MP3beamer Released

An anonymous reader writes "MP3tunes, Michael Robertson's new music venture, has released a snazzy linux music appliance called MP3beamer. The $399 box auto-rips CDs and imports MP3s and then connects to iTunes, Java devices, media receivers, web devices even WinCE units with handy feature to "sync" songs from server to remote machine for offline playback not just streaming - see screenshots. Last time Robertson launched something with "Beam" in the name it led to avalanche of lawsuits and more then $150MM in legal payments with BeamIt from the old MP3.com." It'd be excellent to get a review of one of these machines; looks like a good one.

Beamer?

[turtled]

Only MP3 Beamer I can think of is the iPod for the BMW.

Interesting, none-the-less.

$150MM?!?

[aendeuryu]

Picturing Dr. Evil, giggling and saying "Unless you give us 150 Million Million dollars!!! Mwahahaha etc. etc."

Re:Very interesting concept

[sabernet]

But according to Napster, iTunes can cost you 10,000$!!

Finally!

[MrAnnoyanceToYou]

A machine you can put on autopirate and it works! A new generation of AI!

Slashdot.

[Anonymous Coward]

Ads for nerds, stuff that doesn't really matter(exept to the advertisers)

My free solution...

[borawjm]

I use my roomates machine to stream and store all of my music. He doesn't notice and it cost me no money.

Did I mention that he's not very computer literate?

free schwag

[Lord_Dweomer]

"It'd be excellent to get a review of one of these machines; looks like a good one."

In other words, Slashdot editors want a free one to play with.

is $MM a Britishism? International unit?

[xtermin8]

$150 in M&Ms would not be so bad. If only my Ex-wife had only asked for that!

Re:Auto-rips CDs?

[syd2000]

Just pay a kid 10 cents per CD to drop them in the mp3beamer for you. [linspire.com] Like Robertson himself did.

Re:Very interesting concept

[Deekin_Scalesinger]

Thanks for this link. I did measure various components of my homebrew PC, but never thought of using a commercial outlet meter on it. I need to check that out. No matter what, I got a 3.0 GHz CPU and 9 fans - I know I'm leaking fuel out of it!

Re:$150MM?!?

[nacturation]

Notice the end of tv shows, now it would show MMV as the year for 2005.

And here I always thought that meant [Your] "Mileage May Vary", as in the show's creators thought it's good but everybody else on the planet likely thinks it stinks.

Re:$150MM?!?

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder, have you ever heard of laughter it is a typical response when someone tells a joke.

Yes, but laughter more frequently [m-w.com] occurs after a joke that is actually [m-w.com] funny [m-w.com].

Re:Beamer?

[exley]

Yeah, as soon as I saw this post on the front page, I knew there'd be someone who inappropriately started talking about BMW cars.

Re:And for $100 more...

[TLSPRWR]

You got a mac to play games? Like... games other than Warcraft and the Apple logo puzzle?

Please post pictures and a tutorial, I'm not sure if I believe this.