Creative has announced the Zen WAV MP3 player. The 2GB WAV has suddenly appeared on their website without any fanfare and features an all-aluminum chassis with a 1.5-inch, 65,000 color TFT LCD screen, a built-in mic with line-in dubbing, FM tuner, and houses micro stereo speakers. Although it’s called the WAV, it does plays back MP3, WMA, and AVI in...

FM transmitters, for listening to your iPod in the car, don’t usually work all that well, but for those of you who have plunked down your hard earned cash for such a device, Belkin has debuted a new service to help you find the best empty station in your locale. Belkin’s new online tool, My Best FM, locates the best FM radio frequencies from which to...

Schaack Audio Technologies has released Quad, a “Vinyl-controlled MP3 Mixing and Scratching Software” solution, which allows connecting up to four turntables to a PC using Windows XP or Windows 2000. With Quad and an ASIO soundcard with Phono Inputs (1 Stereo pair per Deck) or Line In’s (with Phono Preamp), you can mix and scratch up to 4...

EXCLUSIVE! Seven UK dance music download stores have joined together to create the Dance Download Alliance (DDA). The seven members, 3Beat Digital, Audiojelly, DJdownload, Juno Download, TrackitDown, Trax2Burn and Xpressbeats, have joined together to counteract a proposal offered to dance labels and distributors by Beatport who offers an exclusivity arrangement,...

Hypebot, an online music blog, has taken on eMusic in a multipart series that attempts to uncover some of their strategies and pricing models. The 2nd largest online music retailer is clearly not amused by the investigative report, and has responded tersely to Bruce Houghton’s postings. If you’re interested in looking under the hood of eMusic, then...