Amazon MP3 Friday 5
Posted by Stephen in Personal, Terabyte home on 06. Jun, 2008 | View Comments
I know this will sound like an ad, but please don’t take it that way. I love Amazon’s selection of MP3 downloads – they’re DRM-free and uniformly cheaper than iTunes. And the company has a download app that integrates nicely with iTunes (unlike the eternally-borken Emusic manager).
I was surprised this morning with an email from [...]
Music in the Wild World
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 03. Oct, 2007 | View Comments
OK, so let’s get this whole new world of music straight…
Apple now allows iPhone and iTouch users to buy iTunes songs without a computer and they’ve teamed up with Starbucks to offer in-store song shopping, but not yet…
Amazon.com now sells real mp3s with no DRM or watermarking for less than iTunes, making Apple look like [...]
DRM Lock-In Becomes Lock-Out
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 13. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
Next time someone trots out the old argument that “only pirates hate digital rights management (DRM),” just point out what just happened at the old Googleplex. They just canceled their pay-per-download Google Video site and locked everyone out of the content that they legally paid for. We all knew this could happen with [...]
Making the Switch to Digital Music at Home
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 27. Jul, 2007 | View Comments
After sticking staunchly to real CDs for home listening, I finally succumbed and expanded my terabyte house into the digital audio server domain. In the end, it was audiophile Mark Schlack from TechTarget who won me over – if digital audio is good enough for him, then it ought to be good enough for [...]
