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LOOK MA, NO PC! Until now, adding new music to your MP3 player meant plugging the device into your computer and transferring songs off the hard drive. But next-generation audio players like the Digisette DUO-DX E-Cassette ($189) can record songs directly from a stereo system without computer software--or, for that matter, a computer. Just pop the DUO-DX into a stereo tape deck, hit the record button and automatically convert CDs, tapes or radio tunes into MP3 files...
...ASKED IT] Higher-end cameras can record short audio tags or crude video clips (really stills captured in quick succession...
...lawsuit by a Marin County, Calif., woman who discovered the disc wouldn't work on her PC. Music City settled the case without paying damages and agreed to label copy-protected CDs. More significant, Philips--the company that co-owns patents on the CD and licenses that ubiquitous "CD audio" logo--says it is considering yanking the logo from all copy-protected...
Americans bought 635,000 digital-audio players last year, up from just a few thousand in 1999, according to the market-research firm NPDTechworld. Electronics retailers sold 10.4 million CD burners (half of them installed in PCs), a 50% increase over 2000. Computer makers increasingly market their machines as rip-and-burn ready. Come June, you won't even need a PC to do the job. A firm called QPS is launching the first portable CD burner, called Q007, that copies directly from a CD player...
...digital-audio-player market, today's gadgets are smaller and lighter than their predecessors of just six months ago. The latest high-capacity units, like Archos' 20-gigabyte Jukebox Recorder, hold 4,000 tunes. The challenge for gearmakers like SONICblue, whose RioRiot is the nation's top-selling player, is to fend off Sony, Panasonic and Samsung. As these giants muscle in and as component costs fall, price wars will pressure smaller firms. "It remains to be seen if a SONICblue can sustain its brand," says analyst Susan Kevorkian of tech-research firm...