Tag: MP3S

A study performed by the MCPS-PRS Alliance, a non-profit royalty collection service, has found that only 15 percent of the albums hosted online last year sold as much as a single copy. This report flies in the face of author Chris Anderson's popular "long tail" theory, which states that Internet music sales depend more upon niche artists than MTV-style chart-toppers. The MSPS-PRS study found ...

Walmart began selling DRM-free tracks in its music store in August of last year. 13 months later, the mega-corp has decided to follow the footsteps of so many others and hit the kill switch on its DRM management servers. As noted in an e-mail to customers, Wally World will be making the final transition into a fully DRM-free MP3 store on October 9th, and in order to keep those DRM-laden files ...

If you were born anytime before 1980, chances are you've at least a few records in your lifetime. But unless you're some young hipster enjoying the retro-lust for vinyl, you probably don't listen to those LPs much anymore, which is why you need to get them onto your iPod as quickly as possible. Time was that digitizing your vinyl took some complicated computer configuration, but over ...

Wal-Mart is the latest store to jump into the DRM-free music sales game, offering the same digital-rights-management-free tracks from EMI and Universal that are sold through the iTunes Plus, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, and other online music stores. (DRM is a system of adding a small amount of data to an audio file, which puts draconian limitations on copying, burning, and playback of the material ...

Love the idea of the iPod but don't have one of those newfangled computers around? The new iLoad from Wingspan Partners might just be your ticket to getting your tunes onto the hottest MP3 player in town. In theory, the device lets you rip music straight from a CD to your iPod, complete with album information, all at the touch of a button. In its review, however, iLounge found that the $300 ...

Here's a surprising statistic: According to NPR, sales of new vinyl records are up 10% in the first quarter of 2007. Record stores that sell used vinyl are reporting a spike in sales as well. Which begs the question: What's up with the resurgence? One theory is the advent of USB turntables, which plug right into your computer's USB port and make it easy to turn your vinyl records into MP3s or ...