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Notes From the Net
Compiled by Sarah Benzuly
Mix, May 1, 2004
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Download Me a River
iRiver's iHP-120 is a 20-gig (10- and 40-gig models available) portable MP3 player that allows users to record MP3s or uncompressed .WAV files through either an analog line-in or a digital optical line-in, as well as a built-in mic and FM tuner. The iHP-120 can be used for mobile recording; as a portable hard drive to carry sessions, samples, etc.; listening to the radio; or as a portable dictaphone. The 120's battery lasts 16 hours and comes with a wired remote, which has a four-line LCD, a leather carrying case and more. www.iRiveramerica.com
Latte and a Song, Please
In mid-March, Starbucks launched its first retail digital music service in Santa Monica, Calif., that allows coffee-drinkers to access its Hear Music brand to burn full-length CDs and personalized compilations from more than 20,000 albums and hundreds of thousands of tracks. The company said that it will begin to deploy this service to select stores. Acquired by Starbucks in 1999, Hear Music (www.hearmusic.com) creates music programming and CDs for the company's stores worldwide and operates four retail stores in California and Seattle.
Download to Cell to PC and Back Again
Vodafone Germany's Vodafone Live! Music download service uses Musicwave's MODS (Music On-Demand Service) to securely download full-length music direct to mobile handsets. Users can browse and purchase songs via the handset through one-click billing systems: Thirty seconds post-download, the
song automatically plays. Once playback is finished, the track is saved in the phone's memory. Consumers can retrieve the tracks on their PCs via a secured music storage vault. The user can also track downloaded songs via the company's site, www.vodafone.com (www.musicwave.com coming soon), download new songs and send directly from PC to handset.
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