| September 28th, 2005 11:06 AM |
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| Zeeta |
Stones release memory card album
The Rolling Stones are making their new album available on a flash card format, a medium used by Robbie Williams for the first time last year.
Virgin Records is releasing The Bigger Bang on the memory card, which is said to give flexibility, but with added security to prevent copying.
Buyers can also purchase extra Stones tracks for the card, which works with mobile phones and hand-held computers.
Williams' Greatest Hits album was the first major release sold this way.
Content locked
The encrypted card will be available in November at select US stores for $39.95 (£22.06), manufacturer SanDisk and the label said in a statement.
By comparison, the Stones' latest album A Bigger Bang will cost about $14 (£8) in the US on CD.
The card comes with copy-protection technology to stop content ending up on internet file-swapping sites or from being distributed without permission.
SanDisk spokesman Ken Castle said while the card can be taken out and transferred to other different devices such as mobiles and electronic organisers, the content stays locked in the card.
Former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman broke new ground when he released an album using memory cards in 1999. These were inserted inside their own MP3 player.
No bit torrents on that then!
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4290458.stm
[Edited by Zeeta] |
| September 28th, 2005 12:36 PM |
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| monkey_man |
Would anyone on this board buy albums this way? |
| September 28th, 2005 12:49 PM |
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| scratched |
I don't see why not. Not for £22 though. This format will probably mean the end of album artwork though because they're so small, unless that's also on the card and appears on the screen once it's playing! |
| September 28th, 2005 01:36 PM |
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| Jair |
Too expensive, huh? I can't see why I should, and, as said, no artworks, which is...boring!
I have to put my hands in the stuff or is not happening.
Is the same about...everything! I have to grab it. When you get old, like me, you get more selective.
Once, for example, I use to put my cock in any hole.
Now I'm chosing better.
Only dream girls, tie pussies, big tits, nice ass, big mouths, well, you know...these sorta thing...
Is needed enjoy the life as better as you can.
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| September 28th, 2005 07:42 PM |
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| Soldatti |
It's very expensive. |
| September 29th, 2005 07:19 AM |
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| egon |
when philips started to think about replacing the
record player with a new system, the 1st thing
they decided was that, whatever thet were gonna
invent, it had to look like a record and spin around.
Otherwise they feared the public wouldn't accept it.
If they had let go of that idea, we probly would have
been listening to music on chips much earlier.
If you think about, a cd (or dvd) is actually very
old fashioned
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| September 29th, 2005 08:38 AM |
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| Jair |
quote:
egon wrote:
If you think about, a cd (or dvd) is actually very
old fashioned
Yeas, but its cool.
You'll have to see my Polivox turntable. Its really charming!!! |
| September 29th, 2005 09:26 AM |
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| mac_daddy |
quote:
Jair wrote:
You'll have to see my Polivox turntable. Its really charming!!!
post some pics. |
| September 29th, 2005 12:38 PM |
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| Jair |
I havent nome, right now!
If you want to, I'll take some tonight.
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| September 29th, 2005 02:29 PM |
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| mac_daddy |
quote:
Jair wrote:
I havent nome, right now!
If you want to, I'll take some tonight.
i'd love to see pics. thanks. |
| September 29th, 2005 03:08 PM |
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| Jair |
quote:
mac_daddy wrote:
i'd love to see pics. thanks.
Anytime, LOL!
I'll take it! |
| September 29th, 2005 04:05 PM |
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| Saint Sway |
its expensive, sure.
but it comes with added tracks from Some Girls, Exile, Sticky Fingers, Tattoo You.
so its the only version of Bigger Bang available with quality songs on it.
which makes it a collectors item! |
| September 30th, 2005 08:47 AM |
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| Jair |
quote:
Jair wrote:
Anytime, LOL!
I'll take it!
Ok, then.
Now I heard that my boss (which is a very nice woman), has a whole set of antique things (from 70's), Polivox or Gradiente (is it the same company, btw?)
Well, I'll try tyo buy from her because is very hard to find this kind of thing this days. |
