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It looks like the proposed tax on iPods to support musicians has finally been put to rest: Last summer, music industry officials, retailers and consumers all debated the merits of the Copyright Board of Canada’s tentative decision to place a levy on iPod’s and other MP3 players ‚Äì a tariff that depending on the amount [...]

CES: Wadia Digital will introduce what they claim is the world’s first all-digital iPod dock. According to Wadia, this means it can offer CD-quality from full-resolution file formats. The iTransport (SRP: $349) turns your iPod into a high-end media server by providing a bit-perfect digital audio output to an audio/video system, bypassing the player’s internal [...]

What’s better than free dj software for Mac and PC that works with your iPod? Free dj software for Mac and PC that works with your iPod that doesn’t suck – which is what you get with Beatport Sync. Native Instruments, which makes the leading DJ software Traktor, and Beatport, an online music service for [...]

by James Lewin The market for handheld devices such as Palms and Pocket PCs is tanking. The worldwide handheld device market posted its fifteenth consecutive quarter of decline in shipments. According to IDC, vendors shipped 728,894 handheld devices in 3Q07, 39.3% less from the same quarter a year ago. “The handheld device market has been [...]

A new version of Expressivo text-to-speech software has been released. New with version 1.3 is integration with iTunes, making it easy to automatically translate text-to-speech and get it on your iPod. Any text read by Expressivo is automatically added to your iTunes library as an audio file. Texts read by Expressivo can also be played [...]

Portable video players, like Apple’s latest iPod nanos, are going mainstream, according to a report from Parks Associates. Worldwide shipments of portable video players will grow at an annualized rate of 30% over the next five years, reaching 132 million units shipped per year in 2011: The massive adoption of portable video players, with over [...]

Sick of listening to those 8-track tapes in your private jet? Rockwell Collins has introduced two new iPod integration solutions for those of you with jets. “Now passengers can make the most of their iPods and iPhones as integrated entertainment devices on board the aircraft,” said Rockwell Collins’ Tommy Dodson. The new iPod Solo Station [...]

Here’s a roundup of portable media news for Saturday, Sept. 15th: TorrentFreak has an expos√© on Media Defender, publishing internal emails that appear to show how the company created a website and leaked copyrighted content to entrap people into infringement. According to TorrentFreak, “The sole purpose of the site is to trap people into uploading [...]

The Wall Street Journal has an article today that suggests that iPods and MP3s are ruining pop music. The idea is that the dynamic compression that has become popular to make music sound louder, combined with audio file compression, which throws away details of the music, have combined to make pop music horrible. According to [...]