Setting the Music Free
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When you think &#147;dance music,&#148; do you think &#147;disco&#148;? Do you think &#147;techno&#148;? Gabriel &amp; Dresden don&#146;t. For this San Francisco-based duo, music driven by a dance groove needn&#146;t sacrifice emotive melodies and meaning. Created on Macs, their music certainly makes you want to move, but it also gives you something more.
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CDs in the car (unless I hook my iPod up to the stereo) and mp3s everwhere else.
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Former MP3 impresario Michael Robertson tells CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos why "free" need not be a dirty word.
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A start-upâs first product, modeled on the human ear, curbs background noise.
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It's a bit disorienting: slip on a set of headphones, turn up the volume and, while you move about the room, the music stays put &#151; as if coming out of five speakers stuck on a wall.
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Hoping to one-up Apple with its recent move away from digital rights management, high-quality music site MusicGiants began offering DRM-free music recently with the release of Paul McCartney's newest album, Memory Almost Full.
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Papering over the cracks Microsoft is working on closing a loophole that creates a means to strip usage restriction from music files wrapped in its DRM technology. A program called FairUse4WM, recently posted on the internet, allows users to bypass Microsoft's Digital Rights Management (DRM) system.â¦
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SAN FRANCISCO (Billboard) - Customers picking up the latest MP3 players this fall are getting much more than just a device. Increasingly, they're getting free music as well.
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By MAY WONG SAN JOSE, Calif. - Music lovers can sample songs over the Internet without turning on a personal computer in a first-of-a-kind offering that could help popularize the concept of streaming music.
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Devices from AOL, iRiver, and Sandisk will let you acquire tunes without a PC.
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Priced at $249.99, it can play MP3, WMA and WAV-encoded music files.
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All Nick Freer wants is his digital music, and he&#39;s even willing to pay for it. When the Hong Kong-based client-services director bought an iPod, it came with software to link with iTunes, Apple Computer&#39;s
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Next year, wireless operators will debut ways to share a favorite ring tone. But don't expect a Napster free-for-all.
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In the latest proof that the label is at least testing DRM-free music sales, consumers can buy gift cards from physical stores and redeem digital albums online. The bad news is that the music is also "anonymously watermarked."
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Continuing the thread from yesterday. I got absolutely nowhere, some people suggested I use a smart playlist, missing the point that I'm a developer working on a podcatcher, not a user trying to use iTunes as a podcatcher. I'm sure it's an excellent way to subscribe to podcasts, but I have my own ideas how podcatchers should work, and I want to integrate them with other stuff I'm working on. Integrating with iTunes is proving to be quite a challenge, or maybe it's an art, we'll see.  As usual Mac users are superior sumbitches.  (Quoting the James Brolin character the first time we meet him in the third season finale of The West Wing.) Anyway, the search continues, I tried another more direct tack, and looked for glue for iTunes for UserLand, and bingo, there's a match, from 2001, a well-known Frontier programmer Sean Elfstrom, apparently converted glue for the Sonic SoundJam app that iTunes used to be, before Apple acquired it.  I installed the glue in the OPML Editor. It's daunting, for sure, but let's see what I can get working.
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Also: Yahoo: DRM-free music by year's end. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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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.