MP3beamer Released 191
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.
Very interesting concept (Score:1, Interesting)
Worth a look (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:$150MM?!? (Score:2, Interesting)
Where's the utility? (Score:3, Interesting)
hmm.. side note (Score:2, Interesting)
Sync to iTunes - How? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:re (Score:1, Interesting)
This is not a discount or cheap computer, it's just another expensive Mac completely stripped down so it looks cheap. At least it's not an eMac or iMac or whatever cute Volkswagon Bug-type crap Mac will try to overprice and get people who buy "cute" things to jump all over. At least they offer loans.
Re:Very interesting concept (Score:2, Interesting)
But he has a point, its 400 dollars for something you can write software to do.