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Sonos Gets More Affordable With ZonePlayer S5 Wireless Speaker
10:35PM Danny Allen | Sonos’ wireless home audio system is great for convenient, hiss-free streaming, but it’s pretty pricey. The S5 changes that (a little), by incorporating a receiver and speaker into a single unit-compared to the $US350 ZP90 which requires separate powered-speakers. More »
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Rhapsody Music Streaming iPhone App Gets Approved
5:50PM Danny Allen | Though it can’t cache songs like the recently-approved Spotify, Rhapsody’s app is available in the US only, and lets $US15-a-month Rhapsody To Go subscribers stream unlimited tracks over Wi-Fi, 3G or Edge. It’s also free to try for a week. More »
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Kazaa Wakes Up From Lawsuit-Induced Coma, Vows To Go Legit
11:54PM John Herrman | Old-line filesharing services can’t seem to switch sides fast enough: Now Kazaa, leading purveyor of illegal MP3s and maliciously mislabelled pornography for few years in the early 2000s, has been reborn as a legal, paid music download service. $US20 a month gets you unlimited downloads, 2005-style: in WMA format, wrapped in tons of DRM. The history of iPod-incompatible music stores is littered with dead bodies, so, well, best of luck. [SMH via The Inquirer]
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Stream Zune Songs To Your IPhone
12:00PM Jason Chen | Gear Live found a roundabout, but clever, way of streaming Zune tracks onto your iPhone. Why would you do that? Because Zune Pass gets you a basically unlimited amount of songs, and they don’t play natively on the iPhone. More »
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