Music

We never really wish to hear anything “bad” happening to our beloved mobile music money train, but from the looks of things, the industry may have some upcoming challenges.

I am hip to the fact that many of you out there may be right there on board with Walkman cell phones. To me, this is just too much stuff in one device. I am the sort of fella that prefers his stuff a little more separated than that.

I may not have believe this before, I will admit to it now - there is a huge future for mobile music. The piece below illustrates this I think.

In many ways I see the example below giving the international music industry the chance to see what will work in the mobile world, but doing so without blowing things in the West if something goes wrong. The data generated from this idea below could prove valuable.

With just about every teen out there lugging around a mobile phone, the concept of premiering your band’s work over a mobile network could certainly offer some worthwhile appeal.

It’s a rough market for MP3 players, especially in an iPod world. Apparently some companies feel that adding things like Bluetooth can better the chances of a MP3 player’s success.

Remember that concept for downloading mobile music that we kept hearing about? Ya, you remember. Well, it seems these puppies are really start to move out the door; or onto the phone, rather.

Well, I guess this had to be one option eventually. Based on what I understand, a user can actually use iLoad-c to connect to mobile phone music stores from some pretty big name providers.

Bill Gates said Microsoft is working on bringing a better DAP to take on the iPod to a bunch of high school kids last week. Now just down the road there in the same state of gloomy weather Washington, Amazon’s Chief Executive Jeff Bezos says he’s talking to four global music companies and is [...]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes
The passing of the hard-drive based MP3 players at Dell went very quietly. According to Bloomberg, the decision was made to discontinue these lines in late December and early January. Dell will continue to sell the DJ Ditty (pictured above), which has 512MB of flash memory, as well as [...]

You know how when you walk into a Starbucks and you say to yourself, “Dude (or dudet,) what is this groovy tune they’re playing?”  And when you ask the friendly person at the register and they point you to the CD rack so you can buy that groovy track.  Well soon you may be pointed [...]

Yesterday we covered a device for your car that would play MP3s directly from any USB flash drive. It makes sense after all - we all have tons of storage devices. What if you could just load some files and then play them from whatever storage medium you have lying around?

Jimmy Daniels of RealTechNews writes:
In an article I posted about the Thump 2 sunglasses from Oakley, Julie from Oakley offered to send me a pair for review, and I just finished posting it on my site here.

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
One of the biggest fears I have with giving my mother-in-law (or, to a lesser extent, my wife) anything new technology-wise is the learning curve. Frequently I have to spend quite some time teaching either of them the ins-and-outs of whatever it is I give them.
An example would be the digital [...]

For the past few weeks, we’ve been seeing an interesting war of the words played before our eyes between Apple and the recording industry. Steve has called it greedy and the labels have said they’re barely making much money.
Everyone knows Steve’s right and the labels must be taking in the extracurricular - and illegal [...]

Wow, Apple is finally going to allow the iPod to record music properly? Well it’s about time! Actually, I just ranted for the heck of it. Since I don’t own nor wish to own an iPod, this news really did not get me as excited as I initially let on.

Thanks to Qualcomm’s PureVoice technology, audio files may now be converted to a readable format for your Verizon cellular phone. All you need to get started is an audio file, an audio editing software like Audacity, and a phone with picture messaging enabled.
You can use Audacity to crop your audio file down to ring [...]

If you are someone using Eminem’s music as a ringtone, you might want to read the following closely. Eminem’s lawyers are going after people not getting a proper license for his music, ringtone or not.

Now I realize that mobile music is and will likely continue to be all the rage. But could we not begin to look at technology for something a little more impressive? You know, perhaps a way to make dropped calls a thing of the past?

While I make no promises as to the legitimacy of this find, I have been told by a number of people that this is the real deal - iTunes for Windows Mobile 5 has been spotted, folks.