Tag: AAC

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/iTunes_top_tracks_1_29_Amazon_0_99_thanks_record_labels'; As promised, variable pricing has now been implemented at the iTunes music store. Already, we're seeing most of top 10 singles and 33 of the top 100 hitting the top price-point of $1.29 (encoded as DRM-free 256kbps AAC). Interesting as Amazon's uncomfortably similar top 10 list has all these ...

If your iPod is full, Apple would happily take your money for a newly announced 160 gigabyte iPod Classic, which is big enough to accommodate a ridiculous 40,000 songs. But at a price point of $349, it's not exactly an impulse buy. Enter ShrinkMyTunes, a $40 software program that re-encodes your iTunes collection to cut file sizes in half and, as a result, double the capacity on your iPod. ...

Junior's iPod is helping him do more a lot than go deaf at an early age -- it's also helping him cheat his way to better grades. According to the Associated Press, schools all over the world are banning iPods and other digital media players from the classroom because they are increasingly being used to cheat. The latest iPod ban came out of Mountain View High School in Meridian, Ohio, which found ...

With Sanjaya Malakar no longer the force he once was, it seems the tender eardrums of America's youth are once again safe from unnecessary harm. But sadly, that's not the case, reports NPR. Today's 'Morning Edition' broadcast spotlighted Dr. Sharon Kujawa of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and her crusade across Boston's school system to inform young people about the dangers of listening ...