Gizmodo: jukebox

JB7 Digital Jukebox Lets You Rip Your Tunes Without a PC

Haroon Malik — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:40:00 EST

3ga has just announced the JB7 digital jukebox, which allows the user to directly rip CDs to its internal HDD, negating the use for a PC. Standard rip time is less than five minutes, and the JB7 is available in either 40GB ($586) or 80GB ($625) flavors. Other features include alarm clock mode, USB connectivity, 30 watts per channel amplifier, remote control and support for various music compression storage formats. Sure, the JB7 is neat, but at those extortionate prices? We think not. [Tech Digest]

CEDIA 2006: Crosley Digital Jukebox

Travis Hudson — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:45:51 EDT

I first heard about Crosley last month when we saw the iJuke iPod Jukebox. This was pretty sweet, but I stopped by the Crosley booth today and saw something even sweeter. This is the iTunes Digital Jukebox from Crosley.

It is a full-sized jukebox that comes loaded up with a large touchscreen and is powered by a Mac Mini. There are USB ports on the front of the jukebox for iPod, keyboard, or any other device. You can network the jukebox to your existing network to stream music, rip music directly to it via CD, or connect to the iTunes music store or any other music service to get the beats flowin'. This comes loaded up with a basic Mac Mini and touchscreen for roughly $5,000 and it should be shipping in a couple months.

Product Page [Crosley]

Sky IM-U130 Jukebox Phone

Jason Chen — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:45:33 EDT

The IM-U130 from Sky, a Korean company, can play 20 hours of MP3 files, has a 2 megapixel camera, 512MB of internal memory, and Bluetooth connectivity. It's also got a click-wheel like control in the middle, round buttons, and a medium-sized candy-bar body. There's even a matching headset that goes with the phone, no doubt to pump up its jukeboxing capabilities.

The IM-U130 is only available in Korea, but this phone looks like one we wouldn't mind having in the States as well. – Jason Chen

Sky bar-type jukebox phone 'IM-U130' [AVING via Mobile Mag]

Crosley iJuke Miniature iPod Jukebox

Travis Hudson — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:20:36 EDT

We first mentioned the iPod Jukebox last week, but if that one was a bit too big and expensive for your liking, this iPod jukebox from Crosley Radio may work out a bit better. The iJuke has an authentic look of a 1950's jukebox, stands 18 inches tall and uses the universal iPod dock adapter. It includes a remote and will be sold at Linens'N'Things this fall for $250. I'd like to see the Fonz try to bang on this jukebox. He would see the iPod instead of the traditional vinyl records and his head would likely explode. – Travis Hudson

Product Page [Crosley Radio]

Jukebox Station: iPod Connections, Seven Speakers, Blinkinlights

Charlie White — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:53:44 EDT

Take a look at the Jukebox Station, a 3-foot-tall iPod-ready music machine with FM radio, CD player, and an attractive array of LEDs designed by Saffire USA. There's a universal docking cradle inside for any iPod accepting such connections, and you can also hook up your video iPod to a TV using SVideo or composite outputs. And if you don't have an iPod, don't feel bad, you can connect any music player into its 3.5mm mini-jack input.

Two magnetically-shielded tweeters, a couple of midrange drivers and a six-inch sub blast out 72 watts' worth of sound from this mini jukebox, and it's all controlled with an IR remote. Plus, if you're worried about somebody jacking that 'pod, you can lock the window to the compartment where it sits.

At first we thought this was a full-sized jukebox, but even though it's just 3 feet tall, it's still a unique package for what is otherwise just another iPod speaker system, albeit one with ample power and seven speakers. Available at Target on October 2, it'll be a cool $699. – Charlie White

Product Page [Pacific Rim Technologies, via iLounge]

Olive Musica Wireless Music Center

johnb — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:57:57 EDT

I have an old Compaq iPaq Jukebox from, say, 2000, what still runs like a champ. It's basically the same as this Musica dealie, which is to say it has a CD/DVD ripper, can stream audio—the Jukebox's audio streaming was pretty primitive,though—and it stores music onto a hard disk. The Musica, unlike the beastly Jukebox, looks super cool and has a red-hot LCD and a 160GB hard drive, which makes me think that I might need to trade up on pretty soon.

Priced at $1,099, the Musica looks like a pretty interesting bridge between the PC and the home theatre.

Olive introduces Musica wireless music center [PlaylistMag]