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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29, 2010

New product review

The new Salamander line is so far ... flawless.

Love the look, love the sound and especially, love the ease of use. I am such a fan of trying out new artists by just giving them a fair listen as I drive around and I can do that in seconds. I hear a song on the radio or on Mtv or whatever and I hit the 'Net and download it onto my juimpdrive and when its time to go I am jamming brand new tunes in the car. I love it!

I am also thrilled with the reliability of the engine that turns mp3s into music. Other units have crashed when they get a large mp3 file or a wma or something it can't digest. The Salamander 5000 has not run into anything it cannot handle.

The sound is a real improvement too. Other units have been only so-so on sound quality compared to a proper mp3 engine like a Zune or iPods but the Salamander sounds terrific! I can hear what the artists was thinking when he recorded the track. I can hear Steve Tylers heart beating occasionally. I can hear the police pounding on the studio door when I listen to 50 cent, I can even hear the sound of Katy Perry running out of song ideas.

 

It's like I'm there...sigh.


Posted by Administrator at 10:25 AM | 7 Comments

TUESDAY, DEC. 28, 2010

Music and movies

OK If I am going to get one of your awesome MP3 playing in dash car stereos, where do I get hte music?

#1 Obviously the best place to get mp3s is your own CD collection, rip them all to MP3 or WMA and off you go.

#2 iTunes and The Zune pass. iTunes has good points and bad points but it is the largest, most popular and arguably fastest. Zune pass has a financial advantage, Instead of spending a few $ each time you want to listen to a new song, spend $15/month and have unlimited access to all the music in the world. It is not much money and you can load up all your favorites in the first few months, and even after that $15 isn't much to have free music anytime you want it. Try new artists and songs you heard once on the radio without worrying about the cost. Nothing is more frustrating than hearing a song you like then dropping $20 on the album only to find not only does the artists suck, but the radio version you sort of liked isn't even on the album you bought. ARGH!

#3 Illicit downloading. Not that I would ever condone this sort of thing, but some people use torrents or file sharing sites to share music with others. Google the process or go to wikipedia to learn more.

#4 Direct sharing. Ask friends to throw some playlists or files onto a drive and share the old fashion way. It's a good way to expand your horizons and then you can go back and get the music the legal way using your Zune pass.


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MONDAY, DEC. 20, 2010

WE'RE BACK!

MP3 Innovations is back on the air! Fabio won Survivor last night and we are ready to help him spend his million$

MP3 Innovations went away for a while but our supplier got out fo jail and we are back to selling the hottest car stereo innovations around for bargain prices! Check out what we have to offer today. We Still have all the old favorites but the new lineup has some real crowd pleasers as well.

I am really excited to see these Mobile Note takers start flying off the shelves. ten years ago no one had an iPod and 15 years ago no one had a cell phone no we can't imagine life without them. THe Mobile note taker is the next big thing.

In a few short years the idea of a pen that only writes on paper will be as archaic as a pen you have to dip in a jar of ink.

Get yours now and see what I am talking about!


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FRIDAY, MAY. 29, 2009

Cool

Now if only they would come out with one for Zune! When is someone going to create an adapter that lets Zune owners take advatage of all of these cool iPod accessories? Zune is way cooler but iPod has cornered the market on cheap and innovative accessories!

How hard is it? a simple crossover cable or dock adapter that lets me plug my Zune into an iPod stereo or charging station or whatever!!

Get to work engineers! free us from the enslavement of Apple's ACC reich! Ihk bein ein Apple hater for a reason! Don't get me wrong the iPod is the coolest thing on the planet but if Apple had had Microsoft's success the Internet would be run by Police and file sharing would be something that only happened on the Sci-Fi channel.

Apple has done everything the DOJ has accused Microsoft of in terms of anti-competition practices the only difference is that when Apple did it no one noticed because no one was buying Apple products.

I like the Zune because it has a bigger screen and a better interface but that's only because Apple showed them how it could be done and in true Microsoft fashion they copied and improved the idea.

