SlotMusic format debuts at $14.99
FROM TWICE: Memory cards contain MP3 files with no DRM
By Joseph Palenchar of TWICE -- Video Business, 10/29/2008
OCT. 29 | FROM TWICE: The world's four largest music companies will begin this week to ship almost 40 music albums in the new SlotMusic format, which consists of a $14.99-suggested 1GB MicroSD memory card containing MP3 files with no digital rights management restrictions.The albums, which are priced similar to CDs, include new releases available day-and-date with their CD counterparts. Other albums will be catalog titles. Additional albums are planned for the Christmas selling season, the companies said.
The albums ship initially to such retailers as Walmart and Best Buy, which will also sell SanDisk's Sansa-branded SlotMusic players. Priced at a suggested $19.99, the SlotMusic players accept MicroSD cards with capacities up to 16GB and play music in the unprotected MP3 and WMA formats. Artist-branded versions bearing the names and images of such artists as ABBA and Robin Thicke will also be available at those chains in the coming days at a suggested $34.99. The price includes one of the artist's albums on a 1GB MicroSD card.
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