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Buying music isn't the only option these days and you can "rent" it from a subscription service for a pretty decent monthly fee. Rhapsody is one such service that also offers to sell you the tracks as MP3 if you want to keep them. Read on for a review.
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The Zune HD wallpaper contest in the forums produced some really great looking original wallpapers optimized for the Zune HD. The winner of the contest, ABI member Rom, created a spinoff of the “I’m a PC” Microsoft ad campaigns calling his series “I’m a Zune”. The picture pack features ...
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Zune HD
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Philips is a brand that hasn't gotten much attention on this site in the past, due to somewhat random product numbering, release schedules, retail outlets and generally a rather weird behavior for a MP3 manufacturer. They have some nice players however, especially some of the later ...
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Philips GoGear Spark
With Amazon MP3 and iTunes out of the way- the two immediate giants in the music store world- it's time to turn to some of the smaller services. First off is eMusic.
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Digging though old posts I came across a review I started but never finished dating back to 2006. The photos are even watermarked before we had a logo.
The Zen Vision W was basically a larger version of the Zen Vision:M . They both had a great looking screen and awesome playback of native ...
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Creative Zen
You might wonder what anything with "iTunes" in the title is doing on a site called Anything but iPod. Well, iTunes made the leap from DRM to DRM free earlier this year, and suddenly the biggest digital music store was open for use with any MP3 player- not only the iPod. 11 million ...
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iTunes
Most on board sound cards are not worth the PBC they are printed on. They are plagued with low quality chips and interference from other internal components. The best solution would be to go with an external fire wire solution. I and a lot of others in our forum use one of the AudioFire ...
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Having gone through an reviewed some of the most popular music organization applications for MP3 players it's time to turn to the other part of the equation: how to get a hold of media in the first place. Amazon MP3 is the first in a series of reviews that will test to see what media ...
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It’s been quite a while since we reviewed the CrossRoads MylarOne X3/XB and X3i/XBi. While they were good sounding in-ear phones in the sub-$100 price range, their build quality was more than questionable. Jaben, the company behind the CrossRoads brand, certainly considered these ...
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anythingbutipod.com - 11 days ago
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For me it has been an exciting 4
years of running ABI, checking out the latest gadgets,
working with manufactures on improving their products, and most of all getting a chance to interact with a lot of great people in our community forums . ...
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Bigger and Better Things at ABI
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Now that the major players (some pun intended) in the field have all been reviewed, it's time to take a look at them all and decide which is the recommended choice for music organization software.
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One of the most commonly suggested applications to review on ABi>> has been J. River's software. Unfortunately the Media Center software is $50 and I therefore ignored it at first. Then someone linked to the free Media Jukebox , a stripped down version of the software that will ...
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Microsoft just released firmware 4.3 for the Zune HD . It fixes some minor issues like speeding up the browser, does some preliminary support for upcoming applications and games and also adds predictive text input to make it a bit easier to type on the device. It also speeds up the startup ...
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Zune HD
Cowon just dropped two of its new players in time for the holidays here in the US. The iAudio 9 or sometimes called the i9 is the next generation i7 but this time it looks like the buttons are much more accessible. The i7 was a great sounding player ( review ) with some great output but it ...
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anythingbutipod.com - 19 days ago
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Today Creative Zii Labs released the first Android
firmware for the Creative Zii EGG based on Android
version 1.6. The firmware is very beta and really only for the developers to start working on the OS for the Zii EGG. The basic Android ...
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Android 1.6 on the Creative Zii EGG [HD Video]
While not a competitor to any of the other music organizing applications I've reviewed lately, foobar2000 deserves somewhat of a "special mention" for it's computer side music playback capabilities. Read on for a quick review-slash-walkthrough.
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Next up in my series of software reviews is an old champion that hasn't changed much over the last few years. How will it hold up to the more updated music applications?
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With the S540 review out of the way, it's time to shift focus to its baby brother, the E340. How does it compare to the S540?
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anythingbutipod.com - 19 days ago
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Battery powered USB chargers are pretty cheap at
Amazon and other places, but as with everything else
it's always more fun to make your own. The basic concept of a USB charger is actually pretty simple, and you don't really need more than ...
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How to Build a 9v Battery Powered USB Charger
anythingbutipod.com - 19 days ago
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With previous generation Zunes being discontinued, the Zune
HD will be rolling solo into the next generation
of the Zune platform. This hardware along with the software and services is a walled garden approach that tightly integrates content ...
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Zune HD Review