The iPod is the only player onthe market that doesn't support WMA. Why is that Department of Justice?
iPod doesn't have an FM radio. How hard is that?
iPod makes you choose between a large screen (Touch) and the storage capacity to watch movies on it. Why?

Turn away from the dark side people! Put your iPod on eBay where they are happiest and get a Zune! You will never look back!

$15/month for all the music you want! Are you serious? That's better than free because it is stealing without guilt! Do you know how much music you can download in a month?

ALL OF IT!

I have to run, I am going to watch Rise of the Lycans on my Zune.

 

 


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FRIDAY, MAY. 29, 2009

Check out this new product!

http://www.carplayer.com/

The NEO iON is an iPod adapter that is worth the trouble (although I am not convinced it is worth the price) Check out how the Neo iON does what all the other iPod connecters say they will do.

A cool gadget that might finally make it worth while to carry your iPod to your car, but at $159 US it had better come WITH an iPod!

 


Posted by Dave at 8:57 AM | 0 Comments

TUESDAY, APR. 07, 2009

MP3

MP3 or Motion Picture experts group layer three, has changed music and entertainment forever. It has made it finally possible for us to choose exactly what we carry around with us and allowed us the user to listen to what we want whenever we want to and wherever we want.

Thank you German guys who created .mp3 Thank you!

But would mp3 matter at all without the devices that so neatly make use of it? Without the now ubiquitous iPod? The ipod was inspired by Star Trek (if the story could get any nerdier I don't know how) Don't get me wrong I love Star Trek but the fact that it inspired new technology cracks me right up.

Mp3s have freed music and other audio media and taken them on the road like no other platform. Walkman, discman, seem like carrying a turntable around now compared to the solid, safe and secure miniature masterpieces of movable music that mp3 players offer.
I am not a fan of the iPod per se, but I do love MP3 players and ipod is the chief of the tribe. I am a Zune man myself, I liked the larger screen and freedom from Appleby's strict control of everything. The Zune allows me to listen to anything at all, while the iPod is the ONLY MP3 player in the world that fails to support wma files.
Zune also has an FM radio and WiFi music sharing.

That said, I love to drag any song I find onto a jump drive and play it in the car ten seconds later in my VRCD500 if you haven't got MP3 in your car, you may as well be driving a horse.


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TUESDAY, DEC. 02, 2008

How to convert ACC to MP3

ACC and WMA are arguably better than MP3 but MP3 is a no hassle universally supported format that just makes my life easier. If you have some odd formats and want to standardize your collection, heres how:

Thanks Jasmine France  for this cool tutorial:

Step 1: Download and install Free MP3 WMA Converter. Open the program.

Step 2: Click the File drop down menu and select Add files (or hit Ctrl+F on your keyboard). Navigate to the folder on your hard drive that contains the files you want to convert, such as My Documents > My Music > iTunes > Kate Bush > The Sensual World.

Step 3: Select the files that you want to convert. You can select more than one file at a time by clicking and dragging your mouse cursor, or by holding down Ctrl as you select each file. (You can repeat steps 2 and 3 if you wish to add files from various folders.)

Step 4: By default, the software will save your newly converted files into the same folder as the original files. If you would like to select a new output directory, uncheck the box next to "Save in the file's directory," then click the ellipses button next to the Output path section and navigate to the location where you would like the new files saved.

Step 5: Make sure the output format is set to MP3--that's the default, but it's always good to double check. This free app can also be used to convert to and from other formats as well, such as WMA or FLAC. 

Step 6 (optional): If you would like to adjust the output settings of your file even further, click the ellipses next to the Format parameter section. Here, you can set the bitrate for the file as well as make other adjustments. Click OK once you have the settings to your liking.

Step 7: Click the Convert button in the lower right corner of the window. You can monitor the progress of the conversion in the top and bottom sections of the screen.

Step 8: Free MP3 WMA converter does not preserve most of the metadata from your files, so you will have to manually input the ID3 tag parameters if you want that info attached to the MP3. Click Options > Tag editor (or Ctrl+T); then, navigate to the newly converted MP3s on your hard drive and update the file information by filling in the fields in the right column of the window .


