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Monday, August 31, 2009
Music

SanDisk Sansa Clip+ MP3 Keeps The Bizarre SlotRadio Dream Alive

11:04PM John Herrman | Remember slotRadio, SanDisk’s anachronistic plan to load microSD cards with sometimes DRMed music, as if they were CDs? It was strange! Also strange: SanDisk still believes in it, and they’ve even produced a second, fuller-featured player called the Clip+. More »
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Gadgets

SanDisk Releases $US20 slotMusic Player, Dozens of SD Card Albums

8:56PM John Herrman | SanDisk’s grand plan to revolutionise the music industry: selling individual albums preloaded onto SD cards, made by them, to be played on SD card players, made by them. The concept is definitely attractive in some ways. The tracks are 320Kbps, DRM-free MP3 files, the SD cards are reusable and the screenless slotMusic players costs next to nothing. Major label albums are priced at a competitive $US15, and can be played without the need for transfer from a computer, though you can load other SD cards with up to 16GB of music and play them, too. More »
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Peripherals

Sandisk’s SlotMusic MicroSD Cards to Have Big-Name MP3 Albums Aboard

5:56PM Kit Eaton | Sandisk’s slotMusic cards are not much more than tweaked 1GB microSD cards with a logo and a special USB-compatible sled: but the fact that they’ll carry albums from big names like BMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group makes them interesting. They’ll also be DRM free too, which is a pleasant surprise. It’s an attempt to change the way some people buy MP3s—you’ll get a card you can slot into your mobile phone or PC with high-quality MP3s (up to 320kbps), artwork, videos and such, which you can also reuse as a 1GB memory card later, and that’s kinda handy. More »
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