Palm TX Free Music promo

[Joel]

Get the Rolling Stones' new album "A Bigger Bang" on a SanDisk gruvi card when you buy a Palm T|X handheld. [details (http://www.1src.com/?m=show&id=1546)]

[Ricoh Tek]

Aren't they on the AARP tour this summer?

[dragonsgames]

(Dr. Evil voice) Right.... ;)

[Legodude522]

I like this idea! It lets Palm advertise the fact that Palms can be useful and more than just an organiser from the late 90s.

[LexLuther]

Better grab that Sandisk now because it will soon be a collectors item. News from someone who works in the NZ hospital where Keith Richards is hospitalised after his emergency brain surgery says he is on his last legs. His family arrived in NZ today to be by his bedside. :( Not good.

[Galley]

That truly sucks about Keith; I had heard he was doing better. Anyway, "A Bigger Bang" is a great album!

[MleB]

So the justification for buying a TX is now down to getting the equivalent of a $12 CD on a SD card for free?

I guess that has a higher 'cool factor' than, say, fixing any issues with the device and updating some of the imbedded software....

[Dick Tracy]

Mothers Day promo? I know some AARP qualified moms who love to go to Stones concerts.

[jburg1254]

I saw the Stones here in LA and they were terrific. For some old guys they sure know how to rock. Me, I threw my back out just dancing at my seat. Oh well.

[hrlaser]

The Gruvi format requires special players to play the heavily DRMd tracks on it. A special version of Pocket Tunes comes on it. You can copy the songs off it three times maximum but to do that you have to install the Yahoo music store / player engine on the card onto your desktop machine and put the card in a card reader. There are one minute samples of songs from five other Stones albums on the card, (if you want to buy any entire song you do it through the Yahoo store software for .99 cents a song or something like $10.00 for the entire album - Exile on Main Street, Some Girls, and three others..) .. plus a bunch of ultra high resolution publicity shots and the CD "booklet" from A Bigger Bang in .pdf format. Retail on the Gruvi card is about $35.00. Is a $12.00 CD and a few pictures worth triple the price of a regular audio CD? Ask yourself why SanDisk has only released this one album in the Gruvi format. And why if you copy the songs off it onto your peecee there's only one player that can play them.

Anyway, you can get around all that DRM (and all other).. nonsense rather easily with this innovative new gizmo: http://www.ikey-audio.com. If you can hear it, no matter WHAT the source (vinyl, CDs, DVD soundtracks, DRMd music, mic, you name it).. the iKey can rip it to mp3. Coolest device I've had my hands on in a looooong time. AC or battery powered, you could create a podcast with nothing more than a mic, the right cable connectors, and the iKey sitting in the middle of a corn field.

Harv