Filed in archive DRM
by Jordan Grodecki on September 30, 2008
DRMed music is never a good thing for us here at DMF, and here is a great example of why. Wal-Mart, up until recently, ran a DRM based music download service, before eventually switching to a drm-free...
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Muxtape was a site you may not have heard of, it wasn't exactly incrediably well known, despite having a quite large userbase. The site allowed you to upload mp3s into a mixtape of songs which...
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MySpace music quietly relaunched as a real listening service over the past few days, and has recieved a generally good responce from the online community. It's definitely worth a go, millions of...
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After posting about the initial announcement of SanDisks MicroSD based music distribution idea. We have learnt that the initial run will be of 30 albums from popular artists such as Usher and Rhianna,...
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SanDisk might not be the first person you think of when you talk digital music, but they would certainly like to be. This morning they announced they had completed licencing deals with all of the...
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Metalica, the once notorious digital music haters, recently released their latest album, Death Magnetic, with a new attitude to the subject. They decided they needed to embrace the digital world...
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Filed in archive Retail
by Jordan Grodecki on September 16, 2008
For a long time now, Napster has been looking for a buyer without a great deal of success, but today that has changed, with the company signing a deal with a suprising new owner. Best Buy. Yes,...
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Filed in archive Music
by Jordan Grodecki on September 14, 2008
British band Marillion have gone one step further than all of the other music "pioneers" like Radiohead; they have released their entire album, free, onto the bittorrent p2p network. The...
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Remember SHOUTcast? the pioneering streaming radio tech from Nullsoft, employed by AOL for what is still a massive community; over 50,000 listeners reguarly tune in to user made stations. So it's...
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Filed in archive Fun
by Jordan Grodecki on September 04, 2008
Although not strictly to do with digital music, it is to do with the digital world, and music, so I figured this might be relevant to some people. Amazon and IMdb are hardly small names in the online...
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