Slot Music….Tech Tuesday
It has been a few weeks because of fires, hurricanes and of course who could forget OJ! But now we are getting back to our ‘Tech Tuesday’ column. Here I highlight something new that you might actually use, not some obscure, overpriced, life confuser.
Here you can also ask me any questions about tech problems or information you might have or need. If I can’t answer, I will go to the source and do my best. SO…without any further procrastination, here is this weeks new tech item you are going to see soon enough. Next week I will be profiling some new noise cancelling headphones that I am addicted to!
IT”S CALLED slotMusic
According to SanDisk, and we have profiled their storage cards before, slotMusic cards offer a compelling new way to express themselves to their fans. They all come With 1GB of capacity and can hold songs, as well as liner notes, album art, videos, and other creative content that an artist may choose. Consumers can also add their own content to a slotMusic card, creating a personal plug-and-play media library.
slotMusic cards enable consumers to instantly and easily enjoy music from their favorite artists without being dependent on a PC or internet connection. Users simply insert the slotMusic card into a phone or music player. Now you can do this already yourself, but you need to know how to load a card and then play it on your respective phone/mp3 player/computer/etc. Not hard to do, but this newer concept seems to be like a DVD set up, where you’ll buy these cards preloaded and ready to use. What do you think?
slotMusic cards will work with Windows, Linux and Mac. The upshot is that slotMusic will enjoy an unparalleled, pre-existing install base at launch: hundreds of millions of multimedia-phones, virtually any computer with a USB connector and a growing number of in-car sound systems will be able to play slotMusic cards. EMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group have already signed on to this new way of enjoying music and entertainment and all that it has to offer.
Adam Housley has been with FNC since 2001 as a Los Angeles-based
correspondent. He has covered news ranging from wildfires in California
to political unrest in Venezuela and was one of the few reporters who
witnessed the execution of Stanley “Tookie” Williams. 
Cool, seems like a waste of SD cards though.
I can put HUNDREDS of songs on the 2GB MicroSD in my phone. I just buy them online. a buck a song is much better than $10-15 for a couple songs I like & a bunch I don’t.
I own an Independent record label in Louisville, Ky. This slot-music idea is great! To be able to put music, pics, & videos on one 1gm card is super! We will be one of the first to try this technology! Thanks for the heads up!
BLAQ $HEA
HOOD RECORDS, Inc. C.E.O
Here we go again. Trading convenience for quality. It would seem that our political scene mirrors the low fidelity music scene. Quality vinyl is superior to the pre-Windows 16bit CD format. Granted the CD’s sounded better than many cheap record players and are very convenient. Now, we have an even lower quality format such as MP-3. I have given up on the current pop culture engineers and market hucksters selling this low resolution junk. For many years I have collected pre-recorded reel to reel tapes in both two and four track formats. Their quality blows away my entire CD library, even classical and jazz. My tape library is now transferred to terabyte hard drives using 192Khz/24Bit sampling via the Emu 1616m system. These are transferred to the DVD “A” format so I continue to enjoy ALL THE MUSIC, at least, at home. We are doing a real disservice to the present 30’s something generation since they never experience personal wide range audio. Granted, most of the pop libido fare does not require extended bandwidth if all we desire is the usual bump and grind flat singing performers. Plastic players are fine for joggers but serious listening requires superior equipment and it does not cost a fortune these days. I look at my restored Ampex 350 and feel those days may be gone forever.
ADAM
HOW ABOUT A TECH GADGET THAT CREATES INSTANT POSTING?????
Morning all
Adam:
Next week I will be profiling some new noise cancelling headphones that I am addicted to! (of which year?)
I like KC’s idea!
John– I thought you had disappeared– HELLO!!!!
@Adam-
but you need to know how to load a card and then play it on your respective….
(chara– I can’t even load my washing machine much less learn this!
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MicroSD cards are not a good fit for something like this. In the manual for MicroSD cards the SanDisk actually warns against repeatedly inserting and removing the card from devices since it is so inherently fragile. How long will these things last?
Second, I’m a big MP3 user and all my songs go directly onto my PC and as soon as I do that the chip is worthless. 1GB is ample for a music album especially in an era where most “artists” are stingy on total content, but 1GB is rapidly becoming obsolete. If these chips don’t go into the trash they’ll become clutter like those worthless 8MB cards digital camera manufacturers insist on packaging with their new digital cameras.
Third, the MP3 movement is about convenience. You find a song you like, download it, and you’re set to go. With an SD card you’re forced to buy songs and a card you probably don’t want in order to get one song that you could either get from free with Limewire or whatever it is iTunes charges for songs.
Fourth, “artists” are an obnoxious, arrogant bunch that live in an echo chamber of homogenous thought. Their current annoyance is to instruct us in how we must live our lives according to the “green” rules they dictate. How is it “greener” to go to a store and buy a loaded MicroSD and its packaging instead of downloading the song over the PC? Their hypocrisy is one of the reasons I get joy out of getting music for free online. It’s just the socially responsible thing to do because it keeps money out of their pockets. (Let ‘em get real jobs if it comes to that)
First off–I am not going back to Vinyl–CD quality should have been 24 bit 48,000–it’s not, but I still prefer the 16 bit 41,800 to vinyl noise/wear. Now you are talking about MP3 compression? Get real!
Why not, at least, give us the CD quality (AT LEAST) you have a gigabyte medium for it!
I WILL NOT PAY FOR LESS QUALITY! There are millions like me.
This is a dumb idea if they plan on less quality–not buying into this “future”!
I read that these cards will be in the “price range” of CDs. In this economy, who is going to choose to buy a $20+ memory stick with music they aren’t even sure they like instead of downloading for free? Whether or not I am morally bankrupt is not the question, the question is how much am I willing to pay for the latest music? And the answer is nothing.
Music and bible on the go…..Man can it be any better?
Bible and good music on the go………….Man , never had it better !
Another way to squeeze money and dumb down the masses. Music quality has been forsaken for mass quantity. I will not buy these garbage cards unless they can sell us quality exact copies of the music. What the crap are they so scared of? People are “trading” the cheap, drab, lifeless copies for free all over the place. At least let those of us who PAY for the music ENJOY it.
Artists that let their music be destroyed like this need to be slapped in the forehead. All except for maybe Britney Spears. Lord, how I would hate to have to hear her crap in anything but downrezzed and muddy MP3s.
I think, Adam, you should include some music in the tech threads! So I can rock!
thank you!
xxxx
The first cell phone running Google Inc.’s mobile software looks something like Apple Inc.’s iPhone and has a large touch screen, but it also packs a trackball, a slide-out keyboard and easy access to Google’s e-mail and mapping programs.
Google made its debut as a cell phone software provider Tuesday at an event where wireless carrier T-Mobile said it will begin selling the G1 phone for $179 with a two-year contract. The device hits U.S. stores Oct. 22 and heads to Britain in November and other European countries early next year.
I agree with John with his comment about trading sound quality for convience. I’m a DJ AND I STILL SPIN VINLY AND CD’S. But now I’m my line of work dj’s are showing up to gigs with laptops WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE ART OF BEING A DJ. 1st they didn’t want to carry records next they don’t want to carry cd’s what’s next sd cards. NOTHING BEATS THE SOUND OF VINYL AND THIS GENERATION WILL NEVER LEARN THAT. I DON’T EVEN OWN A IPOD. I BELIEVE IN QUALITY SOUNDING MUSIC NOT HORRIBLE SOUNDING MP3′S
Mike Mitjans AKA DJ Broadway
Brooklyn NYC