Sep
30
Briefly: iPod management, Senators against P2P, Zen Vision available, Xin Feng SumperMacro-3 amp, Snocap strikes another deal, Samsung’s ambitious MP3 plans
- Better iPod Management Through Journaling (Buzz uses playlists excessively—this screenshot is mind-bogling—and describes how he uses some of them to sync with his iPod mini; someday soon, I’ll try to post my own way of doing this)
- Feinstein: Outlaw File-Sharing—or Something (there’s nothing funnier/scarier than a senator speaking about filesharing destroying the “intellectual property industries”, when said senator’s election campaigns “have been financed in part by entertainment industries”)
- Zen Vision for $400 on Creative’s online store (30GB in black or white; read our previous cover on the device) [via]
- Xin Feng Releases SuperMacro-3 v5 Portable Headphone Amp (well not really released yet, but it should be any day now; 0.9-inches thick, weighs 7oz, and the feature list is impressive; price is not known yet)
- Record deal for Snocap, Fanning’s swap service (SonyBMG partnered with’em; Universal did so late last year; “Snocap’s system allows the creation of swapping environments where individuals can essentially sell each other their favorite music. It’s designed so that peer-to-peer networks can plug the identification technology into their own software, blocking unauthorized trades and turning others into sales.”)
- Samsung targets global MP3 leadership by 2007 (all the best, but you need to get read soon) [via]
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[...] As noted in the article, this brings to mind Shawn Fanning’s Snocap. Both companies want to use P2P for the distribution of DRM’ed content. I was going to say that getting to the market first and striking the most deals will decide who wins, but there’s probably plenty of space for both to co-exist harmonically. As much as I hate DRM, I don’t see it going away any time soon, and with P2P being an excellent bandwith-saving solution (for distributors) this is a promising concept. [...]
...added by HiFi Blog -- Gnab, delivering DRM’ed content through P2P /// October 25th, 2005 at 04:09 AM
[...] After it reached a deal with Warner Music Group on Sunday, Snocap now has an agreement with all four major labels (Universal, SonyBMG and EMI are the other three). That is in addition to the deals with indepedent labels, which means we’ve got quite a library in the making here. [...]
...added by HiFi Blog -- Snocap now in deal with all all major labels /// November 14th, 2005 at 03:43 AM