slotmusic - new music format

len_scanlan · 2nd October 2008, 11:38 AM

see link:

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/mar...-memory-cards/

The press release is titled "Your favorite album, preloaded onto a music stick"

Wow I thought - "Frizzle Fry" by Primus, remastered at 24bits/96K and loaded on a flash stick...

Then reading further it dawned on me that this is intended for the MP3 kids who listen on their cellphones. Nice idea though, with up to 1GB on a stick. Shame its being wasted with MP3 only, there's enough space for an albums worth of BOTH uncompressed CD quality and MP3 to co-exist, and no DRM nonsense.

Still, something to think about - with the plummetting cost of Flash, there's no reason why a 'cartridge' format couldn't make a comeback. At last a new physical format to actually buy music on.

Pity the music industry aren't looking at this to push HD audio into the mainstream. My car stereo accepts a USB stick, no reason why my home stereo shouldn't either...

-Len.

bassfrontier · 9th July 2009, 04:36 PM

I like!

I wish it would have been uncompressed 24bit 96Khz-192Khz format... on something the size of a pumpkin seed!

I would buy each album this way!

chuyler1 · 10th July 2009, 03:27 AM

Hmm, where is my copy of frizzle fry... BRB

2nd October 2008, 11:38 AM	#1
len_scanlan diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Auckland, NZ	slotmusic - new music format see link: http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/mar...-memory-cards/ The press release is titled "Your favorite album, preloaded onto a music stick" Wow I thought - "Frizzle Fry" by Primus, remastered at 24bits/96K and loaded on a flash stick... Then reading further it dawned on me that this is intended for the MP3 kids who listen on their cellphones. Nice idea though, with up to 1GB on a stick. Shame its being wasted with MP3 only, there's enough space for an albums worth of BOTH uncompressed CD quality and MP3 to co-exist, and no DRM nonsense. Still, something to think about - with the plummetting cost of Flash, there's no reason why a 'cartridge' format couldn't make a comeback. At last a new physical format to actually buy music on. Pity the music industry aren't looking at this to push HD audio into the mainstream. My car stereo accepts a USB stick, no reason why my home stereo shouldn't either... -Len.

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9th July 2009, 04:36 PM	#2
bassfrontier diyAudio Member Join Date: Jul 2009	I like! I wish it would have been uncompressed 24bit 96Khz-192Khz format... on something the size of a pumpkin seed! I would buy each album this way!

10th July 2009, 03:27 AM	#3
chuyler1 diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Massachusetts	Hmm, where is my copy of frizzle fry... BRB

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