American Music Sales Plunge 15% In 2007

The American music industry continued its tailspin with album sales plummeting 15% in 2007. Sales of physical and digital albums dropped to 500.5 million units, as the music industry faced a shortage of quality releases and competition from video games, which have been on a tear. The results marked the lowest tally and the steepest decline since Nielsen began publishing estimates based on point-of-sales data in 1993. The peak year in...

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Wadia Digital Announces iTransport iPod Dock

Wadia Digital has announced the iTransport, a new player that they claim is the “market’s first digital dock to retrieve a direct digital signal from an iPod.” As a result, the audio signal remains pure and unadulterated, providing CD-quality resolution from full-resolution file formats such as .WAV and Apple’s Lossless .m4a. The iTransport turns any currently available iPod player into a high-end media server...

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