Posted by Administrator at 5:56 PM | 0 Comments

TUESDAY, DEC. 02, 2008

Zune pass! Finally a music download service that is reliable AND legal.

Microsoft upgraded its Zune Pass music subscription service, allowing users to pick 10 songs each month that get permanently added to their music collection.

For the first time since Napster went down music lovers are actually getting a value for their downloading dollars. Zune pass lets you pay a modest fee for actually buying music without any of the Apple strings attached nonsense.

I don't know about you but the idea of buying something I don't really own makes my teeth hurt. WIth ACC you owed it as long as you only used it when and where they tell you and for as long as they tell you.

Go Zune Pass and get your music without strings.


Posted by Mike M at 5:46 PM | 2 Comments

MONDAY, AUG. 04, 2008

Cuil.com

Ex-Google staff launch rival search engine, Cuil
The new site promises better results by scouring a larger index of web pages than Google, but experts are cautious about its prospects

.....searching for results across 120 billion web pages compared with Google's index of 40 billion pages...

....Last month, Google performed 82 per cent of searches in the UK last month, according to Nielsen Online, compared with 5 per cent for Yahoo!, 4 per cent for Microsoft's Windows Live Search, and 3 per cent for Ask.com....

 


Posted by Administrator at 12:21 AM | 0 Comments

THURSDAY, FEB. 28, 2008

Audio books


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Download some old classics and unheard of titles for free
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Get lots of mp3s with Limewire

 


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TUESDAY, JAN. 22, 2008

DId you know...?

Joint stereo limitations:
Mp3 can not switch joint stereo mode for specifics scalefactor bands. If joint stereo is used, it has to be used for all the bands. This is rather inoptimal, and is limiting the use of joint stereo. As an example, imagine the following situation:
The lower frequencies are featuring an instrument playing on the far left, and frequencies around 1500Hz are featuring a singer in the middle of the stage.
In such a situation, it is not possible to use joint stereo with Mp3 because of the lower frequencies part which is too different between both channels. A further bitrate reduction could have been achieved if it was possible to toggle joint stereo mode on a scalefactor band basis. (in this case regular stereo would have been used for the lower frequencies, and Middle/Side stereo for the remaining part of the frequency spectrum)

Posted by Administrator at 5:04 PM | 1 Comments

MP3 Car Stereo

MP3 Car Stereos

MP3 Innovations is your source for cutting edge products in MP3 car audio, MP3 Car Stereo, in-Dash CD MP3 Players and all gadgets. We strive to bring you the newest car audio systems without the showroom pricing. If you want to play MP3s in your in dash car stereo, then this is the place for you! We have the perfect MP3 car stereo and car stereo USB device for you. Keep watching for new ideas, and if it's new and it's audio, it's here!
This month's flagship product is Salamander's in-dash wonder the
S-6000

Not a very sexy name but the new car stereo unit itself is brilliant.

Having a car stereo that will play direct from flash media is incredibly convenient. throughout your day you hear new music and in today's world it doesn't take a trip to the record store to own it. Download it from your computer, your phone or even your mobile device and in seconds you can hear it, but not through your little rubber earbuds; through the massive power of your car system!

  • Sound quality worthy of high performance models. (Better than some)
  • Price so low you'll think they are stolen! (They aren't. Really!)
  • Compares with high-end models (which cost over twice as much and don't even offer a USB port or SD slot)
  • Design based on one of the most popular car stereos in the world
  • Few Car Stereo in Dash CD MP3 Players are even available and most are back ordered, overpriced or limited in functionality

Reasons to buy an MP3 car stereo from MP3Innovations:

 

  • Copying music to a USB drive or SD or MMC card takes seconds compared to a few minutes with the fastest CD burner.

  • Plus CD's pile up and have to be stored.

  • CD's tend to get scratched.

  • CD-R's tend to stop working even if they aren't scratched.

  • It's pretty cool when your friends see you pull out a USB drive and stick it into your mp3 compatible car stereo!

