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Guide To Cataloging Slotmusic Based On Aacr2 Chapters 6 And 9, Marcia Barrett, Jim Alberts, Cyrus Ford Zarganj, Steve Henry, Michi Hoban, Jay Weitz Jul 2010

Guide To Cataloging Slotmusic Based On Aacr2 Chapters 6 And 9, Marcia Barrett, Jim Alberts, Cyrus Ford Zarganj, Steve Henry, Michi Hoban, Jay Weitz

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In September 2008 SanDisk announced it would begin making music available for purchase on its microSD flash memory card format.1 The audio files on a slotMusic card are in MP3 format and are offered free of any digital rights management controls. In addition to containing an "album's" worth of music (i.e., a slotMusic release generally corresponds to a collection of music issued on other formats such as compact disc), a typical slotMusic card may come pre-loaded with images, video, text, MIDI files, etc. Each card contains 1 GB of memory (well more than what is required for the pre-loaded content) …