Amazon has just launched their Mp3 Music store in the UK. The store can be found at http://mp3.amazon.co.uk. The simple-to-use digital music store offering over 3 million DRM-free (Digital Rights Management) songs which will work on any MP3 player including the iPod™- with top-selling albums from just £3 and individual songs from 59p.
Amazon Mp3 UK has all four major labels signed up, SonyBMG, Universal Music, EMI Music and Warner Music – and leading independents such as Cooking Vinyl, Harmonia Mundi, Beggars Banquet, The Orchard, Concord and IODA.
Greg Greeley, Vice-President of Amazon EU Retail said: “We’re excited to provide our UK customers with more ways to discover and enjoy great music. In addition to the millions of low-priced CDs available in our music store, Amazon MP3 now provides a vast selection of DRM-free albums and songs across every genre you can think of, ready to enjoy in seconds”.
After spending months in public beta and lots of changes to the ad supports music service, We7 is about to launch out of beta with a bang.
We7 have launched with a “Big Listen” campaign. This new service has some great new features including Free on-demand, unlimited access to full tracks and albums, “Search, Click & Play”, A ‘Celestial Jukebox’ with several million track, ‘Play Anywhere’ – a link and play system for blogs and websites, Users can create playlists, share with friends and buy mp3’s, Payments to rights owners and artists.
The first thing you will notice with the new site is that they have a completely new design. Other new additions include a Magazine, Blog and a much improved list of advertisers. Im sure we will be hearing a lot more from We7 in 2009!
A couple of weeks ago I had the nice people over at SanDisk send me their Sansa Fuze to review. The current price is $79.99 for the 2GB version.
First glance at the Sansa Fuze was not great, the graphics are very old school and when this is trying to compete with the classic ipod it does really look professional. In terms of controls as you can see it has the same type scroll wheel as the classic ipod, but when you are running through the menuing system it does seem to be a lot easier to understand and control than the classic ipod.
The key feature that for me blows the classic ipod out the water is the fact that iTunes is not needed and you can simply drag and drop you music, images and video onto the Sansa Fuze. Drag and drop makes moving files to and from so simple, plus allows the older generations who havent used iTunes much an easier option when trying to transfer music to their players.
As far as gadgets though, the Sansa Fuze is not in the same league as the apple ipod touch for exam, in which is the new toy on the market these days. However, the Sansa Fuze would be great for people of an older generation who are looking for a very simple, easy to use, lightweight mp3 player. I recommend the Sansa Fuze also for athletes who are looking for a cheap mp3 player in which they can go jogging with.
