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SanDisk have declared a new solution for record labels to sell their music on, the SlotMusic Card, already signed with four major music labels (EMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group) the new SlotMusic card which is actually a MicroSD compact memory card will feature entire albums, so you just stick it in your music-player/phone and you’re good to go. Walmart and Best-Buy have already signed up to sell those sticks for the upcoming holidays time, and now with CD sales slowly dying, not to mention vinyl, the SlotMusic is the last resort for trying to keep multimedia trade on a physical media.
The SlotMusic is not special by any means, it’s just a pre-loaded MicroSD with an album on it, probably MP3 Format and definitely without any DRM restrictions.
The first bulk of albums to be released will be 29 albums from the four included labels which include mostly “current pop artists including Rihanna, Ne-Yo, Robin Thicke, New Kids on the Block, Weezer, Usher, Chris Brown, Akon and Leona Lewis, … In a nod to older buyers, Elvis Presley is also represented.” (Wallstreet Journal)
Estimated pricing for an album is between 7$ and 10$.
It is yet to be known if this new format of music storage will end up like the mini-disc but it does seem like its heading the same way.

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