MP3 and Digital Music News

New Sony Players Drop Price to Match iPod
It was only last October that I wrote about Sony's "new" digital music portables. Both were unimpressive looking devices and had very high prices for flash players. The Sony NW-E99 and NW-E95 sold for $300 for 1GB and $255 for 512MB respectively. The Sony NW-S23 S2 Sports Network Walkman sold for $230 for only 256MB.

Hide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill
Microsoft's leafy corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, is beginning to look like the streets of New York, London and just about everywhere else: Wherever you go, white headphones dangle from peoples' ears.

Digital Networks: PC to Stereo
"Music wants to be free!" may be the rallying cry of the digital-music revolution, but all those MP3s can easily end up in a cage of a different sort -- the trusty home computer.

iTunes Prices Too High
Do you know what I think? I think the prices for paid digital music downloads are too high. I have thought this for quite awhile, in fact I said it way back in August of 2001 - long before iTunes appeared and when Napster was a free file sharing service - in an article titled 6 CDs a Year.