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San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Technology Testdrive Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2000 by Langberg, Mike

Sep. 17--JUKEBOX A BREAKTHROUGH FOR MP3 MUSIC COLLECTORS: Get ready for the next chapter in digital music.

The wildly popular MP3 format for compressing and sharing digital music files is already remaking the music business, amply demonstrated by the recent firestorm surrounding the MP3-swapping Web site called Napster.

What's kept the volume from getting even louder is that MP3 music has largely been imprisoned inside personal computers, despite two years of new gadgets that tried and failed to offer the right combination of affordability, ease of use and reliability for moving MP3 into the real world.

Now, there's a product that flattens the PC jailhouse door: the Nomad Jukebox from Creative Labs, officially launching Monday.

The...

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