Category: Digital Music
Remember when iPods just played music? Apple rumoured to be working on new iPod Touch and Nano
The relentless onwards march of technology looks set to continue apace as rumours have surfaced about the next iPods – an upgraded iPod Touch and Nano…
eMusic 2.0 as relaunched music site adds YouTube & Wikipedia
The mercifully DRM-free music download service eMusic has relaunched its website today and gone all web 2.0 on our arse with addition of both YouTube and Wikipedia content.
The updated album page will show you music videos, information…
Sky and Universal Music partner to launch subscription music streaming and download service
Sky has partnered with Universal Music to launch a subscription-based music service offering both streaming music and “keep forever” download tracks.
The venture has just been announced, and the service doesn’t appear to have a name yet — at least, not a public one. Claiming the model is a world first (a claim I’m sceptical about), Universal Music will give it a flying start by making its entire catalogue of music (including U2, Kanye West, Amy Winehouse, Mika, the Killers, Snow Patrol, Luciano Pavarotti, ABBA, Rihanna, Eminem, Andrea Bocelli, Elton John, and Duffy) available, while Sky continues to negotiate with both major and independent music companies…
Last.fm gets a makeover – and a few new features
Last.fm claims to be ‘new and improved’, which effectively amounts to a new look and one or two new features…
Make your own video: Radiohead – House of Cards
Sort of stunning really, isn’t it? No cameras were used in the production of this video for Radiohead’s “House of Cards”. What you’re looking at is data – ether my friends, it doesn’t even exist…
iTunes UK price cut cancelled – blame the credit crunch. Or the oil price. Or George Bush
Six months ago we got marginally excited. Marginally excited about possibly paying a bit less for our iTunes downloads in the UK, thanks to an EU complaint about UK buyers being charged more than our European “friends.”
Well. That’s not happening any more. Six months ago, 99cents were worth 74 Great British Pence, triggering the EU to ask Apple to cut its UK prices to make things all fair and equal in EuroWorld. But now, thanks to the plummeting pound/euro exchange…
90% of UK ringtone-selling web sites might be "misleading" and ripping off the kids
An investigation by the European commission has found that pretty much all of the awful ringtone-flogging web sites out there are misleading, confusing and mask the true cost of their tacky subscription schemes.
This is not news to us educated, technology-aware lot, but for small children not yet used to the cynical ways of the adult world…
Airports given the power to scan your media player for copyrighted material?
Good lord, imagine the queues this would cause.
Global world-controlling power-consortium G8 is, apparently, looking at plans to give airports the power to scan portable media players for copyrighted material when you fly, under its upcoming Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement…
7digital sales through the roof as more deals look to come in
DRM-free music download service 7digital is experiencing something of a boom with their profits up 300% so far in 2008 – the lucky buggers.
Since signing their last major record label in the shape of Warner Music, back in March, they’ve become the UK’s second biggest online music store…
Olympus LS-10 – slip a recording studio into your back pocket
Olympus claims you’ll be able to record your finest musical moments on the move with the LS-10 – but bootleggers will be cheering about the small size and ‘better than CD quality’ recording…
