Rip Your CDs to the Max
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An open-source application for Mac OS X encodes music using just about any audio file format imaginable. In Monkey Bites.
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The recording industry debuts a new carrot-and-stick approach for dealing with file-ripping students and the colleges and ISPs who know them. By Eliot Van Buskirk.
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aTunes is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform player and manager, with audio cd rip frontend. Currently supported formats are mp3, ogg, wav, wma, flac, mp4, and radio streaming.  Changelog:  - Added year and genre fields to CD ripper (Thomas Beckers) - Added saving of currently selected AudioScrobbler panel (Thomas Beckers) - Added brighter tray icons for Windows Vista (Thomas Beckers) - Added icons in About menu (Thomas Beckers) - Added an entry for enabling/disabling Audioscrobbler panel (Thomas Beckers) - FIX: Persistent split pane divider location (Thomas Beckers) - FIX: Null pointer when deleting a radio station (Thomas Beckers) - FIX: Icons doesn't change from "play" to "pause" [Bug 1818060] (Thomas Beckers) - FIX: "Clear Tag" option freezes UI - Updated Substance Look And Feel version to 4.0 - Repository refresh improved: now checks modification date - FIX: duplicate entries on stats - FIX: Null pointer on Amazon album search - FIX: aTunes freezes at startup when no repository found - Added button for search filter in playlist bar and moved playlist bar to the bottom (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added saving of last used settings in CD ripper (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added filename and pathname checking for export tool (Sylain Gaudard) - Added CTRL-F keybinding to search filter in playlist panel and allowed switching it off by pressing a second time the search filter button (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added Terracotta and Sunset themes avaible in Substance 4.0 (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added new icon for search field reset (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added tooltips to playlist search filter (Sylvain Gaudard) - Reduced font size of file properties panel to allow longer filenames (Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: Adapted preferences dialog for greek translation in order to display the complete text (Sylvain Gaudard, Pavlos Paraskeuopoulos) - FIX: Null pointer when file properties panel gets enabled if no song in playlist [Bug 1810167] (Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: Race condition in mplayer handler (Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: aTunes launches several mplayer instances [Bug 1818064] (Thomas Beckers, Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: Updated cdda2wav.exe to version 2.01.01a35 to fix compatibility with Windows Vista (Thomas Beckers, Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: Race condition on AudioScrobbler service - Added device features: auto-mount devices, copy from and to repository - FIX: Set default max memory to 128MB (previously was 64MB) - AudioScrobbler Album information visual changes - AudioScrobbler Artist information visual changes - AudioScrobbler Similar artist information visual changes - Added Artist Bio at AudioScrobbler panel - FIX: aTunes would not play the next file with non-english version of mplayer (Bertrand Florat)
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Check out the most ridiculous way to lose a bundle.
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Skip those large music companies that don't care about your music. Doing it yourself is easier and more affordable than ever.
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The British Department for Education and Skills (DfES) recently launched a "Music Manifesto" campaign, with the ostensible intention of educating the next generation of British musicians. Unfortunately, they also teamed up with the music industry (EMI, and various artists) to make this popular. EMI has apparently negotiated their end well, so that children in our schools will now be indoctrinated about the illegality of downloading music.The ignorance and audacity of this got to me a little, so I wrote an open letter to the DfES about it. Unfortunately, it's pedantic, as I suppose you have to be when writing to goverment representatives. But I hope you find it useful, and perhaps feel inspired to do something similar, if or when the same thing has happened in your area.
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Amazon: "Many of our customers have already discovered that one cheap way to get DRM-free MP3s is to buy them on CD and rip them themselves." Here's a screen shot. It's common-sense advice, but still somewhat remarkable that they're addressing the issue of DRM right there on the home page. It could be that I'm seeing it and you're not (possibly because I just bought a Linux hand-held computer from Nokia). It's hard to tell.  Here's their guide to ripping CDs.
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New high-quality audio files may entice audiofiles to buy classical fare on the web.
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The music industry still believes that ripping CDs into MP3s is illegal, despite successfully getting The Washington Post to issue a correction to the contrary. Rippers aren't likely to be sued unless they share tracks on the internet, but the music industry still thinks its customers with iPods are thieves.
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A company that sells ripping software for high-definition disks operates through a corporate maze reaching from Ireland to Antigua. Good luck, MPAA. In 27B Stroke 6.
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Reports of the death of CDs have been greatly exaggerated, according to research published yesterday which said legally downloaded music would represent only a fraction of sales in five years&#39; time.
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LONDON -- The compact disc has at least another five years as the most popular music format before online downloads chip away at its dominance, a new study said on Tuesday.
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I saw an ad in yesterday's NY Times that offered the complete New Yorker magazine archive, including all the cartoons and ads, going back to 1920-something for a bit more than the hard disk would cost. The ad was from J&R, the company that makes the product is Pexagon. $149. Sounds like there might be DRM. I asked for something like this from the music business. A hundred gigs of popular music for $500, all pre-installed on the disk without DRM.  Someone at the New Yorker had this idea too? It's a good one. Bulk content for collector types. Another source of revenue. I want to run my own personal radio station, so having every song of a certain genre or from a certain period makes the diff.
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NEW YORK - Now that digital music players have evolved beyond the ability to store 20 gigabytes worth of music, storage capacity memory is no longer the only factor to consider before buying.
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Hollywood Records is attempting to breathe new life into an ailing musical format, the CD. It has unveiled the CDVU+ format, which it hopes will appeal to those looking for something more than currently offered by the standard 12cm audio disc.â¦
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THEY are the hottest Christmas seller this year and promise to fit entire CD collections into the palm of your hand. Retailers say that MP3 digital audio players are flying off shelves in electrical stores
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Scads of music services are making a power play for your digital dollars. We shine a light into the murk and pick out the gems. By Mathew Honan from Wired Test.