Music

Bowers & Wilkins MM-1 Unboxing

by Jeff Weisbein July 21, 2010
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I picked up a pair of Bowers & Wilkins MM-1 speakers for my birthday the other day.  While they are somewhat expensive retailing at $500, they are still on the lower end of the price scale for Bowers & Wilkins products.  If you remember I recently fell in love with Bowers & Wilkins P5 headphones [...]

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iPad App Review: Radio.com

by Rohan Reddy June 24, 2010
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Are a music lover who owns an iPad? If so, you must download the Radio.com iPad app, a free app, brought to you by CBS Interactive Music Group. Radio.com is a website that takes real radio stations from around the nation and compiles them into one sleek interface, on their website and in their iPhone [...]

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iTunes Music Store vs AmazonMP3

by Jeff Weisbein June 4, 2010
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A recent report by NPD Group concluded that the iTunes Music Store is responsible for 70% of the legal digital music downloads, while its major competitor, AmazonMP3 is responsible for 12%.  Other services such as Napster and Rhapsody account for remaining percentages each holding about 1% to 2% of the market.  When the Amazon MP3 [...]

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Review: Songbird Media Player

by Mike Mansell April 24, 2010
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As I’ve discussed before, I use Firefly Media Server to stream media from my home server to iTunes clients within my network.  However, I also have a certain amount of music stored on my local hard drive.  For a while now, I’ve been using foobar2000 to manage, index, and listen to music stored on my [...]

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Simplify Media Shuts Down

by Mike Mansell April 17, 2010
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Less than a month ago, I wrote a how-to and review on Firefly Media Server, an application that allows users to share their music libraries throughout their networks via the DAAP protocol, all without ever installing iTunes.  I had full intentions of following up on that how-to by introducing a similar service called Simplify Media.  [...]

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Universal Music Group to Sell CD’s for $10 or Less

by Jeff Weisbein March 18, 2010
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Universal Music Group (UMG) is making some much needed changes to their CD sales price point, but is it too little too late?  UMG announced today they will be dropping the price of physical CD’s to $10 or less.  The new price point will range from $6-$10 per album.  Additionally, UMG plans to add “deluxe [...]

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How To and Review of Firefly Media Server

by Mike Mansell March 17, 2010
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The Digital Audio Access Protocol, also known as DAAP, is the proprietary protocol that Apple developed and implemented into iTunes versions 4 and above.  This protocol is responsible for the library sharing aspects of iTunes, which allows users within the same local network to stream music from one-another’s computers.  Despite its being proprietary and closed-source, [...]

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Angels & Airwaves: Changing The Music Industry Through Social Media

by Jeff Weisbein November 18, 2009
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Angels & Airwaves, the band, led by front man Tom DeLonge (of blink-182 fame) is on the forefront of revolutionizing the music industry.  According to DeLonge, he wants to change the way music is made, marketed and delivered.  And he is definitely on the right track.  On the release of their second album (I-Empire) back [...]

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How To: Remove DRM From Your Music

by Jeff Weisbein July 24, 2009
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DRM, short for, Digital Rights Management can be quite a pain to deal with due to the restrictions it puts on the music or movies/videos you downloaded (and paid for) from online music services.  Granted, that while DRM is slowly dying, it’s still around in some places and causing trouble.  It’s also possible that even [...]

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I Told You MySpace Should Focus On Music

by Jeff Weisbein July 23, 2009
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According to recent Nielsen data for June 2009, traffic to MySpace Music has grown 190% since its launch in September 2008 and year-over-year traffic to the URL has increased a whopping 1,017%.  Additionally, MySpace Music the third largest music destination on the web (within that category of sites) only behind AOL Music and Yahoo! Music.  [...]

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