Word: mp3s
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...songs) and a new 40-GB ($500, 10,000 songs) mini-monster. Copying tracks over to the iPod is easy and almost automatic. A humbler travel buddy is the iRiver SlimX iMP-550 ($180). It looks like a regular portable CD player, but also plays CD-R-burned MP3s, each of which can hold 11 hours of music?enough to entertain you halfway across the world...
...with Fifty. But not on my MP3 player, because the files would play only on a few select brands of portable players. Tough luck, Philips. Add to this the fact that the number of burns per song is generally limited to about three, whereas one can burn bootlegged MP3s endlessly, and the option of downloading legally becomes even less tempting...
...have sagged in recent months, but many buyers are willing to shell out extra for everything from satellite radios (about $200) to sensors that warn you if the car gets too close to something ($700 and up) to portable hard drives that can hold 5,000 of your favorite MP3s for that big summer road trip ($800). "People want luxury. They want entertainment. They want convenience," says George Barris. He should know: the legendary car customizer designed the original Batmobile and once decked out a Cadillac limo for Elvis Presley with a TV, a record player and even a gold...
...pleading for sympathy. After a spoofed version of Madonna's new album, American Life, started circulating on the Net, featuring a recording of the Material Girl saying "What the f___ do you think you're doing?", a hacker took over the singer's website, Madonna.com and posted real, downloadable MP3s of every song on the album...
...that otherwise honest folks blithely steal music? For me, it started with Napster. I was desperate to hear an old Loudon Wainwright III tune that hadn't yet been rereleased on CD. I found it one day online--someone had converted the entire record into MP3s and kindly uploaded the songs. I downloaded the tune and then helped myself to a rare Duane Allman rendition of Please Be with Me. I had begun my descent into hell, or wherever it is that music pilferers go at the Final Download. I'd have been thrilled to pay for them, I rationalized...