SanDisk SlotMusic MicroSD Card Touted As ‘Innovative, New Physical Music Format’

Sandisk have announced what they term as being a ‘new physical music format for the 21st Century’ in the form of the new SanDisk SlotMusic MicroSD Card which will come preloaded with DRM-free MP3 music from the likes of EMI Music, SONY BMG, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group.

Set to become available via (notably) Wal-Mart and Best Buy in the US, with a European roll-out following thereafter, SanDisk’s SlotMusic MicroSD Card’s are an interesting take on the delivering of digital audio content in physical format in an age where the majority of us have become well versed with ordering (and immediately receiving) digital music online and, in this respect, it’ll be interesting to see quite to whom this new medium will appeal.

According to SanDisk’s press release, the SlotMusic cards, which offer consumers ‘an immediate, tangible, and high quality alternative to CDs and digital delivery’, will sport 1GB of capacity – allowing for high quality MP3 files recorded as 320 kilobytes per second (kbps) to be supplied along with possible video content - and will happily except additional files should the end user wish to add to the music supplied allowing them to create what SanDisk terms as being ‘a personal plug-and-play media library’.

No word as yet concerning specific release dates for either the US or Europe or, for that matter, unit pricing but it is expected that the pricing of SanDisk’s new SlotMusic MicroSD Cards will be comparable to that of CDs.

[via Press Release]