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.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.

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

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.

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’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*

oooh

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.