Category: MP3 players
Creative's miniature Zen Stone player now available in the UK
We covered Creative’s Zen Stone player just over a month ago and as you’d expect, got the hands-on straight after, with a comparison test against its obvious rival – the iPod shuffle. If that sold you on the miniature player, here’s some good news – you can buy one now.
nuTsie: do you really want ads on your own shuffled iTunes library?
Melodeo has introduced a new beta service that lets users play a random selection from their iTunes music library on their mobile phone or Internet-connected PC.
Called nuTsie (and yes, that is an anagram of iTunes), users upload their iTunes library to Melodeo’s servers, and then have the ability to play back a randomised selection of their tunes in hi-fi quality.
The nuTsie service doesn’t download any of the music from its servers to the mobile device – it streams it. It also features a ‘radio rules’ shuffle algorithm to ensure artists, record labels and music publishers are paid for every use of a song. It can even play iTunes’ “Fair Play” tracks.
Miuro robot iPod speaker goes on sale worldwide
If you’ve got a keen memory, you might remember our story about the Miuro robot which promised to turn your iPod into a “dancing boombox on wheels”.
Microsoft Zune may still come to Europe this year
Well, maybe. Perhaps. Depending on the right conditions. Hmm, following reports last week that Microsoft’s Zune won’t be out in Europe until 2008, the company has moved swiftly to rebut the claims, without giving any clear indications of when we’ll see the digital music player on this side of the Atlantic.
Review: Bob Marley's 'Exodus' album – USB memory stick version
If you’re a keen music fan, you might have picked up on the fact that it’s the 30th anniversary of the release of Bob Marley’s ‘Exodus’ album. There’s TV documentaries celebrating the fact, as well as a glossy re-release of the album itself.