15/02/06

now that i have an mp3 player, it would be pretty cool to walk up to a kiosk when out shopping and get stuff fed straight into it, im assuming thats what these things are…

Sorry i diddnt make it along on Sun like I said I would, 2 missed ferries and I called it a night

17/02/06

nah, you walk up to the kiosk, choose a bunch of tracks and it burns you your own mix CD.

i have heard of places experimenting with what you’re talking about though, Al, and that would be 10x better, in my opinion. of course they’d all be strictly iPod compatible, which leaves us poor iriver and creative users out in the dark again.

it just seems like more of the same, though, in terms of the evolving face of selling music. the consumers pick up on new technologies, the industry declares that they’re “killing the artists”, and then a few years later actually realises that had they jumped on board at the right time, they could have completely cashed in, rather than watching their profits fall through the floor.

aaaaanyway, that’s another discussion. apart from trying desperately to rid myself of a $20 voucher given to me for xmas, i can’t remember the last time i even looked at a Sanity.

17/02/06

Sanity suck, but they do own HMV and Virgin… surely you can get rid of your voucher there?

It’s the Home Taping Is Killing Music backflip, but it’s funny to have watched it play out over the past couple of years. From what I’ve heard there are too many proprietary issues with putting music directly onto an ipod, not the least of which is that there are problems with transfering that new music to the backup computer (at home). I think that’s what’s stalled the whole kiosk idea since it first emerged a couple of years ago.

It’s just a hot hits thing, but equally I’m not the target market.