Tag: MP3

With music becoming increasingly accessible, it's now possible to accompany every moment of life with a personalized soundtrack. Not only have iPods and MP3 players pervaded everyday existence, but they've also, not surprisingly, become just as crucial to those most extreme, intense moments -- moments most of us never experience, but which, for soldiers in combat, are the norm. Such is the ...

We live in an age when the fidelity of our music is seemingly less important than our ability to easily access, transport, and share it. As vinyl records were eventually replaced almost entirely by CDs as the predominant music format, MP3s and other files have now become the standard. They are digitally compressed (to varying degrees), making them sound significantly 'thinner' (read: lower ...

Although digital music sales continue to rise, CDs still account for the market majority in the U.S. When it comes to the burgeoning online world, though, iTunes stands alone. Macworld writes that a recent report released by NPD Musicwatch showed that 25-percent of the songs purchased in the United States during the first months of 2009 came from the iTunes store. That makes iTunes the most ...

The Internet made pirating music as simple as clicking a few buttons in a program, much to the dismay of record companies around the world. Those same companies tried to control the music through the use of Digital Rights Management (DRM), but failed miserably. Only now are the record companies realizing that a large majority of people only pirate music because it's simply the easiest and most ...

It's usually not a good idea to buy things from folks on the street, unless you're into knockoff watches and stolen radios. If, though, for some reason you feel inclined to hand over a wad of cash to some stranger holding a large unmarked bag, at least make sure you verify its contents first. In Braunschweig, Germany, a group of Germans who thought they were purchasing a small suitcase full of ...

Jammie Thomas-Rasset didn't know how good she had it. Back in 2007, the Minnesota mother made national headlines as the first person sued by the RIAA for copyright infringement to actually take the case to trial (instead of settling out of court), after she was charged with downloading copyrighted songs through the P2P network, Kazaa. At the trial's conclusion, Thomas-Rasset was found guilty of ...

Wake up, Microsoft! Research firm Piper Jaffray's most recent Teen Survey has concluded that, when it comes to MP3 players, American teenagers only want Apple. The firm's most recent polling of 600 high school students reveals that every teen in the survey who didn't already own a media player wanted an iPod. Of the teens who do have MP3 players, 86-percent have iPods. None expressed any ...

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 ...

We can already envision the flame fest on this one, so we'll just cut to the chase. Jonathan Berger, professor of music at Stanford, has been conducting some pretty interesting tests on incoming students, and he's been recording results that'll surely make audiophiles cringe. He has been asking his students to listen to tracks in MP3 format as well as in formats of much higher quality, all while ...

The Beatles' music may not be available on iTunes, but two bloggers are making the Liverpool icons' entire catalog downloadable for free online. What's the catch? It will all be played on a ukulele. Roger Greenawalt and David Barratt plan to record and perform on ukulele, the diminutive, four-stringed Hawaiian instrument, all 185 of the Beatles' original compositions, with each song featuring a ...

If anyone out there is looking for the perfect way to blow $2 million, may we humbly suggest purchasing the DiMora V16 Natalia SLS 2. One might wonder why this luxury land-yacht costs more than a house, and the answer is simple: It comes with an MP3-enabled horn as a standard feature. We are sure that the car boasts an array of other tricks and treats, but the customizable horn is what sold ...

While used and refurb'd electronics have a long history of delivering more than the purchaser bargained for, like assembly-line photos, MI6 documents, or the phone number to Sarah Palin's hair stylist, New Zealand man Chris Ogle's surprise find is a little more troubling. He picked up the above unidentified MP3 player at a thrift shop in Oklahoma for $18 used. On it were 60 files, many of which ...

If you're tired of boring MP3 players that look like ... well ... MP3 players, check out this custom model made by a man who goes by the moniker openfly. It's a 1GB Sansa Clip stuffed into the casing of a mock grenade that, if not for the three protruding buttons, switch, and headphone cable, would be more or less indistinguishable from the real thing. openfly cut open the casing, stuffed the ...

Some Metallica fans are complaining that the band's ninth studio record, 'Death Magnetic,' is -- to borrow from Huey Lewis's 'Back to the Future' character -- just too darn loud, the Wall Street Journal reports. Since some folks might figure that the pioneering metal band's recordings are supposed to be loud, this grievance warrants clarification. Metallica fans would never lament riffs' being ...

Part of what has made MySpace so popular is the ability for bands to create their own pages and post a song or three online, enabling fans to then grab and share those songs on their own pages, showing their allegiance and letting friends rock out when they came by to visit. That functionality got a major boost yesterday when MySpace Music added the entire discography of artists from Sony BMG, ...