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This week mark’s the 6th Birthday of the iPod. 110 million have been sold so far and to celebrate here’s the original launch video followed by a tour of the hot new iPod iTouch.

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Want the best prices on CD’s and downloads, but don’t feel like spending an hour online visiting Amazon, BestBuy.com, CDUniverse, etc?
Biggerboat.com may be just what you’re looking for.
Still in beta, Biggerboat searched quickly through most of the bigger and cheaper music sites and delivers side by side results with links so you can click through and purchase quickly…and cheaply.
While Biggerboat specializes in music and DVD’s, Gooogle’s Froogle is often worth a try for low prices on almost everything.

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Want to save 20% to 70% and more on your next Ipod, Zune, Creative Zen or other portable music player? It’s actually pretty simple. Buy refurbished direct from the manufacturer. Refurbished can mean many things. Sometimes its returned merchandise after someone changed their mind or from a store that bought to many. Sometimes its a broken player that has now been fixed. Often its just that they made too many; so they discount to make room for the next model.
Most “refurbished” players are guarunteed to look and play like new. Usually the guaruntee provided is the same as if …read more

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The one day sale is over.  Check back often and we’ll let you know about the best deals in digital music and players from across the web! 
Online discounter Woot.com has 30G Zunes with for mere $79. These are brand new Microsoft Zunes with audio and video plus all the wireless Zune bells and whistles. The only catch is that they are only available in the apparently unpopular color brown. At 50% or more off retail, who cares? The deal is available today (Monday) only.
If you miss the sale you can still get 50%-80% off other players by following …read more

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iTunes dropped the price of DRM free downloads from $1.29 to 99 cents and says its adding more DRM free indies.
Strong sales at the new Amazon MP3 Store could make it second only to iTunes and a new affiliate program that pays 20% of sales could help.
We had a story on spammers using mp3’s to get past filters. BEWARE!
Napster released version 4.0 with some new features, but will anyone really care?
As Radiohead’s P2P numbers climb some consider their “pay want you want” release a failure. But is it?
The Coalition Of Independent Music Stores Top 200 Chart.
Here’s a sildeshow of cool …read more

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If you’re like me and trade a  bunch of mp3’s every week with friends, BE CAREFUL.   Spammers are now starting to send some of their “messages” as mp3’s.  These Pain in the #!@*’s  are doing mass mailings of MP3 audio files embedded with “stock tips” as a way to get unsolicited e-mails past your spam filter.
Your best defense?
Look carefully at who sent you the email and only open it if you know the sender.

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Do you have a blog, web site or even just a bunch of friends who love music?  If you do, you might be able to make a little extra Christmas cash selling downloads.
To help promote their hot new mp3 only download store Amazon will pay “affiliates”  20% of every sale.  An affiliate is just any web site or blog who signs up for free and links back to the download store.  Amazon gets free promotion and you get 20% through the end of the year.
After December 31st the commissions drop to 10%, but that’s still twice the 5% that iTunes …read more

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UPATED:  iTunes is lowering prices in its DRM free iTunes Plus store from $1.29 to $.99 per track effective immediately.  Also on tap is the addition of a lot more indie label product to join the EMI tracks already in the DRM free section.
It’s about time and we have Amazon and WalMart.com to thank for creating competition and forcing Apple’s hand.  Amazon in particular has a far wider selection of DRM free tracks than iTunes and often at lower prices even with the new reductions.

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I love my digital music – its cheap, portable and easy to use; and I love sharing how to find it and use it with you guys and gals. But sometimes I get nostalgic for vinyl. It looked cool, felt cool…OK it evened smelled cool unless you tried to burn it (that’s a story for another day.)
Jennifer over at Hippie Sounds shares an cool artist who is taking his love of the bog black discs to a whole new level with vinyl art. Check it out.
Janis Joplin

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UPDATE: More than 15,000 blogs with 12 million plus readers are participating in Blog Action Day. Check out some of the posts from our friends at the B5 blog network compiled by HippieSounds.com
Today October 15th, 14,000 + bloggers have pledged to stop blogging about whatever it is we usually blog about for a minute and blog about the environment. Many – including this blog and our sister blogs TheRockDose and Hypebot will also donate 100% of revenue generated today to an environmental charity. (In my case Greenpeace) It’s a token sum that I promise to add to personally, …read more

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