Sep

21

Better Than We Know Ourselves

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Below is an extract from a fascinating article about Last.fm and its ilk. I’m now having a look at the MusicIP mixer.
Or is it looking at me?
Pitchfork Feature: Better Than We Know Ourselves
“Music is tribal in its essence”
Much like Ringo more than a decade ago, Last.fm— which launched in its present form in August 2005– […]

Sep

15

My biggest musical regret…

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In 2001, Kate and I made a big mistake: we bought tickets to see Depeche Mode at what was then the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester. It’s not that we dislike them, it’s just that we consequently did not have enough money to see James perform one week later at the same venue.
Ordinarily this would not […]

Sep

14

Sorry…

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I mentioned yesterday that I had signed up for another free trial with eMusic. Well, one of the Cocteau Twins tracks failed to download properly.
One feature of eMusic that certainly beats the iTunes Music Store is that subscribers can download the tracks they have bought as many times as they like, thus obviating the need […]

Sep

13

eMusic

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There’s been a lot of guff in the press lately about eMusic who have, apparently, just launched their UK arm.
I describe this as guff since I remember using their free trial some time ago to download albums by Cocteau Twins, the Pixies and Madder Rose. Today, I downloaded another 25 tracks using their free trial. […]

Sep

9

Last.fm…

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Okay, so I know that the rest of the world has been scrobbling for a while… let’s see how good this thing really is.
Firstly, the official Last.fm app for the Mac runs only on Tiger and could be better.
iScrobbler and Amua are a fine pair of programs that work together to achieve apparently better functionality […]

Sep

9

Billy Bragg: “Who owns the music, MTV or me?”

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MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | Who owns the music, MTV or me?
Billy Bragg writes:
In order to get on to MTV Flux, users have to grant MTV the right to transmit their material on the network “in perpetuity and gratis”. They also claim “the right to commercially exploit, host, store, copy, distribute, modify, edit, incorporate into other […]

Feb

24

HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray: customers to be screwed

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I should have known that there was more to the HD-DVD / Blu-ray debate than meets the eye. Increasingly, it’s becoming clear that the media industry is hell-bent on alienating its customers. Now I’m beginning to learn that the real idea behind these two new media is not to allow customers access to higher quality […]

Feb

17

RIAA claims copying CDs to iPods is unlawful

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Macworld UK - RIAA claims copying CDs to iPods is unlawful: “US record-label body the RIAA and movie-industry moguls at the MPAA are attempting to argue that copying a CD to a computer for carrying on an iPod does not, and has never, constituted fair use.”

Pillocks.

Jan

5

The Gadget Guru » Uncap Your iPod

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As suggested by The Gadget Guru » Uncap Your iPod, I’ve just downloaded GoPod. Further news once I get the chance to use it but my iPod irritation is similar to his.
One of my few irritations with my 4G iPod has to do with the volume when I connect it to the deck in my […]

Dec

20

Virgin Digital music quiz

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We had some fun today at work attempting Virgin Digital’s music quiz. I have not been able to find the original but I can assure my reader that it’s a challenge and pretty darned good. There are, I am told, 75 answers. We found 68 before discovering that we were too naïve to have heard […]

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