Legal MP3 device sold at concerts

April 30, 2004 at 05:18 PM in

"The technology is quite simple: The music fan goes up to the touch-screen kiosk after the show and buys the keychain drive with a credit card from a dispenser alongside the screen. Once that's done, the miniature drive is inserted into a slot in the kiosk, and the recording — stored as MP3 files — is loaded onto the device's 128-megabyte hard drive. That is enough space for 110 minutes of music."

The device appears to be a simple USB-enabled memory stick. So, for all you uber geeks out there, like myself, you probably already have one hanging off your keychain. From reading the article, it seemed that downloading the music was free, and only the USB device cost money.

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birq @ April 30, 2004 08:59 PM

It said in the article that it was $10 for the music and $20 for the music plus the "pen drive." The thing that they seem confused about is the part about the pen drive. It doesn't appear to be a hard drive at all, but a USB flash memory keychain. There's a difference between a hard drive and USB flash memory. Not that the fine folks at MSNBC would know, or care.

cdog @ May 1, 2004 07:25 AM

yeah look at the pic, it says "buy show" on one button and "buy show + key (or ram?) drive" on another.

Anonymous @ May 2, 2004 11:09 PM

>"buy show + key (or ram?) drive"
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