SanDisk announced Sansa Clip+ MP3 Player. Is much like the slotRadio player as comes with a new microSD memory card slot that enables consumers to listen to thousands songs effortlessly without the hassle of downloading and syncing. It is fully compatible with the slotRadio and slotMusic cards as well as any microSD loaded music.

Some other features include wearable clip for hands-free portability, large OLED screen, built-in microphone, and support for files such as MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and Audible files (for audio books), in both unprotected and protected files.

The Sansa Clip+ MP3 player will come in the colors blue, black, and red will retail for $39.99 for a 2GB version, 4G for $49.99 , and 8GB for just $69.99.

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These days there are mice that cater to everyone from gamers to road warriors, so why should the DJ’ing community be left out? The DJ Mouse from DJ-Tech is designed to work with the company’s Deckadance software and features a multi-function jog wheel for scratching or cuing up tracks that’s also back-lit with a glowing blue ring making it easier to see in the dark. The DJ Mouse also features a scroll wheel and a set of standard mouse buttons that can be configured to control a host of other features in the Deckadance software like triggering loops and samples, controlling knobs and faders or setting cue points. $79 available directly from DJ-Tech.

Window/Linux: Fixing a tag here and there is one thing, but what if your MP3 collection is in need of a deep and serious massaging to get things in order? MP3 Diags lets you dig into the guts of MP3s.

The creator of MP3 Diags was frustrated with how limited many of the MP3 repair tools he used were and how many of them used tags incorrectly or inserted their own tags into the MP3s. MP3 Diags is a powerful MP3 editor that not only allows you to diagnose and fix surface problems with your MP3 collection such as incorrect track numbers or song names, but it digs even deeper and enables you to repair things like problems with the VBR header and other hidden but important aspects of your music collection.

If you’re a bit hesitant to mess around with MP3 Diags but you’d really like to get at least the albums, song names, and tracks cleaned up in your collection you definitely want to check out previously reviewed iTune’s add-in Tune Up.

MP3 Diag is freeware and available for Windows and Linux.

Albiet a concept design, this is one portable looking USB vinyl record player. Comprised of just two parts, a base and top, the USB vinyl record player is meant for table top play back. Granted, you’ve got to ask yourself who’s in such need of a portable solution, but for the die hard vinyl fan who just can’t stand MP3 this is a sure bet.

Published on Pyott Design they give you 3 easy steps:
1) Carry around & store as needed. To play separate base and player via side button.2) Place record on base spindle and reattached top player

2) Plug in power jack to USB port and additional audio jacks if needed. Will play 35/45 RPM

3) Place needle head on desired track and play.

The motivation to create MP3 Diag was born out of fru

stration with existing solutions to diagnose and tag a mp3 collection properly. The developer did a thorough analysis of many existing mp3 taggers and came to the conclusion that many used non-standard ways of storing data. These errors were still tolerated by most mp3 players but could cause lockups or even crashes on others. MP3 Diag can analyse a mp3 collection and perform the following operations on each mp3 file:

• Adding / fixing track info, including album cover; information can be retrieved from several sources: Internet, clipboard, file name, local files, and (obviously) keyboard
• Correcting files that show incorrect song duration
• Correcting files in which the player cannot seek correctly
• Converting characters for non-English names
• Adding composer name to the artist field, for players that don’t handle the composer field
• Renaming files based on their fields
• Changing word case for track info

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