July 23rd, 2008
Apple has once again released the iTunes New Music Tuesday list, and the line up is as complex as usual. Featured proudly at the top of the list is the Counting Crows with their Live from SoHo. Their description of the album:
In an ever-changing music industry where most bands are as capricious as their […]
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July 18th, 2008
One of the biggest debates in today’s music industry is the debate of Digital Rights Management: The practice of putting restrictions onto your music that states what you can and can’t do with a song. If you’ve bought a song from the iTunes Store or subscribe to a music service, you’ve most likely bought a […]
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July 17th, 2008
What’s the key to fight the ultra-mega-super-giant iTunes? According to eMusic, social networks. eMusic will start adding links to their song pages where you can easily share your song of choice with the rest of the world, or just your friends. You’ll soon be able to share the song through del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook, and Twitter. […]
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July 17th, 2008
For the iPhone users in the audience who are still a little mad that Apple still hasn’t included stereo Bluetooth (also known as A2DP), you are now able to use your Bluetooth headphones with your iPhone and iPod touch, but there’s a catch (as always). You must spend $62 to get a Bluetooth adapter who’s […]
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July 15th, 2008
If you haven’t heard (and really, by now you should have), Apple released this new fangled thing called the iPhone 3G. Not sure if it’s hit the major markets of if any of them have sold… Anyways, the bigger news in the digital market is that iTunes 7.7 was released, and PLEASE hold your applause. […]
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July 11th, 2008
The term “podcast” is so 2007, as is evident with Belkin’s latest product, the Belkin GoStudio (it was originally to be called “Podcast Studio”). The GoStudio is, essentially, a mixer that you can take on the go with you. Featuring an XLR and a 1/4″ microphone jack for the compatibility with your setup, the GoStudio […]
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July 11th, 2008
Who said the digital music market is just iTunes? Apparently, Activision wants to see if they can shake things up by making their own online music store. Now, what would a gaming company have to do with music downloads? Well, not much… Until you consider the fact that Activision is the publisher of Guitar […]
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July 9th, 2008
On another b5media site (and my previous home), High Def Delight, Christopher Swenson wrote an article essentially saying that it is time to ditch MP3. MP3 is quite the ancient file format (approved in 1991) yet it is the prominent file format in the digital music market as almost all digital music players are referred […]
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July 8th, 2008
For all two of you who can’t play music on your phone in some method, you now have yet another choice of phones, though it may come with a catch. Nokia’s 8208c is set to be released to China for sure and, possibly, “elsewhere.” Running on CDMA and EV-DO Rev. A networks, both of which […]
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July 1st, 2008
You may remember Rhapsody as the people who brought you the $15 unlimited music plan where, as long as you paid $15 every month, you could download as many songs as you wanted. Well, that plan had DRM (digital rights management) so iPod users and users of MP3 players who didn’t have a Plays For […]
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