B&H has a new shipment of refurbished iPods to unload, which includes 8GB iPod Touch models for $149.95. Here’s a link to the full list of refurbished iPods at B&H.
Just in time for the new Netflix app, eh?
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During CES 2010 Tom Merrit and Rafe Needleman of CNET sat down with Karlheinz Brandenburg, co-inventor of MP3. Brandenburg is a professor at the Institute for Media Technology at Technical University of Ilmenau and also serves as director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Ilmenau.
MP3 is short for MPEG- 1 Layer 3 and is enjoyed by millions of people daily. Audiophiles often discredit MP3 for compressing and removing audio data found in the original recording.
Interview Discussion: (video is roughly 17 min.)
- Origins of MP3 (what was it trying to solve, how was it named, file extension?)
- Reasons for success of MP3
- Problems with MP3 (pre echo issue with percussive material)
- MP3 vs. AAC (“AAC is what MP3 should have been from the beginning”)
- How MP3 works (Psychoacoustics, masking, quantization noise)
- Audiophiles and MP3s
- Best encoding bitrate
- Blind testing
- Future of MP3… MP3 Surround, MP3 metadata databases
[via Audio Design Line, via CNET]
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TuneBug is a SurfaceSound device that turns hard surfaces in a speaker by using the surface to pass the sound waves from the device. TuneBug comes in a couple of different flavors. The TuneBug Vibe is a SurfaceSound speaker for desktop or tabletop use (or any other hard surface). All you have to do is plug in you iPod, MP3 player or other audio source and set the TuneBug Vibe down on the surface. There’s also a teaser for third flavor, the TuneBug Quake, on the TuneBug website, but no details yet.
The TuneBug Shake is one of the coolest devices that I saw at CES 2010. The Shake straps onto your bike (or skateboard, or whatever) helmet and uses the helmet as the hard surface to hit with sound waves. The Shake lets you rock while you ride your bike, skateboard, snowboard or whatever, but lets you still keep your ears in tune with your surroundings. [click to continue…]
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Today Amazon has announced the second annual “25 days of free” downloads at Amazon MP3 store. Amazon MP3 editors have handpicked Christmas songs and downloads will be available for free from now through Christmas. I will definitely be taking advantage. You can click here to get to the MP3 store.
Sample Album
Press Release
[via Amazon]
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