Tag: Itunes
Paul McCartney's new album being sold DRM-free online… for $1.56
The music industry has been waging a battle against Russian music download site AllOfMP3 in recent months, over the way the latter sells digital downloads of brand new albums for less than a couple of dollars. However, it seems the floodgates could be opening for similar sites.
Top 10 albums worth buying as iTunes Plus DRM-free downloads
It’s iTunes Plus day here on Tech Digest, and I’ve been scooting through the iTunes Store to see what albums are available as higher-quality DRM-free downloads.
What devices can play iTunes Plus downloads?
So, Apple launched its iTunes Plus DRM-free downloads yesterday, and the company is already catching flak for embedding users’ names and email addresses in the files they download. The big idea is that you’ll be able to play the files on devices other than iPods. So what do they work on?
iTunes Plus under fire for sneaky user-ID feature
Apple launched its iTunes Plus DRM-free downloads yesterday, but the company is already being criticised for the way that whenever you buy one of the iTunes Plus songs, your name and email address is embedded in its tags.
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Apple's new iTunes update promises 'iTunes Plus' DRM-free music
Something’s up in iTunes-land. It’s 7.55am, and I’ve just switched on my Mac. The Software Update application is asking me to download iTunes 7.2, which will allow me to “preview and purchase iTunes Plus music – new higher-quality DRM-free music downloads from participating music labels”.
Why Coca-Cola competitions won't convince me to use iTunes for downloading music
Katherine Hannaford writes… Here’s a shocking fact for an early-twenty-something to come out with – I’ve never paid for downloading music. Whilst I do own an iPod (my second, begrudgingly) and even use iTunes to store my ample music collection, I’ve not once been tempted to pay for a song, no matter how inexpensive they are…
Coca-Cola and Apple iTunes giving away choons, iPods and concert tickets this Summer
Anti-capitalist? Better look away now, as two of your most-loathed corporations are teaming up together in the marriage of the decade. Well, until Microsoft buys Yahoo, anyway.
Coca-Cola, they of teeth-rotting prowess, are collaborating with iTunes to bulk up your iPod playlist and give away songs in over 2 billion promotional packs of Coca-Cola, Coke Zero and Diet Coke. Not got an iPod?…
Beatles on iTunes? It's not such a big deal
Stuart Dredge writes…
Right now, the Apple online gossip-hounds are distracted by trying to think up more rumours big enough to shave a few billion of the company’s share price. I’ve heard Steve Jobs is about to jump ship to Microsoft to kickstart Zune sales *taps nose*
Will the iPhone do for mobile music what iTunes did for online music?
Media analyst Screen Digest has completed some interesting research into the global market for over-the-air (OTA) mobile music downloads, as well as speculating on what impact the iPhone may have on this market.
