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Sony's New Bookshelf MP3 Player -- Audio TiVo?
Betelgeuse writes: "The NY Times has a story story about a new bookshelf MP3/CD player from Sony. Every time you play a CD, the machine automatically copies its tracks onto its built-in 20-gigabyte hard drive. It will then try to get album track information off the CD or, alternately, you can use the PC link to get titles off your favorite cddb-like site." As the article puts it, they've come up with "the world's first TiVo for radio." Long overdue -- I only wish it used a format that was closer to standard, and let you pull tracks to other media. Update: 07/11 18:17 GMT by T : Ooops -- messed up that link, now fixed.
I only wish it used a format that was closer to standard
What could possibly be closer to standard than MP3? It's the de facto standard of digital music these days.
You don't see many Ogg Vorbis portable players, do you? Or ogg vorbis files shared on Gnutella, for that matter (compared to the number of mp3 files shared).
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