Free Custom iPhone Ringtones using only iTunes | The Apple Blog
Create free ringtones for your iPhone using only iTunes and songs you already have on your computer
I don’t know if it works on a pc, this one does Howto: Make custom ringtones for iPhone 2.0 (3G)
Amazon Launches Digital Music Store – New York Times
Amazon.com Inc. launched its much-anticipated digital music store Tuesday, a move analysts say represents the first hint of real competition for Apple Inc.’s market-leading iTunes.
Amazon MP3, as the new section of the Web retailer’s site is called, currently stocks nearly 2.3 million songs, all without [...]
Boing Boing: EFF finds HUGE block of hidden info in new iTunes tracks
Apple’s new DRM-free tracks from the iTunes store not only contain your email address and password name in hidden fields, but in at least one case, more than 360k of hidden information. EFF’s technologists have found a hidden block of data [...]
Boing Boing: iTunes Store will sell ENTIRE EMI CATALOG DRM-free!!11!1ONE!
Apple and EMI just announced that they will be selling DRM-free Apple songs through the iTunes Music Store. The songs will cost 130 percent of the price of the existing crippled songs, and you’ll get to choose. Weirdly, Apple seems to have sold this move to [...]
MAKE: Blog: DIY ROXR – Sync iTunes to a TREO (and more)
This free software allows PalmOne Treo 650 & 600 smartphones, Sony-Ericsson’s Walkman phones, Nokia’s XpressMusic and Samsung MP3 phones (with hard keys to control playback) to be synchronized with iTunes.
Amazing idea, until I remember that my battery life is shit.
I waaaaant!
iFM
Radio, Remote, and Recorder for iPod
I’ve been looking for this since I got my iPod and it looks like it will only work with the new ones. *insert hissy fit*
Boing Boing: Dance record labels without DRM
oooh
Mp3tunes.com – Sevilla It’s strange if you know me but I like flamenco. When I get some cash, I’ll buy this album.
Boing Boing: You don’t own your iTunes, they 0wn you
Good blog post on why Apple iTunes DRM — and other DRM systems — that convey the message “you don’t own the music you buy, you merely license it,” make for such unsatisfying experiences.
This is why, as reasonable as the terms seem, I’m not buying from [...]
Wired News: Maybe the Music’s Just Lousy?
…file sharing has little impact on CD sales.
I like the article title because it is so true.
Indie-only AudioLunchbox.com serves music with no DRM
The service is compatible with Mac, Windows and Linux clients, and doesn’t encrypt files with any form of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology — you’re free to do with your downloads what you wish: burn them to CD if you like, listen to them on your iPod or another [...]
Yes, I’m alive, just busy with work and school. I take my comps next Friday (eeek!!!).
Anyway,Inspirational Technology- DRM sucks, plus the comments puts it pretty well.
The record companies can be proud that they’ve so thoroughly screwed things up now that there really isn’t even any point in paying for music now.
I’ve wanted a way to hear independent artists for a while and here it is.
iRATE radio is a collaborative filtering client/server mp3 player/downloader. The iRATE server has a large database of music. You rate the tracks and it uses your ratings and other people’s to guess what you’ll like. The tracks are downloaded from [...]
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