slotMusic = new music format

[nauc 10+ year member]

"In the latest attempt to shore up sales of music on physical media, SanDisk Corp. and the four major music companies plan to announce Monday a new format called slotMusic.

SlotMusic is be introduced in mid-October at retail outlets including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Best Buy Co. Each unit is to contain an album, plus extras, on a compact memory card that can be played on mobile phones, PCs and some portable MP3 players. The cards are inserted into vacant slots on phones and other devices. (The slots are increasingly common on newer phones, but the placement of the slot depends on the phone model.) SanDisk is a maker of flash data storage card products."

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[Immacomputer 10+ year member]

Looks stupid. It doesn't look like it's going to be much different than just buying an SD card and putting your own music on that. For $15, you can get 4 gigs worth of storage on a microSD card -- that's a lot more than one album.