An Open Music Platform
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John Gruber observes on Daring Fireball, &#147;The iPod, iTunes, and iTMS work with any modern personal computer, Windows or Mac. Yes, the original iPod debuted as a Mac-only peripheral, and iTunes for Windows appeared even later &#151; but Apple offered complete support for Windows relatively quickly. The iPod and iTunes are fully compatible with your existing CD and MP3 music collections.&#148; [Aug 20]
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Development of native Linux audio plugins and softsynths may not be so relentlessly rapid as it is in the Windows and Mac sound software worlds, but new things do appear. This week I profile a cool new (well, relatively new) Linux softsynth, William Weston's Phase Harmonic Advanced Synthesis EXperiment, also known as Phasex. read more
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aTunes is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform player and manager, with audio cd rip front-end. Currently supported formats are mp3, ogg, wav, wma, flac, mp4, ape, mpc, mac, radio streaming and podcasts.   The aTunes, Jajuk and Jukes audio player projects are pleased to  announce the start of close collaboration on shared ressources. The  three projects aim at providing full-featured cross-platform jukeboxes  for advanced users. As a first result, the Jukebox Power Pack has been  released. It contains the three applications bundled together. Jukebox  Power Pack is the fruit of the first collaboration efforts. Included  with the package is the excellent album Kogani from Suerte. It  symbolizes the spirit with which the software is created, namely  collaboration in an open and creative environment. The Jukebox Power  Pack is able to run on all Java 6-ready platforms, including Microsoft  Windows, Linux and Sun Solaris. Jukebox Power Pack can be downloaded at   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=161929&package_id=242026
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Popular music notation software adds sound library, 'snippets' database, and new options.
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The recording industry is beginning to respond to a proposal made this week by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs calling for an open music system that would allow songs to be played on any device.
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New music sharing network allows users to amass points by referring buyers.
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A site for searching, compiling and downloading music called BlogMusik acts like a publicly available online iPod for anyone to use. And it's only the beginning of a movement that could become the "Napster" of Web 2.0.  In Listening Post.
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If you build itÂyou can release your own music on it.
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Internet radio service Mercora introduces an application that streams music libraries wirelessly. Images: Mercora's "M"
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People have been listening to music on their computers for a long time now - but not quite like this. Microsoft is test-marketing a new Web-based radio service that sounds almost like a local radio station - except without all the interruptions.
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Letter Can collective database licensing cure this tragedy of the commons?
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Judging by the number of hits tallied for Troubleshooting Linux Audio Part 1 it seems the topic is of interest to many readers. Alas, I must apologize to everyone waiting for the next parts of the series. Various events have kept me from completing it in short order, but you may rest assured that it will return in my next installment. Meanwhile, this week we'll look at two excellent applications that are coming into greater use here at Studio Dave, the LiVES video editor for Linux, and Reaper (yes, again), a native Windows audio/MIDI sequencer running under Wine.
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The portable stereos that ruled city streets in the 1980s aren't shipping in high volumes anymore. But some sound artists are finding new ways to incorporate the devices into performances and ad-hoc radio networks. By Elizabeth Biddlecombe.
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This music playback app is only available as a "developer's preview," but it already offers excellent features for grabbing music from MP3 blogs and other web-based music forms. In Listening Post. <img src=" http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/music/xml.gif
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Online music service Finetune and eBay are among those that have written applications on the Apollo AIR platform.
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Christopher Lydon's RadioOpenSource is one of the best programs on radio. It's not about open source code, but about radio modeled on open source values and methods. As the show puts it, Open Source has become one of the most talked-about experiments in public media &#151; a civil union of online and on-air communities that trust each other to talk about pretty much anything.  \
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Though digital music has come a long way, today's online music stores still have significant problems. Here's my fix-it wish list.