Tag: Digital Music
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Home taping is killing music! Oh, hang on, no. Home taping got killed by CD burners. So CD burning must be killing music. No, hang on, it’s all MP3s round here nowadays, they killed off CD-Rs. MP3s are killing mus… etc etc. Actually, we think James Blunt is killing music. We’re sure on that one.
Happy birthday to the CD: 25 years old today
Exactly 25 years ago today — August 17th, 1982 — Philips manufactured the first compact disc, at their factory near Hanover, Germany.
Co-developed by Philips and Sony, over 200 billion CDs have been sold in that time.
The first CD to be manufactured at the plant was “The Visitors” by ABBA, though the initial catalogue of CDs launched in November 1982 were mainly classical music recordings.
Unsurprisingly, Japan were first to see CD players and discs, with European and US consumers getting hold of the technology in March 1983.
Limewire to launch legal music downloads store
Talk about poacher turned gamekeeper. Limewire is launching a legit music downloads store, having spent the last few years locking horns with the music industry over its Peer-to-peer file-sharing application.
Opinion: Nokia's iTunes rival has to be more than a me-too music service
Stuart Dredge writes…
So, it seems Nokia is about to take the wrappers off its ‘proper’ music download service, according to the well-sourced article in Fortune Magazine that we wrote about earlier. It’s not even a secret that Nokia’s been planning to launch a rival to iTunes: last August, Nokia bought mobile music firm Loudeye, and said at the time that one reason was its intention to launch “a comprehensive music experience to Nokia device owners during 2007”.
Utada Hikaru: the planet's biggest digital music star
Prince? Schmince! Giving your album away with newspapers ain’t all that. And the same goes for Lily Allen and the Arctic Monkeys, with their fancy MySpace-fuelled fame. As for Crazy Frog, well, words fail me. Even words that go DINGDINGWREEEOOOOAR…
Interview – Sony Ericsson: "Digital audio players won't exist in two years"
Okay, so a big mobile manufacturer saying that MP3 players will soon be toast isn't entirely surprising – they're keen to push their handsets' music capabilities after all. But Victor Fredell, Sony Ericsson's content acquisition manager for music, is still…
Steve Jobs tops Blender's chart of online music influencers
US music magazine Blender has crowned Steve Jobs the most influential people involved ‘behind the scenes’ in web music.
They view Jobs as a technology trendsetter, thanks to the iPod and iTunes
“The iTunes Store and the iPod have done more to change the way people listen to music than anything since the CD, and maybe since the sound recording,” said Craig Marks, Blender’s editor-in-chief.
2007 Tech Trends No. 9: DRM-free music
Talk to many companies in the music industry, and they’ll tell you DRM is woefully misunderstood. It’s not about stopping naughty file-sharing, they’ll say, it’s about enabling music fans to do Cool Stuff. Except that so far, that’s not true.
Shiny Video Interview: Kat chats to Head of Entertainment at T-Mobile about their Music Jukebox service
As Stuart reported on Tuesday, T-Mobile has launched a new service, Music Jukebox, which allows users to download music tracks straight to their mobile phones or PCs. I took some time on Tuesday to chat to Damian Byrne, the Head of Entertainment at T-Mobile…
AllofMP3.com is dead… Or is it?
If the music industry thought it had killed off Russian website AllofMP3.com, it can think again. Despite reports yesterday that the site has shut down for good, the people behind it appear to have simply set up under a different name, MP3Sparks.com.
