slotmusic - new music format

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see link:

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/ma...usic-cos-sell-albums-pre-loaded-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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