The iXA-W404 is Alpine's First Touchscreen iPhone Compatible Receiver [Ces 2009]
Alpine is rolling out their new lineup of receivers, with the iXA-W404 leading the charge. It features a 4.3-inch QVGA touchscreen monitor that more or less mimics coverflow. Beyond the touchscreen na ....... Read more 4 hours ago
Handmade music - Thursday, 1/15
Heads up, the next Handmade music meet-up will happen Thursday of next week @ 3rd Ward in Brooklyn. This time we've even got someone to bring the drinks! Eminent Eventmaster Peter Kirn of CDM writ ....... Read more 1 day ago
iTunes Goes DRM Free - But No Social Network Just Yet
At the Macworld 2009 keynote today, Apple announced that by the end of this quarter, all 10 million songs available on iTunes will be DRM free [Digital Rights Management]. As of today, 8 million songs ....... Read more 1 day ago
Sansa slotRadio Comes With 1,000 Songs Preloaded [Portable Audio]
Do you enjoy music but not enough to care what specific music you're listening to? Then the Sansa slotRadio is designed for you, it comes with 1,000 "hand picked" songs. No taste required. Yes, Sandis ....... Read more 1 day ago
Linksys Wireless Home Audio System Streams All Around Your House, Secretly Aspires to Kill Sonos [Streaming]
Linksys' new Wireless Home Audio system is very similar in function to Sonos' streaming home audio system, and on specs alone, manages to out spec the latter in some areas. The Wireless Home Audio sys ....... Read more 1 day ago
iTunes Gets DRM Free, New Prices, Purchase Over 3G [Macworld 2009]
iTunes is going DRM free and breaking their single-price rule with three points: 69 cents, 99 cents, and $1.29. Not surprised, given the pressure from other music stores. The iPhone will allow 3G down ....... Read more 1 day ago
Apple Makes DRM Deal with Big Three music Labels, Plus 3G Downloads Coming? [Unconfirmed]
According to CNET sources, Apple has signed deals with Sony BMG, Universal, and Warner to bring flexibly-priced DRM-free music to iTunes while simultaneously introducing music downloads to the iPhone' ....... Read more 1 day ago
Rest in Peace, Olde Tyme Automatic Player Pianos [Retromodo]
The gradual, relentless digitization of everything takes a little longer to seep into the more obscure technological quarters. The latest outmoded gadget to fall? The analog player piano. Old-style pl ....... Read more 1 day ago
Amazon's Best-Selling Album Download of 2008 Was Available for Free
In March 2008, Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails released the first part of Ghosts I-IV via BitTorrent, and released all four albums under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike licen ....... Read more 2 days ago
iPhone apps round-up: Ambient music for the mind
(Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - I donât know about you, but I like to listen to background music while I work. ....... Read more 5 days ago
music sales for 2008 ride digital coattails
(CNET)
CNET - Digital music, long the bane of the music industry, may finally be something that record label executives can smile about. ....... Read more 6 days ago
Audiolizer: Take Your iTunes Library With You
We just pointed out Audiolizer as one of the three music services you should try next year, and thanks to a slew of new features the developers implemented this week, we think it has become an even mo ....... Read more 8 days ago
Sequels keep video games buzzing in 2008
(Reuters)
Reuters - Despite the sluggish global economy, video game sales remained recession-proof in 2008 as game sequels were snapped up by fans and music games struck the right note. ....... Read more 9 days ago
Sonoma updates RiffWorks for Mac, FourTrack for iPhone
(Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Sonoma Wire Works updated two of its apps, one for the Mac and one for the iPhone, to work together when creating music. ....... Read more 12 days ago
What is Creative Zii Stemcell Computing? Your Guess is as Bad as Mine [Mysteries]
A teaser for something called Zii was sent out by Creative, a company known for soundcards, mentioning the ambitious sounding and pretend terminology "stemcell computing". Updated 3:47pm: iTunes Compe ....... Read more 12 days ago
Sequels keep video games buzzing in 2008
(Reuters)
Reuters - Despite the sluggish global economy, video game sales remained recession-proof in 2008 as game sequels were snapped up by fans and music games struck the right note. ....... Read more 13 days ago