTunes, Amazon MP3, and other top digital music services. See the Allstar Weekend official website for more information.
Free Music Album Download: Holy Hail - The Dying Party EP In our free music spotlight this week, we're focusing on the New York based experimental/hip hop band, Holy Hail. Following on from their debut album, Independent Pleasure Club, they are generously offering up a complete free music album to download. To grab your digital copy of The Dying Party EP, go to Holy Hail's official website.
Seagate Announces New 3TB Drive Can Store "Countless Hours" of Digital Music According to a press release from Seagate, the company has just broken all storage records by releasing the world's first 3 Terabyte external hard drive. Seagate says that their new 3TB drive is capable of storing "countless hours" of digital music, or if you prefer: 120 HD movies, 1,500 video games, or thousands of photos.
Free Music Downloads This Week: Human Life's Summer 2010 Mix Seeing that we are now in the season of summer music releases and outdoor festivals, it's a fitting treat this week to feature a band who have just released a mammoth summer mix -- so big in fact that it comes in two parts! Electro Pop / Disco House trio Human Life are a Los Angeles band who are celebrating the launch of their new EP, In It Together (view official music video) by releasing their Summer 2010 Mix which contains over two hours of non-stop dance music. To keep you going all day, Human Life have created separate daytime and nighttime mixes.
Study: Kindle Can't Replace Textbooks Quite Yet One would think young (well, mostly young) college students would be hip to new devices such as eReaders. But a new study that used Amazon's Kindle finds that while 90 percent of students liked the device for personal reading, up to 80 percent said they would not recommend it for studying. No word on whether those 80 percent told the folks who did the study to get off their lawns.
HMV Canada Launches Digital Music Store HMV Canada has now officially launched its answer to Apple's iTunes Store. Until now, the company had been trialling the service as a Beta model for the past seven months with the help of customers. The President of HMV Canada, Humphrey Kadaner, said, "As expectations for an hmv digital offering were high, we wanted to allow ourselves time to enhance the service by evaluating consumer interest and wants. This was all in preparation for the development of a digital service that would exceed customer expectations. Thanks to the extensive testing and consumer feedback we've received to date, we are confident that hmvdigital.ca is a digital offering that will impress consumers and, ultimately, bring them closer to the music they love."
Acer Wades into Android Tablet Mix As Acer steadily works toward its goal of catching up to Hewlett-Packard in PC market share (it eclipsed Dell for the No. 2 slot), there's another arena that HP might want to do some behind-the-shoulders peeking regarding its Taiwanese competitor.
HP Files Trademark for PalmPad Name Ooh, what do we have here? It looks like HP's WebOS-powered tablet is starting to take form as Hewlett-Packard just filed a trademark for the PalmPad name. Now I don't know about you, but the use of the word "Pad" in the name sounds like a dead giveaway to what kind of device HP plans to compete against — and I don't mean the Lenovo IdeaPad. In fact, the use of the WebOS interface, which powers Palm's smartphone line, pretty much indicates that the PalmPad will be positioned against Apple's popular iPad. After all, the iPad's iOS interface used to be called the iPhone OS.
Past News Headlines:
July 18 - July 19 - July 20 - July 21 - July 22 - July 23 - July 24