Apple today announced that more than three billion songs have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes. The online store recently surpassed Amazon and Target to become the third largest music retailer in the US.
If you’re an AT&T mobile customer and like indie music, today is you’re lucky day. AT&T has just added eMusic’s catalog of more than 2 million indie label tracks to its over-the-air download offerings. And best of all, these tracks come free of any DRM or other restrictions.
You won’t find hits songs from major labels here. But if your tastes are a bit more eclectic, tracks purchased from eMusic Mobile are immediately sent to the your wireless handset (not all are compatible) with a duplicate copy available for download to your PC at no charge. …read more
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There are informed rumors everywhere that Microsoft is about to offer are least two major additions to its Zune line of portable music players.
One model has an 80G hard drive giving you plenty of room for all your music plus lots of video, photos, etc. At that size it also has enough capacity to back-up files or move them from an office PC to home for example. The largest current Zune has a capacity of 30G.
The other new Zune reportedly will be flash memory based giving it a much smaller capacity but also presumably a much …read more
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We admit that this has more to do with gaming than music, but after our recent articles on waiting to buy new electronics until closer to Christmas and waiting a couple of months to subscribe to XM or Sirius while the government approves a merger, this news seemed to fit.
There is pretty strong evidence that sometime around August 8th the price of the Microsoft Xbox 360 will drop by $50. It comes in response to a recent Sony Playstation price drop and amid rumors of some kind of Xbox/Zune music player hookup.
So wait a few days the buy your xBox360 …read more
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We also have the pleasure of editing another b5media blog TheRockDose.com.
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If like most of us you discover a lot of music online and wish there was an easier way to save, share and play all of it alongside the music you’ve already got stored on your hard drive or player, then MXPlay may be just what you’re looking for.
The newest version of MXPlay is an add-on to the Firefox web browser (Firefox is a feature rich alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer that I and millions of others perfer. You can download it for free here.) With MxPlay you can:
Listen in 3D audio
Listen to music from the web or iTunes
Browse the …read more
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Posting your vacation or birthday party footage on the popular video sharing site is one thing, but you may want to resist the temptation to add your favorite Twisted Sister song as a soundtrack.
The non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed suit against Universal asking a court to protect the “fair use and free speech rights” of a mother who posted a short video of her toddler dancing to a Prince’s “Lets Go Crazy”. Last month, YouTube informed the mother that it had removed the video after Universal claimed that the recording infringed on a copyright owned by the company.
The video …read more
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OurDigitalMusic and our other blog TheRockDose.com are part of the new b5media music channel of almost 30 diverse music blogs. Once or twice a week, I’m going to share a brief interview with one of the bloggers to help you learn more about them. Here’s our chat with B5 music blogger Sarah Cook.
Tell us about your your blogs.
First blog: www.rumorsinmusic.com
This blog covers music rumors, music news updates, and tour information for popular musicians worldwide.
Second blog: www.sheplaysmusic.com
This blog covers female musicians, and female musicians only. What are they
doing? Who are they dating? Where are they playing next? And everything
in between.
Why …read more
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Our article (see below) on waiting to subscribe to XM or Sirius while they sort out a possible merger was quoted by Spin as part of a good overview article on the subject. Check it out here.
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