J. Lo brings latest album to Gresso flash drive
By Darren Murph 
posted Nov 5th 2007 8:33AM
posted Nov 5th 2007 8:33AM
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what format is used for the music: CD quality, MP3, AAC etc etc etc?
ridiculous price. by the way
Hell yeah.
It's not even worth the money.
I thought Adam&Eve sold sex products...that is, so I heard somewhere....
Wait... 1 gig Flash USB? That's at most $20 now. The "Brave" album is what, at most 21 songs of pure crud? So at most $21 although folks would probably want that cut down substantially.
21 3-minute songs at 256 kbps would be roughly under 120 Megs of storage, or 1/8th of the drive. It'll take roughly what, five minutes to slap that much of a disk image on the drive? Unless they got someone manually plugging 'em in and pushing a button... but even then I think $41 is a better price for this.
well mate, u forgot to read 'Mahagony' which adds to the price tag....or so i'd believe
This will go down in history as a double failure. Mrs Lopez album brave hasn't done well on the charts. Am I'm being generous here. Then on top of that, they put it on this piece of wood, and try to sell it for $70. They must be crazy. I can't see many girls in the barrio streets going crazy for this at the tune of $70. By the way, no album is worth $70. I don't care who the "artist" is.
This will be a future Woot!. My guess is it will be found in a "bag of crap".
Wish I had a woodworking shop. I would build one for myself(minus the J Lo crap).
I like the concept of the wooden USB disk as the plastic ones feel cheap and disposable.
I saw the box and thought it was pancake mix powder
african wood eh, why not latin american palm
tree wood? or coconutshell, she is after all from latin decent.
As for the price, mahogany IS a protected wood so I guess that would require certification and would push up the price, plus you can sell it as an antique later.
Engadget is wrong. It's made from a the rare and infamous Lopez Tree.
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/lopez_tree
hehe
African Blackwood huh? That's extremely valuable, rare, and the tree itself is endangered. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Blackwood - I only know because I have some carvings www.blackwoodconservation.org/carving.html in blackwood that were handed down to me from my Grandmother who lived there and pucrchased them in the 1950s.
Too bad for her. It doesn't matter if it's sold on cd, itunes, or given away for free, nobody wants this album it seems.
Whats with the link to the white strips being the first?
It Implies that they are the first when i know that the Barenaked Ladies have been doing the same thing for over a 2 years now. Guess what they sell them for the same amount as the cd cost. None of this overcharging other bands have tried.
Plus on top of that if you go to their concerts you can pay 10 extra dollars and wait 10 minutes after the show and you can have the full concert on a usb stick to take home.
And i forgot to mention DRM free.
Actually, WIZO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIZO) have done this in 2004 already.
Cool cool never heard of them before.
Thats the most rancid thing i have ever seen.
Someone should send Greenpeace after J.Lo for this shit
Or Sir Bob geldof
Makes you wonder what kind of phallic-shaped device Paris Hilton is going to release her next album on. Blackwood indeed.
I'll give them $70 for the privilege of NOT having to hear or see JLo ever again.
Remember music boxes?
Jellyshirts (rock) put out a 1 gig Flashdrive with .wav files and an 8 minute video (making of), plus picture booklet, liner notes, album art, live links and more. All for $17.98 and available on IndepenDisc.com
If an Independent Band can do it this cheap, it makes you wonder which corporate shirts are getting rich off this?
So Sony wasn't happy cramming a virus into what ever was left over on a CD. They now want an extra 300MB to do some massive damage. Not too concerned though, I wouldn't get J. Lo.'s music anyways. But with me, it's more that I just don't listen to her type of music than her herself.
What's with the Lady and the Tramp vibe in the box design for this? Does J.Lo want to eat the product? Twice?
not worth the money and bi$#% is using rainforest wood....real F@#$ing smart....god she is such a b.
Did anybody actually go to the Gresso site to read about this? They no for speak the English much good. "Gresso company has invented a new, earlier not-existing way to sell music" Aside from that statement being completely false, I was under the impression that 'new' and 'earlier not existing' meant the same thing. Huh.
"The Album was relise on October 2007".
Sorry J. Lo too late... Here in a little country called Uruguay (south america), a rock group (NTVG) was selling an mp4 player preloaded with the latest album material. I think this is not new (original) at all.