Weirdness Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Although CD sales are toast and downloads rule the universe anyways, it looks like music releases are going to be put onto micro SD cards and sold for under $10. Interesting concept for sure and I think that the "Jam it in my slot" ad campain is going to be a real hit as well. Full story: "Slot Music" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 It'll be awfully hard to design an album cover for those things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Funk Dawg Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 I think it's all going usb stick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 It'll be awfully hard to design an album cover for those things.Yeah, but it'd be easy to come up with some kind of standard way of making it all multimedia, with visuals and maybe an interactive menu system (rigged to work over the internet) synced to the music and the track list.Aloha,Brad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woo. Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 I really don't think its going to work. Why buy a sd card with music on it, when all your going to do is put it on your ipod anyway. It just seems easier to buy it off itunes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 I really don't think its going to work. Why buy a sd card with music on it, when all your going to do is put it on your ipod anyway. It just seems easier to buy it off itunes. Because not everyone owns an iPod. Creative Labs are starting to add SD card slots to their mp3 players. I'm sure Apple will eventually catch up and claim to be innovators. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chameleon Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 This is a non-starter. There is no new format, there can't be. Now that everything is so easily digitized, music can be put onto an off of any device.The only possible new formats will be different file types and really now with memory so cheap, pretty soon everyone will juts buy .wav files and we'll be done with those terrible sounding .mp3s.End of the road I'd say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burnt Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 It will be a very sad day when all new albums will come only in mp3 versions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 You can fit an uncompressed album onto an SD card. If more devices are built with SD card readers then this new format could be very cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wavinginthewind Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 I would like to see a new audio format that had a higher resolution then the current 44.1. 192 kHz is what the current pros record at, why not have an end product that can play that.It sounds a lot better. I'd like to see mp3's go the way of the 8-track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdness Posted September 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 Yes, the beauty of something like this is that they could offer high res versions very easily. Plus, you are without the mechanical limitaions of CD players which is also a win for several reasons. Unfortunately, the general concensus is that shrinking music to the bare minimum size is the only thing that anyone seems to care about, quantity over quality is the order of the day. You would think that as memory becomes cheaper they would be able to offer several versions on the same chip, high res, 16/44.1(cd quality) and mp3 as well along with other extra goodies at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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