How to Rip Music From MySpace
A quick step guide that will show you how to rip audio from MySpace and any other site that allows you to stream music on your PC.
(Don’t want to hassle? SuperMedia has a product available for $47 that works.)
There are many audio files available for playback on the venerable MySpace site yet, very few are [...]
Rock stars want to seal Wolfgang’s Vault
Some of rock ‘n’ roll’s biggest players, including Led Zeppelin, the Grateful Dead and Carlos Santana, are suing a website that offers thousands of recordings of rare audio and video music performances.
The artists say Wolfgang’s Vault, owned by William Sagan, is illegally offering the recordings in order to lure consumers to buy other products available [...]
CBS Records Redux: Venerable Music Label Returns Digitally
But corporate parent CBS Corporation announced Friday that it will resurrect the CBS Records brand name. The original CBS Records was sold to Sony in 1988, and its assets are now part of Sony Music Entertainment. The difference this round is the focus. Instead of the eponymous vinyl product, or [...]
Belkin TuneStage II for iPod
Belkin came out with the first version of the TuneStage which allowed users to utilize their iPods as a wireless remote control and jukebox for home stereo systems. It supposedly would allow you more control over your system and give your music a chance to be heard somewhere besides via your headphones.
Now, [...]
Songbird, the Firefox-like Media Player
Songbird is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. Like Winamp, it supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox, it is built from Mozilla, cross-platform and open source.
Firefox is known for its open-source software that allows programmers to toy with features and help with bug fixes. Now, there is a [...]
DRM In Question
DRM is certainly being thought about in several different areas of the music industry and sales. Businesses are rethinking their approach to securing music from the hands of pirates. Just recently, Reuters reported that the current theory is that if the music industry wants to work to loosen the grip Apple has on [...]
BitTorrent Gets Artsy
We all know that BitTorrent and other P2P software have transformed mainstream media distribution but, something that has hitherto gone unnoticed is how it has changed the way that independent art is distributed as well.
In an article by Michael Pick, Peer-To-Peer Art: How P2P Networks Are Transforming The Creative Landscape, he points out how [...]
Free, new video content on BitTorrent
BitTorrent recently launched a new site redesign. But beyond just redesigning their site, it looks like they are starting to feature new, fresh and free video content for download. Last week they were featuring an exclusive video from Death Cab For Cutie.
Today they have video for download of Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy [...]
DCFC, Sub Pop Down With Bittorrent
Seattle indie titans Death Cab For Cutie and their hometown brethren, the revered Sub Pop Records, have both posted exclusive material via controversial P2P service Bittorrent. Death Cab posted an exclusive EPK featuring videos, interviews and assorted behind-the-scenes footage.
Similarly, Sub Pop has set up a profile offering high-quality music videos and mp3s from the [...]
New games turn up music, user control
In the spring, music executives at the E3 video game convention predicted music would take on a greater future role as the game market grows more sophisticated. This fall, that prediction seems poised to become reality.
As the pre-holiday game release schedule swings into high gear, titles expected to hit retail shelves in coming months will [...]
