Recent items of note
March 20th, 2007 by musicinterfaces
- Rocker David Byrne Making Sense at SXSW Fest - New York Times - "David Byrne wants record labels to focus more on marketing than on manufacturing and distribution in the face of increasing digital album sales."
- Grammophon.ch - Must-see gallery of gorgeous near-antique record players, including toy and portable gramophones, internal horns (?) and phonographs. Click thumbnails to find recordings of each player with suitably crackly music!
- Peer-to-peer poisoners: A tour of MediaDefende (Ars Technica) - Interesting insight into the world of P2P media disruption, interview with VP of MediaDefender, premiere company in the field of media asset protection on behalf of music and movie business
- DockArt - Album art in your Mac OS X dock with DockArt
- 75% of customer service problems caused by DRM (Musicload) - "Deutsche Telekom’s Musicload, one of the largest online music stores in Europe, has come out strongly against DRM on account of its effects on the marketplace and its customers, according to German-language Heise Online."
- Shuffle Sweatband Uses Bone Conduction, Makes You Happy, Doesn’t Require Lobotomy - Gizmodo - The description says it all…
- VW Minibus Record Player - It would murder your vinyl (it’s even called Vinyl Killer), but this VW minibus shaped portable record player is a very different beast from the average turntable.
- iPod add-on supplies Zune-like social music sharing (YouTube) -
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