Posts under "Commentary"

iTunes Alternatives

Posted in Commentary on June 6th, 2010

From as early as the late '90s social commentators and those in the music industry were already saying that the future of the music industry lay in mp3s. It might surprise some of our younger musi…

Clear Digital Music and Hearing Aids

Posted in Commentary, Information about on October 22nd, 2009

Hearing Aids have been notorious for years with causing various issues at different frequencies for users. They are miracles for the many people that can not hear without them but they haven't bee…

Warner and Youtube get back together

Posted in Commentary on September 29th, 2009

After a long long time of users being disgruntled at the lack of streaming music from the Warner Brothers on youtube, an agreement has been reached with the label allowing the videos to be re-added to…

Wall Street batters Music.

Posted in Commentary on January 21st, 2009

Despite being a positive week for the great US of A overall, with new president Barak Obama entering office, Wall street is showing very little confidence in the economy, with many shares still losi…

Rhapsody not quite DRM free after all…

Posted in Commentary on July 20th, 2008

Rhapsody, a service touted as a DRM free digital download service, has not quite lived up to expectations, as it has been discovered that a significant amount of the available music is indeed not in t…

The future of music involves the past…

Posted in Commentary on July 9th, 2008

Digital music is not even the future anymore; digital music is now, people use mp3 players, their computers, mobile phones, all sorts to listen ot music, and it is just getting bigger and bigger, and …

Why Do FM Transmitters Suck?

Posted in Commentary on April 14th, 2008

Chances are, if you've got an MP3 player of some sort, you've considered what it would take for the music from the MP3 player to be played through your speakers. To solve that problem for myse…

Retail Causes Its Own CD Woes

Posted in Business, Commentary, Retail on September 3rd, 2007

The NPD Group, in conjunction with NARM, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, said that consumer rejection of the CD format and use of digital files, iPods, and P2P are not the reason …

MP3 Music Quality Suffers. And Your Point Is?

Posted in Business, Commentary, Society & Public Policy on August 29th, 2007

In Producers howl over sound cut out by MP3 compression, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer writes about anguished record producers. MP3 files lose 90% of data stores in the Recording studio.

The mass co…

Music’s Swan Dive: Self-Inflicted Wounds

Posted in Business, Commentary, Industry on August 14th, 2007

Rolling Stone published an in-depth feature on The Record Industry's Decline. Now that a new generation of executives is driving the record companies, they can admit what everyone else has known f…