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Olive Opus No. 5


Face it: Your CD collection is starting to look a little antiquated. It’s okay, you and that tower of discs had a good run – and Thriller is still a good album – but it’s time to move on and go digital.

How you go about making the transition depends on a lot of factors. Many companies have attempted to smooth the tedious process of ripping CDs to MP3s with a desktop computer, with some even going so far as to do it for you if you mail CDs to them. But at the end of the day, your music still ends up on a computer, not in your stereo. While there’s a whole other market for devices to stream audio from a computer to a home audio system, one company has taken the entire operation, from ripping to storage, and put it into one device.

How To: Connect Your iPod to the Xbox 360

You are a consumer gadget hound. You have the cool cell phone, the high-definition entertainment system, the keyless start on your new car. You also own an iPod and an Xbox 360, two top-selling products developed byrival companies Apple and Microsoft. Wouldn’t it be great if you could play some of the audio content stored on your iPod through your Xbox 360 so you could enjoy it over yourstate-of-the-art entertainment system? There is a relatively simple way to do this, with references by Microsoft to the iPod on the Xbox 360 support system even providing some of the cues. For thequick and dirty guide to getting your iPod to connect with your Xbox 360, read on.    

  • With your Xbox 360 connected to Xbox Live, you’ll need to download the optional iPod Support file posted on the Xbox 360’s online service. This file lets you listen to non-DRM (digital rights management) AAC files (Apple’s preferred audio format). To find it, select Xbox Live Marketplace, Game Downloads from the Xbox Live area of the Xbox Dashboard.
  • Choose All Games and select Alphabetical List of Games.
  • Choose Optional iPod Support twice and then Confirm Download to download the file.
  • With the download complete, choose Done and return to the Xbox Dashboard.
  • Connect your iPod to the Xbox 360 through the digital audio player’s cable.

Xbox 360 Dashboard

Olive Rolls Out New High End CD Player

Digital audio systems developer Olive Media Products today unveiled a new CD player which comes with an integrated 400GB hard drive. The new audiophile-targeted Opus is priced at $2,999 and should be available this month.

The Opus, said Olive, is designed to rip CDs placed into it in either lossless quality or MP3 format and then store the music files on its hard drive. As the Opus is geared towards high end audio users, features include DAC conversion driven by four Burr-Brown 24-bit/192kHz DACs with 8x oversampling, a temperature-compensated crystal oscillator for better clock reference and jitter elimination during recording and a linear power supply for keeping noise levels low.

Olive Symphony Review

Summary

At times, it helps to have curious friends with deep pockets. After reading about the Olive Symphony, I was salivating to try it. But at $899 ($1099 for the Musica with a 160GB hard drive), it was well beyond my limited budget. However, a friend of mine with adventurous spirit and money invested in one, and while staying with him, I persuaded him to let me test drive the machine.

 

Olive Adds Musica Player to Hi Fi Line Up

Olive Adds Musica Player to Hi Fi Line Up

Audiophile focused digital audio equipment company Olive today announced a new addition to their product line up. The new Musica wireless music center will be available in October for $1,099.

The Musica is designed to record, tag and archive a user’s CDs to the device’s 160GB hard drive, which can hold up to 40,000 songs. It is designed to fit into a home entertainment system, burn and copy music CDs, record music from analog sources, access music across a network, stream Internet radio and transfer music to an iPod.

This device follows up on the success of Olive’s Symphony classical music player.

And the Symphony Played

Here’s yet another new HiFi component trying to crowd itself into your home entertainment system. The Olive Media Products Symphony, a hard drive based unit with a wireless function, will be available for purchase in mid-August at $899.

The Symphony, Olive said, is a wireless digital music center which produces a quality high fidelity sound through proprietary technology which combines a 32-bit IBM Power PC for processing of audio in lossless quality, a fan-less design and a digital output to an audio receiver. Users can record music off of CDs and other media forms to the Symphony to be stored on the device’s 80GB hard drive. A database integrated into the unit can identify, tag and archive the music automatically.

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