Deutsche Grammophon, one of the world’s most prominent classical music labels, and a subsidiary of Universal, has decided the wave of the future is high-bit DRM-free MP3 files. Deutsche Grammophon have launched their own web store, featuring 320 kbps MP3 files for its entire classical music catalog. Universal (as well as the U.K.’s EMI has also been experimenting with their ...
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Cool Stuff We Missed – 11/12/07
They’re big, bad, hungry, and they’ve come for your office supplies! Fierce Staple Removers [Stylehive] Sure, we can customize them, but can we use them with iTunes? Ha! Got ya there! Microsoft Offers Custom Zunes [Electronista] I thought this is what erasers were for? Ultraser dry board gadget [CoolestGadgets] I’ve heard of Meat Puppets, but this is ridiculous. Meat-made ...
Read More »Apple Lets The Led Out: Complete Zeppelin To Be Released For Under $100
Today Zeppelin, tomorrow The Beatles? Apple has announced that they will be offering “The Complete Led Zeppelin Collection” on iTunes, available for special pre-order now. The digital boxed set comes with 13 complete albums from the epitome of the rock band. In addition to the complete set, the upcoming greatest hits album “Mothership”, featuring 24 of the hardest rocking songs ...
Read More »Digital Jewel Box changing the face of portable media and album art
Sometimes, the days of holding a good old CD case in our hands as we listen to an album makes us yearn for simpler times when MP3 players only held a few gigs of data. This concept by David Friedman mixes the modern technology of digital displays, high powered PMP systems, and the days of old jewel CD case, to ...
Read More »EMI announces DRM-free, higher quality music on iTunes, The Beatles conveniently skirted over
After the rumors running wild for about 24 hours now, EMI and Apple finally announced officially that EMI will now be offering DRM-free music to be sold on iTunes, and a higer audio quality than was offered before. This announcement spurs memories of Steve Jobs and his rant on DRM on the official Apple blog. Now that EMI has decided ...
Read More »150 Lionsgate films added to iTunes video section
Good news for anyone who uses the iTunes Media Store to buy their digital videos: Lionsgate films are now available! It looks like Steve is still working on the major studios and their stupid reasons for not offering their videos online. With the addition of over 150 movies, the video section of the Media Store has now hit about 400 ...
Read More »Apple releases Vista only app, to fix iTunes
Apple has just released a Windows Vista only application. Oh yeah, it’s to fix a problem. Please don’t just jump to conclusions, just read and then think. With the new version of Windows, some problems have arrisen with iTunes. These problems include bad CoverFlow animation, purchased tracks being unplayable, and some iPod corruptions. Geez, just another problem with Windows Vista ...
Read More »So, what IS stopping Jobs from removing DRM from iTunes?
Today on the official Apple news blog, Steve Jobs writes about Apple’s involvement with DRM on songs sold from iTunes. Jobs says that Apple would jump at the chance for DRM-free music, but won’t for one major reason. Steve Jobs expresses how if Apple were to remove the DRM liscensing, the four major music companies would pull their music from ...
Read More »iConcertCal helps the music fan schedule his life
One of Lifehacker’s Downloads of the Day, iConcertCal is a cool little plug-in for the Apple app, iCal. The iConcert freeware embeds a schedule of artists from your iTunes library and synchronizes them with your calender so you can see when in the future your favorite bands are playing close to you. For an easier guide, just change the location ...
Read More »Macworld: Apple Keynote Speech
9:06- There is constant alternative pop music playing. Gnarls Barkley, Beck, Gorillaz, Sheryl Crow. The usual. 9:07- Booming voice, this baby is starting… or just telling us that we should turn off our cellphones. 9:10- No luck with wireless network signal. 9:13- I Feel Good by James Brown. It’s possible someone will have a seizure from all of these flashes. ...
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