AudioFeast Announces Support for New iriver H10 5GB Portable Music Player; Portable Internet Radio Provider Syncs with New Hard Drive MP3 Player to Spur Digital Audio Customer Satisfaction.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- AudioFeast today announced that their industry-first portable Internet radio Listening to audio broadcasts via the Internet. There are more than 4,000 broadcasts available on the Internet that can be streamed and played by a software media player in the computer or in a stand-alone Internet radio with the software built in. service for MP3 players A digital music player that supports the MP3 format, which was the audio format that started a revolution in online music downloads and distribution. All portable music players, the iPod being the most popular, support MP3 along with one or more other audio formats. , mobile devices and PCs, is compatible with iriver's just-launched digital audio device, the H10 5GB* MP3 player. Seen as a direct competitor to the Apple iPod Mini A hard disk-based digital music player from Apple. Introduced in 2004 and discontinued in 2005, the Mini was the first smaller model of the iPod. Although its hard disk capacity was limited to a maximum of 6GB, the Mini players were very popular. See iPod. , users of the H10 5GB player may access AudioFeast's growing list of Internet radio content and enjoy a vast library of music and entertainment programming. AudioFeast is the first to market Internet radio service for portable digital audio players See digital music player, digital media hub and digital media server. . The service presents the most popular Internet radio stations, nationally syndicated shows and an assortment assortment /as·sort·ment/ (ah-sort´ment) the random distribution of nonhomologous chromosomes to daughter cells in metaphase of the first meiotic division. as·sort·ment n. of independent media outlets and programs from around the globe in a commercial-free radio format. With a rapidly growing list of over 400 music, news, sports and entertainment channels from more than 50 content partners, the AudioFeast service is a cost-effective way for consumers to gain easy access to music and entertainment without incurring the effort and expense of having to find, purchase and download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. each and every song or radio program. "As a leader in the delivery of portable Internet radio to personal digital devices, AudioFeast is excited about iriver's new hard drive MP3 player," said AudioFeast CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Tom Carhart. "AudioFeast, coupled with iriver's new player, is enhancing the portable audio device experience, both by re-igniting the serendipity serendipity happy finding of an unexpected object or solution while searching for something else. of radio for entertainment enthusiasts and by offering our service on powerful, state-of-the-art MP3 players." AudioFeast previously announced in November 2004 a strategic collaboration with iriver to deliver compatibility with the company's iFP-700 series and iFP-800 series flash-based MP3 players. "iriver is a global leader in the portable digital audio players market, and together with AudioFeast we're changing the way people enjoy listening to music and entertainment," said Jonathan Sasse, president of iriver America. "With access to AudioFeast's growing list of more than 400 radio channels, iriver consumers can enjoy hours and hours of their favorite Internet radio programs, shows and music, wherever they go." iriver H10 5GB users can utilize the player's intuitive user experience, color display and touch strip control to download the AudioFeast firmware A category of memory chips that hold their content without electrical power. Firmware includes flash, ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM technologies. When holding program instructions, firmware can be thought of as "hard software." See flash memory, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM and FOTA. (www.audiofeast.com/iriver) and benefit from an aggregate of programming from more than 50 AudioFeast content partners. Accessible via a variety of subscription plans starting at $2.99 per month, AudioFeast customers receive hours of music and entertainment content each time they sync their MP3 player. AudioFeast content is constantly refreshed re·fresh v. re·freshed, re·fresh·ing, re·fresh·es v.tr. 1. To revive with or as if with rest, food, or drink; give new vigor or spirit to. 2. on a weekly, daily or hourly basis, depending on the show, so it's always ready to listen to anytime, anywhere. About AudioFeast AudioFeast is first to market with a portable Internet radio service for MP3 players, mobile devices and PCs. The service features more than 400 channels of "all you can listen to" music news, sports, and entertainment radio programming. Built on its patent pending Virtual Broadcast Network, AudioFeast delivers popular radio programs to a variety of portable devices, and over networks, with far greater ease-of-use, reliability and cost efficiency than traditional distribution methods. Founded in 2002, the company is privately funded. For more information call 650-940-9418 or visit www.audiofeast.com. * 1GB equals 1 billion bytes, not all drive space available for file storage. |
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