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Regardless of the fact that music today, for the most part, just isn’t very good, the four major music labels and SanDisk are teaming up to release albums on a special version of SanDisk’s CompactFlash memory cards, commonly used in digital cameras.

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Another ill-fated move at driving profit into a dying industry, the SanDisk slotMusic mini flash memory cards can be read by some cell phones and PDAs, MP3 players, car stereos and your computer with a USB adapter. Not that anyone will buy them except for a curious few, especially considering to start they’re only releasing 29 albums on the format — a pretty pathetic number to try to represent the vast amount of popular music available across a wide range of genres. Nonetheless, Usher, Weezer, Elvis, and the veritable legend Akon (jokes!) are some of the artists that will be accounted for in the initial launch, which is due before the holiday season.

Personally, I think it’s going to be a hideous failure, invoking nightmare flashbacks of the long deceased Mini Disc, and here’s why. Read More ›