Sep
5
Briefly: Sony negotiating with iTMS Japan, UK digital music battles, FlashShuffler, Napster UK sales figures, Small capacity HDD players compared
- Sony and Apple talking iTunes Japan (even Sony artists had protested for their music not being available in the iTMS; also, a year ago Jobs approached Sony CEO, Nobuyuki Idei, so that the two companies jointly operate the iTMS)
- British Music Retailers Begin Digital War (HMV and Virgin battling to get a piece of the booming UK digital music market; of note: “Virgin Digital customers will get free music insurance which will provide a back-up service to replace downloaded tracks if their computer’s hard drive crashes.”)
- FlashShuffler (like iTunes’ AutoFill, for your non-Shuffle flash-based MP3 players—great stuff) [via]
- Napster UK reveals sales figures (in 15 months, 55M downloads & streams, 750k users; more than half of them are parents, 80% over 25, 75% are male, 20% no longer buy CDs)
- Music That Fits In Your Pocket – From 3 To 6GB (not ground-breaking stuff, just a quick—and weak—comparison of the following models: iPod mini, Zen Micro, MPIO HD200, Olympus m:robe MR-100, iRiver H10, Samsung YH-820, Archos XS100, Rio Carbon Pearl) [via]
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