Here you are another CD Mini Component from Onkyo, the X-U1X. Announced at around 35,000 Yen and schedule for a September releases comes with the obvious basic CD Player, FM Tuner, USB (for Mp3 and WMA), but also Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR and A2DP 1.2 that will enable you to stream any audio files coming from a Smartphone, Tablet or PC via Bluetooth. The X-U1X comes with S.BASS and a 15Wx2Ch amplifier.
WOW it’s seems that we are back in the year 2000(ish) when DAP were huge and the average Geek must have toy, and regardless of what you can say Iriver was at this time a huge player… Still 12 years later it is rather rare to find one of their product on any website front-page!
Anyway, here you are the Lyumo 11, a USB Stick DAP from Iriver that has just been made official in Japan! The Lyumo 11 comes with 8 or 16GB of internal memory, a 128×32 EL screen, the support of MP3 and WMA files and …
The Humble Bundle folks are back with a new bundle, but this time around, they aren’t offering any games. The first-ever Humble Music Bundle launched earlier today, offering prospective buyers the chance to name their own price for six albums related to video games and nerd culture in general. Other than that, the idea is generally the same, with buyers still getting bonuses for paying more than the average amount and still able to customize where their money goes.
The albums included in this bundle are Favortism by MC Frontalot, Album Raises New and Troubling Questions by They Might Be Giants, Calling All Dawns by Christopher Tin, Best of Valkyria Chronicles by Hitoshi Sakimoto, and Jonathan Coulton’s Greatest Hit (Plus 13 Other Songs) by Jonathan Coulton (obviously). Those who pay more than the average – which at the time of this writing sits at $8.10 – will get OK Go’s Twelve Remixes of Four Songs included as a bonus. The trailer below features a short sample of a song from each album, along with a special message from Christoper Tin himself. Check it out:
The albums are available in either FLAC or MP3 format, and like previous Humble Bundles, all come DRM-free. As always, a customizable portion or your purchase amount benefits the Child’s Play charity and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, so even though you get to name your own price for the bundle, don’t skimp! All in all, it sounds like there’s an excellent range of music available here, so if you aren’t turned off by the idea of a game-free Humble Bundle, then we suggest you check it out. Just like past Humble Bundles, we’re expecting more bonuses to be added later on in the promotion. Stay tuned for more details!
First-ever Humble Music Bundle launches is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The Humble Bundle may have gone mobile on Android earlier this year, but that’s proven to be a relatively small jump compared to the organization’s latest expansion. It’s now rolled out its first Humble Music Bundle, a collection of six albums that, as always, you can name your price for. Those include an album of rarities from They Might Be Giants, Jonathan Coulton’s Greatest Hit (Plus 13 Other Songs), an exclusive MC Frontalot collection, Christopher Tin’s Calling All Dawns, and game composer Hitoshi Sakimoto’s Best of the Valkyria Chronicles — plus OK Go’s Twelve Remixes of Four Songs if you pay above the current average price. Naturally, all of the albums are DRM-free and available in both MP3 and FLAC formats, and you’re able to choose what percentage of your payment goes to the artists, charities (Child’s Play and the Electronic Frontier Foundation) and the Humble Bundle organization itself. You can get a taste of what’s in store in the video after the break, or get previews of each album before you buy at the link below.
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Digital audio. There’s a very good chance that you’ve enjoyed some today. It’s one of the more universal aspects of technology. In fact, perhaps the more relevant question would be, when was the last time you listened to an analog format? The truth, for many, will be quite some time ago — vinyl purists and the odd cassette fanatic aside. Yet, despite its ubiquity, there’s a lot of misunderstanding and confusion about digital audio. Some believe it’ll never match analog for true fidelity, some assert quite the opposite. Many lament the lack of a tactile format, while others love the portability that comes with zeros and ones.
In this installment of Primed, we take a look at the history of digital sound, as well as provide an introduction to some of its key components, with the view to helping us understand it better. Wondering what bitrate to encode your MP3s at? Or whether you should choose a 96 or 44.1KHz sample rate? We thought as much. By the time we’re through, these questions should no longer lay heavy on your mind, and you can enjoy that latest Knife Party, or Britney track as much as its bit depth allows. What’s bit depth you say? Well, read on to find out…
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Engadget Primed: digital audio basics originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Amazon is giving away $2 of Amazon MP3 credit and if you really want to stretch those imaginary dollars, you could land 8 ridiculously popular, played out to oblivion songs for free right now. That’s right, Amazon is pretty much giving away music. More »
Your LP collection may be the coelacanth of storage mediums, but it is often a repository of tracks and titles that you simply can’t get anywhere else. Here’s how to digitize your wax-platter music, and finally drag the last remnants of your analog life into the 21st Century. More »
WOW, the last time we came across such combo it was back in 2004-2005! Anyway, if you are looking for a cheap (1,999 Yen) headphone-Mp3 Player Combo supporting SDHC Cards up to 32GB and compatible with Mp3 and WMA files, search no more, and order yours online via Donya or GeekStuff4U!
Anyway the DNSB-80677, the name of this DAP offers up to 16hrs of continuous playtime and weight just about 160g!
Band members of the legendary metal band Def Leppard have announced that they’ve reached an impasse with their record label and will be freezing sales of all original recordings of their music. What they’ve done instead of accepting an unfair amount of royalties, so they say, they’ve decided to record what are effectively covers of all their original songs that’ll then be pushed to iTunes et all in a much more direct way that’ll have them cashing in as much as possible. One would hope that they’ll do a bit better than KISS did with their latest double-album (one of which was all covers of old songs too) Sonic Boom.
Thus far Def Leppard have only revealed a couple of tracks: “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and “Rock of Ages”, but they’ve let it be known that a whole lot more is on the way. Universal Music Group is reportedly stopped from releasing any Def Leppard tracks from the original albums due to the contract between the label and the band. Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott spoke to Billboard.com this week on the matter.
“When you’re at loggerheads with an ex-record label who…is not prepared to pay you a fair amount of money and we have the right to say, ‘Well, you’re not doing it,’ that’s the way it’s going to be. Our contract is such that they can’t do anything with our music without our permission, not a thing. So we just sent them a letter saying, ‘No matter what you want, you are going to get “no” as an answer, so don’t ask.’ That’s the way we’ve left it. We’ll just replace our back catalog with brand new, exact same versions of what we did.” – Elliott
You’ll be able to see many more tracks popping up in the near future if the first two singles continue to sell well. At the moment, Billboard has “Sugar” ringing in at 21,000 downloads in the USA while “Ages” has 5,000. Hopefully soon we’ll also be seeing Animal, Hysteria, and Love Bites – soon!
[via TechDirt]
Def Leppard re-recording entire catalog while originals freeze is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Looking for a compact CD Player with USB Support capable to play WMA and MP3 files as well as being compatible with your iPhone with a nicely integrated iPod/iPhone dock? Well look no further, behold Pioneer new X-CM31 Series micro component! Available in Black, White, Red and Brown and announced at just 20,000 Yen the X-CM31 Series is a really compact (200x250x12mm) Hi-Fi that comes with a small yet very capable 2x15W audio output!
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