03-23-2008, 12:00 PM
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SanDisk Promotes DRM-Free Music on microSD Card
"SanDisk Corporation, a leading seller of MP3 players in the United States, today announced the company will promote DRM-free music from more than 50 new and emerging artists on a microSD card. This U.S.-based program is the first of its kind to use microSD cards, and helps launch the new 8GB (gigabyte) Sansa Fuze MP3 player. The “Sansa Sessions” microSD card is comprised of a collection of rock, pop, and hip hop songs, music videos, and photos from more than 30 labels. Featured artists include All Time Low, Ladytron, Magnet, Nada Surf, Of Montreal and The Coup."
You know, it's funny. Less than two years ago it seemed as though the main-stream music industry was on its last leg. With almost monthly reports of some poor sap (or grandmother) being sued for alleged file sharing, Sony violating their paying customers computers with rootkits, and not to mention the RIAA running amok as if they were Judge Dredd himself - it can almost be considered a miracle that I can sit here and write this post while listening to a fairly high quality legally purchased DRM free album of one of my favorite bands. While the days of yesteryear have left a horrible taste in any music lover’s mouth, times are changing... and quickly! As cool as this Sansa Sessions gimmick is, you do have to purchase a SanDisk Sansa Fuze MP3 player to redeem this preloaded microSD card... but hey, at the end of the day you receive a free microSD card that can be used in almost anything nowadays and it is preloaded with DRM-free content. All in all, this isn't a bad deal if you ask me.
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03-23-2008, 09:33 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2007
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This is really nice to see finally. If you take a look at Amazon, they also are offering a DRM free MP3 music option. They have a downloader that you can install on either Windows, Mac or Linux or you can just download the files yourself.
The quality of the music has been very good so far that I have seen.
-Eric
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03-24-2008, 03:57 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2002
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>> SD Card <<
Wonder if they plan to "impliment" the "Secure Digital?"
If so, that will likely leave a lot of devices out of the loop.
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03-24-2008, 09:53 PM
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Oracle
Join Date: Aug 2006
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What's the capacity of the preloaded microSD card?
BTW what's the biggest and fastest microSDHC card available? I could only find A-DATA and SanDisk 8GB microSD cards, but both are only Class 4 (not Class 6).
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03-25-2008, 02:57 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by beq
What's the capacity of the preloaded microSD card?
BTW what's the biggest and fastest microSDHC card available? I could only find A-DATA and SanDisk 8GB microSD cards, but both are only Class 4 (not Class 6).
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To my knowledge, I believe the largest microSDHC card you can purchase at the moment is 8GB, but I haven't check in a few months. It seems like just the other day I was excited to buy a 1GB microSD card for my Smartphone 
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