SanDisk Introduces SlotMusic

The music industry might not have found their preferred way of distributing content in the current digital age (aside from iTunes anyways), but that doesn’t mean they aren’t trying different things. Next up is the news that SanDisk plans to announce a new format called slotMusic, and has the big four (EMI, Warner Music, Universal Music Group and Sony BMG) of the music industry working together with it. The basic idea is more or less bundling DRM-free music on memory cards. Each unit will contain an album, plus extras on a memory card that can be played on mobile phones, PCs and some portable MP3 players. SlotMusic is scheduled to be introduced in mid-October at retail outlets including Wal-Mart and Best Buy, so we won’t have to wait too long to see how this works out for the music industry and SanDisk.