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more about #digitalmusic Mrs. Stephen Fry: This is the kind of article where I prefer to read the featured discussions only. Thank god for that button. There are some enormous boneheads out th... more » Mike Fulton: It sounds to me like Sir Paul understands the internet just fine. Anybody who understands the internet knows quite well that anything that gets relea... more » AlisaDonkey: Gizmodo doesn't understand mastering. The masters he's talking about wouldn't be FLAC or some other lossless format meant for pure reproduction. Think... more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: Wait, you mean he's scared that the music he produced, wrote, recorded, and was paid for repeatedly from over 30 years ago might be pirated... When i... more » Gary_7vn: I understand the internets. "It's a series of boobs.". more » krispykrink: "Just to be clear, Paul McCartney says he wants to sell music online, but he's worried that someone could conceivably download it, upload it back to t... more » iSee: we[I read The Beatles] would have the right to say, 'Now you[the record company execs] recompense us for that.' And they're scared of that." It seems... more » OCEntertainment: Mr. McCartney, I would like to inform you of some internet trends of which you may previously be unaware. It has come to light in recent statements th... more » Mayor McRib: You say you got a real solution. We'd all love to see the plan. You ask me for a contribution. We're doing what we can. But when you want money for pe... more » evilR3: This is scary, I guess all the money he has still isnt enough. Wheres Bono when you need him? more » njdevil: I am the Walrus, they are the Pirates. more » Gann: Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world... You may ... more » OMG! Ponies!: I understand why Sir Paul is worried about someone wapping his music onto the internet. He feels that he is somehow being gypped. Not to worry. I'm... more » franco1975: He has been preoccupied with the Heather Mills fiasco to realise whats been happening. more » BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: Sorry Paul, who do I make the check out to? Oh CASH? You sly devil more » HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: Dear Foley, he's serious, isn't he? News Flash, sir Paul: People are pirating your music right now. Holding out from legitimate means of distributi... more » fakejezuzdiaz: I simply can't wap my head around it! more » ManekiNeko: "Wap it on to the internet?" I know people who wap off to the internet, but... more » ID Ron Burgundy: This looks like a great idea. I've been playing a little Audiosurf lately, and as many have already stated, this looks to be in the same vein. Aweso... more » TechTease: It's like a fantastically awesome Audiosurf+Geometry Wars mash-up. #musiclibrarygame more » -
#music
Paul McCartney Doesn't Understand the Internet
What's Paul McCartney's doomsday scenario? Someone, somewhere, somehow manages to leak the Beatles' music onto the internet, where it will be stolen by everyone, all the time. This must be prevented! Notice a problem there? Yeah, it gets worse. More » -
#gaming
Use Your Own Digital Music Library to Generate Enemies for Symphony
Symphony, screenshot above, is a game that uses your own music library to generate enemies on the fly. Think of it like a shmup where the soundtrack (presumably) doesn't suck ass. More » -
#digitalmusic
The Beatles' Catalog, Now on Limited Edition USB Stick
It's not iTunes, but Apple Corps and EMI are finally offering a legit way to grab digital Beatles tracks. This Apple-shaped stick has FLAC and MP3 versions of the new CD set: all the band's music re-mastered in stereo. More » -
#bestbuy
The Geek Squad's Newest Racket: CD Ripping
Building on a proud tradition of charging for things that shouldn't cost anything, Best Buy's crack team of dudes who can fill out inane bubble tests will now rip your CDs, for the low low price of $1 a disc. More » -
#hp
HP and Dr. Dre Attempting To Fix Digital Music With Line Of Laptops, Software and Headsets
Dr. Dre, Interscope Chairman Jimmy Lovine and HP have teamed up in an effort to reconstruct the entire "digital music ecosystem" starting with a new line of laptops, software and headsets under the Beats by Dr. Dre brand. More » -
#digitalmusic
Greg Kot: The Music Industry Caused Piracy, and iTunes Isn't the Way Out
Greg Kot, music critic for the Chicago Tribune and others, wrote a book called Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music. In a recent podcast interview, he enumerates the precise downfall of record labels and why iTunes isn't their savior. More » -
#digitalmusic
Suspiciously Prescient Man Files Patent for iPod-Like Device in 1979
Kane Kramer, an inventor by trade, came up with a gadget and music distribution service almost eerily similar to the iPod-iTunes relationship that predates it by three decades. The guy predicted details down to DRM and flash memory's dominance. More » -
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#napster
Napster's New Pitch: Five DRM-Free Songs, Unlimited Streaming, $5 A Month
When Best Buy gobbled up Napster, Adam wondered what they could possibly do to make their expensive new liability relevant again. The answer? Go cheap. Very cheap.
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#listeningtest
How We Listen: A Timeline of Audio Formats
Humans have been writing music for at least as long as we've been recording history. It was storing it that took a little more time. Here are all the ways we've done it to date: More » -
#usb
Cassette To Digital USB Gadget Preserves Milli Vanilli For Eternity
If, for some strange reason, you still have tons of cassettes lying around, this USB gadget from Japanese company Novac will help you convert them to MP3, WMA or WAV files. More » -
#questionoftheday
How Much Money Have You Spent On Digital Music?
The "mysterious" popularity decrease in $1.29 iTunes songs illustrates that there is a financial threshold when it comes to music. But I'll bet plenty of you have dropped serious cash on your collection over time. More » -
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Variable Song Pricing Hits Amazon's and Walmart's Digital Music Stores
Now that Apple is slowly and quietly switching all its freshly DRM-free tracks to a popularity-based variable pricing scheme, we almost didn't notice that Walmart and Amazon have taken the same step. More » -
#itunes
iTunes Tiered Pricing Goes Live, We Get Gently Screwed
When we called the new iTunes tiered price scheme "Popular Songs Cost More Money" pricing, we had no idea how accurate that was: It's here, but I've yet to find a single $0.69 track. UPDATED. More » -
#cellphones
Verizon's Mobile Store Includes Tiered-Price MP3s, Lacks Obvious Reason To Exist
In becoming the first carrier to introduce MP3s to their mobile store, Verizon has highlighted an essential truth about crappy WAP stores: without DRM, nobody has any reason to use them. More » -
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The Secret of Auto-Tune: Kanye and T-Pain Are Not Good Singers
Auto-tuning, the practice of digitally "repairing" off-key vocal tracks, is more visibly prominent than ever. But it's even more ubiquitous than people realize, and some musicians and fans aren't happy about it.
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AMK is Lego-Like Digital Instrument For Your Kids, Ear-Ache For You
The AMK (that's Alle Meine Klänge) looks something like the bastard offspring of Lego and a Guitar-Hero controller, with a few extra digital sprinklings thrown in. The idea is that its different modules can be plugged together in many ways to produce music: some have sound effects, others record incoming sounds and replay them and another unit is the amp/loudspeaker. Then the whole thing is played with simple twist controls and buttons. Confused? Watch the video of the concept toy in action at designers PKNTS Studio's website, and you'll have perfect comprehension: if this toy is made real and your kids get one, you'll never get a lie-in again. [PKNTS via Yanko Design] -
#questionoftheday
Question of the Day: How Big is Your Digital Music Collection?
I get tired of music quick, and I'm not much of an archiver, so I don't need a lot of hard drive space or a high capacity MP3 player to store my music. However, there are plenty of folks out there that have taken to collecting digital music with the same voracity as people once did with CDs and vinyl. Fortunately, these days a music collection doesn't require you to add on to your home. So, the question is: how big is your digital music collection? More »
