Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Amazon Launches Digital Music Store
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 copy-protection technology. Shoppers can buy and download individual songs or entire albums. The tracks can be copied to multiple computers, burned onto CDs and played on most types of PCs and portable devices, including the iPod and Microsoft Corp.’s Zune.
Songs cost 89 cents to 99 cents each and albums sell for $5.99 to $9.99.
Major music labels Universal Music Group and EMI Music have signed on to sell their tracks on Amazon, as have thousands of independent labels. The company said several labels are selling their artists’ music without copy protection for the first time on the Amazon store, including Alison Krauss on Rounder Records and Ani Difranco on Righteous Babe Records.
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
iTunes DRM-Free tracks have your name and email address encoded in them
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 in the new iTunes tracks:
Just FYI
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
iTunes Store will sell ENTIRE EMI CATALOG DRM-free!
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 EMI by saying that the DRM-free version will be a “premium” offering for audiophiles who want higher-quality music. I think that audiophiles are probably the people who have the least trouble keeping up with the latest tips for efficiently ripping the DRM off of their music
Not till May darn. It’s a step.
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Saturday, October 29th, 2005
MAKE: Blog: DIY ROXR - Sync iTunes to a TREO (and more)
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.
Wednesday, September 7th, 2005
iPod nano
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Friday, July 29th, 2005
Pout
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*
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Thursday, February 17th, 2005
Boing Boing: Dance record labels without DRM
Boing Boing: Dance record labels without DRM
oooh
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Thursday, February 10th, 2005
Mp3tunes.com - Sevilla
Mp3tunes.com - Sevilla It’s strange if you know me but I like flamenco. When I get some cash, I’ll buy this album.
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Monday, August 23rd, 2004
Boing Boing: You don’t own your iTunes, they 0wn you
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 the iTunes store.
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Thursday, April 8th, 2004
Time Wasters
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Saturday, April 3rd, 2004
It’s official
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.
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Friday, March 19th, 2004
New Music Source
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 MP3 player.
Still 99¢. The site can be a little slow though, and the 30 sound-bites aren’t always long enough to get a decent idea of the music but it’s worth playing around with.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2003
Why music is dying
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.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2003
Internet Radio
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 websites which allow free and legal downloads of their music.
Free, open, cross-platform and customizable. I’ll let you know how it wooks.
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