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The time where home theatre computers and expensive media boxes were the only ways of getting content onto your TV is over, and the market is filled with cheap solutions that will let you play music, photos and videos on your TV. One of the cheapest and most popular such device is the ...
Hardware
Western Digital
Media comes in various shapes and forms. So far I've mostly looked at music services, but as a heavy audio books user myself I couldn't ignore taking a look at some audio books providers as well. The obvious starting point is the service I myself have used for years; Audible .
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iPhone
Audiobooks
The Sansa Clip(+) is an awesome player. Small, cheap, yet very powerful and with very good sound quality. unfortunately the 15 hour battery is one of its weakest points, and you might need to charge it a couple of times if you're away for a few days. The cable that comes with it isn't ...
Hardware
SanDisk
anythingbutipod.com - 46 hours ago
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I have never been a strong supporter of
the screenless MP3 player. It is a niche product...
for those who want to just throw some tunes on a player and hit shuffle and I never really fell into this scenario. However, I will admit, I had a great time ...
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Cowon iAudio E2 Review
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Buying music isn't the only option these days and you can "rent" it from a subscription service for a pretty decent monthly fee. Rhapsody is one such service that also offers to sell you the tracks as MP3 if you want to keep them. Read on for a review.
Other
The Zune HD wallpaper contest in the forums produced some really great looking original wallpapers optimized for the Zune HD. The winner of the contest, ABI member Rom, created a spinoff of the “I’m a PC” Microsoft ad campaigns calling his series “I’m a Zune”. The picture pack features ...
Gadgets
Zune HD
Microsoft
Zune
Philips is a brand that hasn't gotten much attention on this site in the past, due to somewhat random product numbering, release schedules, retail outlets and generally a rather weird behavior for a MP3 manufacturer. They have some nice players however, especially some of the later ...
Home Theater
Philips
With Amazon MP3 and iTunes out of the way- the two immediate giants in the music store world- it's time to turn to some of the smaller services. First off is eMusic.
Online
Amazon
Digging though old posts I came across a review I started but never finished dating back to 2006. The photos are even watermarked before we had a logo.
The Zen Vision W was basically a larger version of the Zen Vision:M . They both had a great looking screen and awesome playback of native ...
Gadgets
Creative Zen
You might wonder what anything with "iTunes" in the title is doing on a site called Anything but iPod. Well, iTunes made the leap from DRM to DRM free earlier this year, and suddenly the biggest digital music store was open for use with any MP3 player- not only the iPod. 11 million ...
Software
iTunes
DRM
Most on board sound cards are not worth the PBC they are printed on. They are plagued with low quality chips and interference from other internal components. The best solution would be to go with an external fire wire solution. I and a lot of others in our forum use one of the AudioFire ...
Other
Having gone through an reviewed some of the most popular music organization applications for MP3 players it's time to turn to the other part of the equation: how to get a hold of media in the first place. Amazon MP3 is the first in a series of reviews that will test to see what media ...
Online
Amazon
It’s been quite a while since we reviewed the CrossRoads MylarOne X3/XB and X3i/XBi. While they were good sounding in-ear phones in the sub-$100 price range, their build quality was more than questionable. Jaben, the company behind the CrossRoads brand, certainly considered these ...
Gadgets
For me it has been an exciting 4 years of running ABI, checking out the latest gadgets, working with manufactures on improving their products, and most of all getting a chance to interact with a lot of great people in our community forums . All in all it was always hard to call this ...
Gadgets
Now that the major players (some pun intended) in the field have all been reviewed, it's time to take a look at them all and decide which is the recommended choice for music organization software.
Other
One of the most commonly suggested applications to review on ABi>> has been J. River's software. Unfortunately the Media Center software is $50 and I therefore ignored it at first. Then someone linked to the free Media Jukebox , a stripped down version of the software that will ...
Other
Microsoft just released firmware 4.3 for the Zune HD . It fixes some minor issues like speeding up the browser, does some preliminary support for upcoming applications and games and also adds predictive text input to make it a bit easier to type on the device. It also speeds up the startup ...
Gadgets
Zune HD
Microsoft
Cowon just dropped two of its new players in time for the holidays here in the US. The iAudio 9 or sometimes called the i9 is the next generation i7 but this time it looks like the buttons are much more accessible. The i7 was a great sounding player ( review ) with some great output but it ...
Gadgets
Cowon
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anythingbutipod.com - 23 days ago
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Today Creative Zii Labs released the first Android
firmware for the Creative Zii EGG based on Android...
version 1.6. The firmware is very beta and really only for the developers to start working on the OS for the Zii EGG. The basic Android ...
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Android 1.6 on the Creative Zii EGG [HD Video]
While not a competitor to any of the other music organizing applications I've reviewed lately, foobar2000 deserves somewhat of a "special mention" for it's computer side music playback capabilities. Read on for a quick review-slash-walkthrough.
