Tag: music
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DVD Jon Fairplays Apple
DVD Jon has […] reverse-engineered Apple’s Fairplay and is starting to license it to companies who want their media to play on Apple’s devices.
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Songbird 0.2 Screencast
I’ve mentioned Songbird before. They’ve recently released a public test version (
Test Flight
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YouTube ja Warner Music Group sopimukseen musiikkivideoista
Muun muassa Madonnan ja Red Hot Chili Peppersin musiikkivideoita nähdään jatkossa laillisesti verkon YouTube-palvelussa. Palvelu sopi asiasta Warner Music Groupin kanssa. […] Rahaa taotaan liittämällä mainoksia videoiden oheen.
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Zune’s Big Innovation: Viral DRM
“While Zune users will be able share music with friends, there’s a catch […]. [The recipients] of shared songs will only be able to listen to them three times or for three days, whichever comes first. […]
Zune accomplishes this amazingly stupid feat by wrapping shared music in a proprietary layer of DRM, regardless of what format the original content may be in. […] What Microsoft has created is a new form of viral DRM. Zune will intentionally infect your music with the DRM virus before passing it along to one of your friends. After three listens the poor song dies a horrible DRM enabled death. Talk about innovation.”
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StreamRipper: record mp3 radio stations
Streamripper allows you to download an entire station of music. Many of these mp3 radio stations only play certain genres, so you can now download an entire collection of goa/trance music, an entire collection of jazz, punk rock, whatever you want.
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Free WMA to WAV: dbpowerAmp
I normally use BeSweet to convert between audio formats, but it doesn’t do WMA, so I had to find something that can handle it. For some reason almost all of the converters claiming to do this were either shareware or adware-ridden, but dbpowerAmp (via Andrew W) looks like the tool for me. It requires the WMA codec be installed separately and it nagged about the MP3 trial not being activated at least the first time I used it, but apart from that it does the job.
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Quickest Patch Ever
If you really want to see Microsoft scramble to patch a hole in its software, don’t look to vulnerabilities that impact countless Internet Explorer users or give intruders control of thousands of Windows machines. Just crack Redmond’s DRM.
Wired via Juha
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WavPack: Lossless Audio Compression
“WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode. […] The compression ratio depends on the source material, but generally is between 30% and 70%.”
They say it compresses better than FLAC at the highest levels.
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Universalin jättiyllätys: ilmaista musiikkia netistä
Yksi maailman neljästä musiikkijätistä, Universal Music, on tehnyt sopimuksen uuden Spiralfrog-nettipalvelun kanssa, joka tuo internetiin ilmaiset lailliset musiikkilataukset. Joulukuussa avattava musiikkipalvelu on täysin mainosrahoitteinen ja musiikki on ilmaista. [Mainoksien katselun] jälkeen kappaleen saa
omaksi
, eli sen voi tallentaa kiintolevylle ja musiikkisoittimille.Tietokone
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