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Sandisk to try to extend physical music sales-how else-with mem. cards...
Sandisk has begun selling micro sd memory cards with music albums loaded on them. Sure, this has been done before as promotion- but now they have a whole library of different artists and albums to choose from. Each album comes on a 1gb card with extras such as pics, videos and lyrics included. There is, however,still a lot of free space. The card comes with a usb adapter so it can be played on a computer. Users are also allowed to transfer the music to their PC. One slotMusic album sells for $14.99.
^the $20 sansa slotmusic player
more info at
http://www.slotmusic.org
intersting article:
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/[....]ic/news/2008/09/portfolio_0922
those were the facts, and now my pesimistic opinion on the matter:
Sandisk boasts about the size and capacity of a mem. card compared to a cd, maybe even thinking this "new format" will take over cds.
Here's where I see the catch- why buy MULTIPLE 1gb cards with just ONE album on them only to have to SWITCH cards to listen to different albums? Sure, I can transfer music from them onto my computer and then put them on one larger capacity card- but will have a bunch of leftover 1gb cards. In my opinion this project will be shortlived - why buy music on memory cards when you can download it AT HOME and then just copy it onto your mem. card?
imo: cd
The idea does have a future though- if cellphones and multimedia players will soon be able to play near HD res. movies, than their harddisks and mem. cards will not suffice for a collection- opening the idea of buying content on them(similar to sony's PSP and movies on umd discs) But these devices would either need a large internal memory or second mem. card slot for your permanent data.
[ This Message was edited by: oddie k750 on 2008-12-01 10:38 ]
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Posted: 2008-11-29 12:56:43
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Personally I quite like the idea. Would certainly save space (Could store all 700 ish of my albums on a shelf instead of a couple of bookcases). They would generally last longer as be less prone to damage (scratching, loss of quality etc). Transfer times to pc wouldn't take as long as ripping a cd.
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Posted: 2008-11-29 21:31:06
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Well that's interesting, if it doesn't affect the price of the cards much.
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Posted: 2008-11-29 23:18:33
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if they can make players that are nice as ipods, it will take off. if they spread it onto their other micro cards (like transflah, & M2...) even better. but the thing with phones is, most people will buy a card that's big enough & leave it at that - they won't be swapping cards all the time, because it's not just music, all their apps, photos & other files are on there too.
nice idea though.
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Posted: 2008-11-30 11:43:51
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