Recent items of note
April 17th, 2007 by musicinterfaces
- Daring Fireball: Some Facts About AAC - Well-argued defence of Apple’s AAC format against claims that it deliberately practices an anti-competitive iPod lock-in policy.
- MediaMaster: Access Your Music Library Online (TechCrunch) - "MediaMaster is a new web service that, like Faces and Oboe, let?s users upload music from their hard drive and listen to it online."
- TEAC’s bone conducting HP-F100 headphones (Engadget) - More bone conducting h’phones!
- Finetune Desktop streams music, taps into iTunes (Playlist) - "Finetune announces the launch of preview release of Finetune Desktop, an application that enables you to stream music from the online service to your Mac or PC."
- Apple: 100 million iPods sold, and counting (Playlist) - "Apple on Monday announced that the 100 millionth iPod has been sold. Apple claims that the iPod is the fastest-selling music player in history."
- A Music Device That Can Play, Oh, 2 Million Songs or So (New York Times) - "The player gives owners the ability to stream Yahoo Music?s catalog of more than two million songs without having to put the tunes onto a computer first."
- David Byrne Journal: 4.1.07: Your Government Working for You - Fairly lengthy dissection of the Copyright Royalty Board proposed increase in performance royalty rates from Mr Byrne.
- phling! (Cool Hunting) - "phling! is a new mobile service that lets you tune in to the music stored on your computer (PC only for the time being) from wherever you are."
- iPod ready Fireplace (Newlaunches) - "The new FRP-4300 Fireplace comes loaded with an iPod Station with 4"x9" Flat Speakers and a remote. The rectangular base and the arch are easy to assemble." NOT posted on April 1st!
- Music to feed advertisers (Guardian Unlimited) - "Each of Ricall.com’s four million tracks has a musical fingerprint listing attributes like tempo, instrument, demographics and mood."
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