| PCworld
| Music
in a Flash | If the hard disk in your iPod breaks, you may
wish you had a flash memory-based music player. But should it be an iPod
Shuffle, or something else? |
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PCworld
| The
Playlist: Is your hard drive more MP3 than PC? |
Senior Associate Editor and resident music geek Eric Dahl keeps an ear
open to the evolving world of digital tunes. | Net Radio Made
Easy | Mercora offers a legal way to share tunes and a simple
way to DJ a Webcas |
| DesignTechnica
| The
Fraunhofer Institute, originator of the file format that brought the music
industry to its knees, is adding surround sound and copyright protection |
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SlashDot
| Sampling
Short Sequences From Long MP3 Recordings? |
| Wired
| How
to Tell if the RIAA Wants You |
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MIT
| MP4
| MIT Research Pushes Sound Standard for Personal Computers, Internet
to New Level |
| Wired
| Can
Surround Sound Save MP3? |
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C/NET
/ Reviews | MP3
Insider | An opinionated take on MP3 and the audio revolution.
| By Eliot Van Buskirk |
| Digg
| submitted by Tatter | Slyck
| AllofMp3.com
Down but Not Out | Reports of AllofMp3.com's death
are premature it appears. |
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Mi2N
| Fortuna
Releases Digital Music Player For Classical Fans | Maestro
Is the First Player to Properly Organize Classical Music |
| MusicNerve
| Recording
Industry Now Okay With Letting You Listen To Your CDs |
big brother In the past, the recording industry has made it very clear
they're not at all happy with the idea of people ripping songs off of legally
purchased CDs for the sake of listening to them from their computers, portable
music devices or burned CDs. |
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Digg
| submitted by digitalgopher | News
Yahoo | Denmark,
Norway and Sweden Pressure Apple to Open up iTunes! | First
France, now Denmark, Norway and Sweden plan to force Apple to break the
exclusive link between its iPod music players and online iTunes store.
The three Scandinavian countries have decided to take iTunes to their respective
government mediators, or ombudsmen. |
Engadget
Napster's
new 1GB Video Player for $50 supports MPEG, MP3 & WMA |
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ZDnet
Napster
offers subscribers MP3 player |
| Microsoft
confirmed that it will begin offering a digital music and entertainment
player, dubbed Zune, which will ship in late 2006 / ABCnews |
|
Carmakers
race to accommodate iPods / C/NET |
| Microsoft's
iPod killer to provide free versions of all your iTunes tracks / Engadget |
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CIO,
MA
Microsoft
Zune iPod Rival to be Built by Toshiba
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MP3
creator speaks out | BBC
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EE
Times
Microsoft
gives details on Zune | "While the two companies' offerings
are similar, the Zune includes at least one feature missing from the iPod:
the ability to move content wirelessly. Zune users will be able to transfer
tunes and photos between devices. Transferred songs, however, can only
be played a maximum of three times over three days, unless the person buys
it from Microsoft or other supporting music store" | |
ArsTechnica
It's
a start: one label offers one album without DRM | Yahoo
Music will distribute the new Jessie McCartney album in MP3 format. In
the music industry, this counts as a bold experiment |
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A
Real Music Store Sprouts Online | Wired
| Other Music, a Manhattan institution, will soon start selling
high-quality MP3s you might actually want to hear. Commentary by Eliot
Van Buskirk |
| Who's
Killing MP3 and ITunes? | Wired
| DRM is toast. Here are seven reasons why major record labels will
abandon it in 2007 -- and why that's bad for Apple. Commentary by Eliot
Van Buskirk |
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Give
Your Tunes a Digital Boost | Wired
| Product Review » MP3s are heavy on convenience but often
light on sound quality. Wired News reviews three of the best audio-enhancing
technologies designed to make your digital music collection sound larger
than life. By Eric Solomon |
| TorrentFreak
| Verizon
Bans P2P, Streaming Services and Online Gaming | |
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Euclid
Discoveries has announced they have the technology to reach video compression
rates at 460% over MPEG-4, with the hardware & software available now.
With this they can reduce a 23mb 30fps video down to 1519bytes. Awesome!
| From Digg
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| MP3.About.com |
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