{"id":1324,"date":"2009-02-14T00:17:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T05:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2009-02-14T00:17:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T05:17:03","slug":"ayumi-hamasaki-releases-next-album-on-usb-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/14\/ayumi-hamasaki-releases-next-album-on-usb-drive","title":{"rendered":"Ayumi Hamasaki releases next album on USB drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always liked <a href=\"http:\/\/avexnet.or.jp\/ayu\/index.html\">Ayumi Hamasaki&#8217;s<\/a> music. And to see that her next album, will be released on a USB drive (instead of a CD; do they still release albums on cassette tapes?), is simply great news. You get a diamond-studded two-gigabyte thumb-drive, with the songs only taking up a mere 800MB (for 13 tracks, 6 videos, and the lyrics booklet). Its expected to sell anywhere between 4,000-5,000 Yen (RM156-195, so a lot pricier than a CD, which normally retails for RM40), and no word if the songs are DRM-free, what quality the MP3&#8217;s are, and so on. This is the first in Japan, and probably the first in the world!<\/p>\n<p>Now, the newest Honda City isn&#8217;t just shipping with a CD Player, but a USB port too. They reckon it&#8217;ll be easier to connect and charge your iPod. I reckon, that if more and more artistes start distributing USB thumb-drives, we&#8217;ll be seeing more USB ports in cars.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyograph.com\/news\/id-4427\">Ayu takes digital music to the &#8220;Next Level&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always liked Ayumi Hamasaki&#8217;s music. And to see that her next album, will be released on a USB drive (instead of a CD; do they still release albums on cassette tapes?), is simply great news. You get a diamond-studded two-gigabyte thumb-drive, with the songs only taking up a mere 800MB (for 13 tracks, 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[733,737,281,735,293,736,734],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ayumi-hamasaki","tag-digital-distribution","tag-drm","tag-honda-city","tag-music","tag-usb","tag-usb-thumb-drive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-lm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}