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Your analog music collection can make the move to digital with INport, a new pocket-size device from Xitel that transfers recordings from your stereo to your PC. The $70 Xitel INport provides high-quality digital sound transfers from turntables and cassette decks (and even older devices, such as ... More...

Sonic Impact Technologies has introduced the i-F3 portable speakers for iPod. The $169.99 speakers are encased in a zip-up portable shell and work from a rechargeable lithium battery. The speakers features a dock station to play and recharge all dock connector equipped iPod models including the i... More...

SonicBlue has announced two new flash MP3 players: the Rio S50, with an integrated FM tuner, and the Rio S35S, with a rugged shell for athletic use. SonicBlue unveiled them on Monday and expects to start shipping both models in coming weeks. The S50 includes 128MB of built-in flash storage for hol... More...

Apple Computer plans to attack the low end of its primary markets this year with smaller versions of the Macintosh computer and its popular IPod music player, Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs said Tuesday at Macworld. During a keynote address to the rapt audience of Apple fans here in San Francis... More...

Hyatt Hotels & Resorts on Monday announced plans to offer iPod dock-equipped clock radios in its U.S., Canada and Caribbean properties, and also unveiled a new digital download music pilot program. Hyatt announced that U.S., Canada and Caribbean properties will feature iHome clock radios. T... More...

The new iPod nano combines components from a range of brand new suppliers, enabling Apple to offer more features at lower price points, according to iSuppli. iSuppli has issued a tear down analysis of the nano, finding a completely new design that reuses almost no components employed in the previou... More...

EMI — the music group behind Apple’s DRM (digital rights management) free iTunes — has agreed to be bought by private equity firm Terra Firma for £3.2 billion (US$6.4 billion). EMI has been the subject of bid speculation for the past year as its business has st... More...

Just because three major online music retailers bind their music stores to specific portable players doesn't make it acceptable, a Norwegian consumer group leading the charge against Apple's digital rights management (DRM) policy says. "ITunes Music Store and others are unfair to consumers no... More...

Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store was under discussion at New York's Digital Music Forum this week, even though the company did not officially attend the event. RealNetworks Vice President of Music Services Sean Ryan offered the keynote at the show. He said, "2004 will be a great year for di... More...

Sony has learned several lessons from its reluctance to quickly embrace music download services and is now working hard to make up ground against the dominance of competitors such as Apple Computer, a senior executive said on Thursday. The Tokyo-based consumer electronics giant wasn't as quick off ... More...

Hyatt Hotels & Resorts on Monday announced plans to offer iPod dock-equipped clock radios in its U.S., Canada and Caribbean properties, and also unveiled a new digital download music pilot program. Hyatt announced that U.S., Canada and Caribbean properties will feature iHome clock radios. T... More...

Terra Firma's US$6.4 billion purchase of record-label EMI raises some questions about the future direction of one of the recording industry's Big Four music makers. But one thing that's unlikely to be affected by EMI's changing ownership is its decision to offer DRM-free tracks via the iTunes Store.... More...

The increasingly rancorous feud between Apple and RealNetworks over technology that lets tunes from the RealPlayer Music Store play on the market-leading IPod is refueling controversy about Apple's business model, copyright law, and the impact of incompatible technologies on the music business. Re... More...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp said on Monday it will give away millions of songs via downloads starting next month as it launches a wireless music service with Apple Inc . From October 2 to November 7 at more than 10,000 U.S. Starbucks locations, customers can... More...

The Associated Press published an article last week about high schools increasingly banning iPods because some kids use them to cheat. The article, reprinted in USA Today and hundreds of other newspapers, reported one example where a school "recently enacted a ban on digital media players afte... More...

Bose has introduced the SoundDock Portable, a portable speaker system for iPod. The device joins the award-winning SoundDock system, which the smaller sibling aims to match on audio quality, despite its size. Bose engineers designed a new acoustic package, new electronics and a new power source fo... More...

Why limit your portable music to MP3s? The newly released RipFlash DXfrom PoGo Products gives you a choice of formats for your digital tunes. Billed as the world's first digital music player to offer encoding inthe WMA format, the RipFlash DX will record audio from almost any possiblesource: your P... More...

GelaSkins has announced the release of custom covers for the iPod touch, iPod classic and third-generation iPod nano. The company's covers are full-color appliques that protect the surfaces of the iPods with intricate designs created by modern and classic artists. Each one costs $14.95. GelaSkins a... More...

TOKYO -- Japan's Takara has developed a low-cost unit that's intended to bring your music to life on a television screen in a similar way to the visualizers built into some music playback software applications. Big-Screen Tunes The Music Player Television (MPTV) device connects to the headphone soc... More...

All the advances in digital music players, accessories, and services are bound to be music to the ears of any music lover. But tech journalist Dawn Chmielewski steps in to inject a sour note. It's a matter of compatibility. And it boils down to this: Not all hardware and music services play well tog... More...