Regular readers already know that I recently switched from using XMPlay to AIMP2 which provides the better total package. One of the interesting functions of AIMP2 is to record Internet radio (yes XMPlay can do that as well). It took a while to find out how this function could be enabled in the player and [...]

Categories: Knowledge, Music and Video

If you look around and ask your friends which media player they prefer you will most likely come up with many different answers. Winamp, Windows Media Player and iTunes will surely be on the top of the list with lesser known players mentioned by some of the friends. Most are perfectly happy that they can [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Software

Who would have projected this? Walmart decided to keep the DRM servers running for now after announcing that they would be shutting down the DRM servers of their mp3 online store which would essentially mean that customers would not be able to transfer the music to another computer or device anymore. It was actually very [...]

Categories: Music and Video

If anyone is not already convinced that DRM is bad for the customer after seeing major companies like Google, Yahoo or MSN pull the plug on their DRM servers then Walmart’s decision to do the same might convince you finally. Walmart started selling music back in August 2007. The music was protected by DRM for [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

Joshua writes about cool interesting stuff over on his own blog Extendably. Feel free to check it out, I’m sure you’ll like it.   No matter what your opinion is on MySpace, the announcement of the MySpace Music store and service is big news. Perhaps the real question should be, “Why so long?” After all [...]

Categories: Online Services

If you like music from the 80′s you might feel like you are in paradise on your first visit to the 80′s music videos website. This website offers more than 1000 music videos from the 80′s that are presented in a huge list on the main page. The music videos are sorted alphabetically by artist [...]

Categories: Music and Video

Whenever I want to discover some new music these days I got to 1 of 3 places; Amazon, Wikipedia and Last.FM, in that order. Amazon has got perhaps the most useful database of user reviews on the web. Eg, most of them are actually half-coherent. Amazon also shows associated artists which are useful because once [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Music Industry, Online Services

A somewhat rarer format for music is providing an album as one mp3 file that is accompanied by a cue. The cue file contains the information about the track list, song names and artists. Several applications like Exact Audio Copy have options to rip audio CDs that way. This does pose a few problems however. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

It can be hard at times to follow musicians if you are a fan of them: Where are they right now, when is their next live concert, when does their next CD come out, will they come to my town? Most people get their music business news from music magazines, band websites and music portals [...]

Categories: Entertainment, Music Industry, Online Services