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Sweetpea MP3 Player for kids

Don’t want your little one grabbing your iPod? I don’t blame you. Not looking forward to seeing your state of the art MP3 players dunked in water? Well neither do we. But the kids just can’t help but be interested in what you plug into your ears all the time. If you’ve got an Apple device, maybe they like the games, so it’s easy to see why they would be attracted to it.

Sweetpea has just the device for you, Baby’s First MP3 Player, a combination for durability and ruggedness perfect for little hands. The MP3 player  is a safe “non-toxic” device your kids can carry around with its oversized grip ring. The simple buttons make it easy for little fingers to press buttons and listen to the music they want. No longer do you need to worry about them banging it around, dropping it, or losing it. The design is purposely oversized and created with single-piece design of hard rubber that is FDA approved.

There is a menu for parents to adjust volume, so that the player will not drive you mad when it plays the same song over and over and over and over….well you get the picture. For $50 you can give your child the power to control their music while keeping your music player a very safe distance from curious hands. It’s also a great way to get your kids involved in technology, safe for kids 0-6 yrs of age.

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Belkin Bluetooth Music Receiver

Having a laptop or desktop computer in the room that you’re in to play music is nice, but not always possible. The time it takes to set up your laptop or desktop and then play music can be a problem if not troublesome when worrying about battery life. Interestingly some are even happy just connecting their mp3 player to smaller speakers, but the audio comes out so awkwardly that you might as well put a pillow over the speakers because the clarity is just so muddied.

For those of us that enjoy the clarity and quality of good sound, we’d spend hundreds to thousands of dollars on equipment to plug in our mp3 players in order to play  music. Some of this equipment is easy to find, others is just troublesome and not everyone is sure about compatibility. Fortunately there is a now a solution that solves all of the above problems. The Belkin Bluetooth Music Receiver ($50) is a standard Bluetooth device that receives the streaming data wireless and plays it on whatever stereo or sound system you happen to be using.

Considering the price tag, it seems like a no brainer that this would be the way to go. The device comes with 3.5mm to RCA and 3.5mm to 3.5mm cables to connect to nearly any piece of audio equipment. For those asking how far the distance, is 33 feet far enough for you? So now you can play music where your friends are without having to place them where your computer is, and you can save a ton of money from all the expensive audio equipment that you’d otherwise need. This seems like a great entry price point for music fans.

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If you’re like me, then All CD Covers might be the place to stop in order to fill the missing void of album art you might have in your playlist. With over 100,000 album art and growing, there is a good chance you’ll find what you need.

As an added bonus they also offer movie and game cover art for all of your media. It’s a nice one stop shop to get yourself caught up and make your file listings attractive and cataloged just right.

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So how does Muzzic differ from it’s competitors, and how does it hope to gain users’ loyalty? They’ve got the content issue fairly well covered; their program crawls YouTube’s catalogue, logging all the songs by title and artist. The search seems pretty comprehensive – even odd little things like Kutiman’s Thru You series, and Swede Mason’s hilarious oddities are recognised.

There’s also a little sidebar to browse user’s upload channels by genre – this is pretty limited though, and there’s no way of knowing what you’re going to find in one particular person’s upload list. They work fairly well as mini radio stations or preset playlists though. You can build your own playlists, a single track at a time, or pick tracks to play from your search results. Muziic’s player also brings down the video for whatever you might be watching and plays it in a tiny little window next to the progress bar.

So is it any good? It’s better than last.fm for the fact that you can pick your own specific tracks, rather than have to listen to something like what you had in mind, but essentially it’s like a miniature version of a YouTube quicklist, nothing massively innovative, and more limited than SongBird in that it only draws down from YouTube – a massive catalogue,  granted, but not compared to pulling down tracks from the whole web, especially now YouTube has vowed to take down all the content from PRS artists. Not having any audio ads is nice, but the playlist management is so much more comprehensive and cool on Spotify that I’d bear Roberta whining on at me, as well as their more limited catalogue for the privilige of playing through my search results and not having to add tracks to a list one at a time. There’s no music discovery functionality, and worst of all, the tracks occasionally just stop playing for no reason.

All in all a nice try, and probably worth experimenting with before you go back to Spotify.

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