In-dash mp3 car stereo that reads CDr's, iPods, SD cards or USB
Pimp your ride with serious sound from the coolest and most convenient media ever used in the history of music!

 

Our MP3 Car Audio units combine legendary mp3 car audio technologies with the simplicity of modern design to provide a boost to your vehicle's existing sound system. Built for those seeking exceptional performance at an unprecedented value, they provides access to all your favorite music in mp3 format or other popular formats, through its multi-format CD player, aux port for universal connectivity to portable media players and enhanced AM/FM reception.

Don't be the last to evolve.

mp3 car stereo is better than vinyl records mp3 car stereo is better than 8-track mp3 car stereo is better than cassettes mp3 car stereo is better than CDs mp3 car stereo is better than iPod

1931-now Some early tech-heads put record players in their cars!

'63-'82 Most automobile makers added the 8-track stereo as a standard option. Each tape could hold as many as 40 songs.

'64-now The cassette stereo brought the cost of car audio come down and ease of use go up.

'82-now CDs brought a whole new level of technology to car audio but we were still limited to around 24 songs per fragile disc.

Car stereo media isn't really getting much smaller... Until now.

mp3 car stereo

How do USB drives work?

A USB flash drive consists of a flash memory data storage device integrated with a USB (Universal Serial Bus) interface. USB flash drives are typically removable and rewritable, and physically much smaller than a floppy disk. Most weigh less than 30 g (1 oz).[1] Storage capacities in 2010 can be as large as 256 GB[2] with steady improvements in size and price per capacity expected. Some allow 1 million write or erase cycles[citation needed] and have a 10-year data retention cycle.[3][4]

USB flash drives are often used for the same purposes as floppy disks or CD-ROMs were. They are smaller, faster, have thousands of times more capacity, and are more durable and reliable because of their lack of moving parts. Until approximately 2005, most desktop and laptop computers were supplied with floppy disk drives, but most recent equipment has abandoned floppy disk drives in favor of USB ports.

USB Flash drives use the USB mass storage standard, supported natively by modern operating systems such as Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and other Unix-like systems. USB drives with USB 2.0 support can store more data and transfer faster than a much larger optical disc drives like CD-RW or DVD-RW drives and can be read by many other systems such as the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, DVD players and in some upcoming mobile smartphones.

Nothing moves mechanically in a flash drive; the term drive persists because computers read and write flash-drive data using the same system commands as for a mechanical disk drive, with the storage appearing to the computer operating system and user interface as just another drive. Flash drives are very robust mechanically.

A flash drive consists of a small printed circuit board carrying the circuit elements and a USB connector, insulated electrically and protected inside a plastic, metal, or rubberized case which can be carried in a pocket or on a key chain, for example. The USB connector may be protected by a removable cap or by retracting into the body of the drive, although it is not likely to be damaged if unprotected. Most flash drives use a standard type-A USB connection allowing plugging into a port on a personal computer, but drives for other interfaces also exist.

USB flash drives draw power from the computer via external USB connection. They should not be confused with some look-alike music player devices that combine the functionality of a digital audio player with flash-drive-type storage and require a battery for the player function.

What is an SD card?

Secure Digital (SD) is a non-volatile memory card format developed by the SD Card Association for use in portable devices. It is widely used in digital cameras, cell phones, ebook readers, tablet computers, netbook computers, media players, GPS receivers, and video game consoles. The format has proven very popular and considered the de-facto industry standard, SD technology is used by more than 400 brands across dozens of product categories and in more than 8,000 models.[1]

SDSC (Standard-Capacity) cards, typically called SD, have an official maximum capacity of 2 GB, though commercially available up to 4 GB.[2] SDHC (High-Capacity) cards have a maximum capacity of 32 GB, [3] and SDXC (eXtended-Capacity) cards have a maximum capacity of 2 TB.[4]

Changes to the interface of the established format have made some older host devices, that were designed for standard SD cards, unable to handle the newer SDHC, SDXC, and SDIO families. All SD card families have the same physical shape, which tends to cause confusion with consumers, thus the SD Card Association has been trying to educate the public about the differences.[5]


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