Music: September 2009

Sunday, September 27, 2009

5 Trends in Digital Music

It’s unlikely that you’ve wooed someone by holding an iPod over your head in the rain. How we enjoy, share, discover, market and remix music has dramatically changed in the last two decades. While many of us are still rabid fans, technology allows us to wear the hat of producer, musician and distributor. Below are some of the latest trends in music and technology.

Click here to see the 5 trends from Mashable.com

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Friday, September 25, 2009

The Evolution of Mobile Phones 5min.com

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Twones: Your Digital Music Lifestream

Like many of you, I’m a music fanatic. Because I spend most of my day in front of a computer screen, I always have some sort of music playing in the background, either in iTunes, or increasingly in one of the many, many music streaming services. Because my listening points are dispersed all over the web, keeping track of what I listen to isn’t always easy. Today, a new music service, Twones, is launching in private beta and it aims to solve just that problem. Twones lets users track what they are listening to across more than 25 different online services and then tag those songs into playlists, share them with friends on Twitter, and replay them right from the browser. Read More>

Twones: Your Digital Music Lifestream

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Windows Media Demos: Audio Quality

The Windows Media Audio and Video 9 Series codecs deliver unmatched audio quality at any bit rate.

Windows Media Audio 9 vs. MP3
	The Windows Media Audio 9 codec delivers superior quality at a fraction of the bit rate compared to MP3. Listen to the audio files in the demo to hear why Windows Media is the leader in digital media quality. You will need a broadband connection to experience this demo. Play Demo

Windows Media Audio 9 Professional and Surround Sound
	Immerse yourself in surround sound with Windows Media Audio 9 Professional. You will need a system capable of playing back multichannel audio. Play Latin Music Demo (192 Kbps) Play World Beat Demo (192 Kbps) Play Race Cars Demo (1.2 Mbps progressive download - What is this?) Play Pinball Demo (1.2 Mbps progressive download - What is this?) Play Snowboard Demo (1.2 Mbps progressive download - What is this?)

Windows Media Audio 9 Professional vs. MP3
	Hear for yourself how Windows Media Audio 9 Professional enables you to immerse yourself in 5.1-channel surround sound at the same bit rate as stereo MP3 files. You will need a broadband connection and a system capable of playing back multichannel audio. Play Demo

Combined Voice and Music Content with Windows Media Audio 9 Voice
	Until now, low-bit-rate codecs have been optimized for either music content or voice content, but not both. The Windows Media Audio 9 Voice codec is the first-ever mixed-mode voice and music codec. It delivers a much improved experience for content such as radio broadcasts, advertising, e-books, or voiceovers. This demo compares today's most common voice codec with the Windows Media Audio 9 Voice codec at 8 Kbps. Try it now to hear the difference. Play Demo

Backward compatibility: The Windows Media Audio and Video 9 Series codecs are automatically downloaded by Windows Media Player 7.1 and Windows Media Player for Windows XP, but to get the ultimate experience, you should download Windows Media Player 9 Series or later for playing content and Windows Media Encoder 9 Series for creating new content.

Windows Media Demos: Audio Quality

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Latest Music News

Music Fans Get the Chance to Play with Over 40 Interactive Singles from Major Artists
(Business Wire) -- MXP4 announced that over 40 artists are now using MXP4`s interactive digital music solution to power interactive singles. MXP4`s solution allows fans to interact with songs and play with the music... Michael Jackson & The Jackson 5, Sliimy, Dave Stewart, Pet Shop Boys, La Roux, Speech Debelle & Bat For Lashes amongst leading artists releasing interactive digital singles.

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iTunes LP: The First Digital Album Good Enough to Criticize
By Pete Mortensen -- Of all of Apple's announcements, only the digital album format iTunes LP (also known as Cocktail) qualifies as a major improvement to a nascent technology. Simply put, though Apple long ago figured out how to sell music as digital downloads, it's taken until now for them or anyone else to get in the ballpark of how to make those downloads feel anywhere near as special as a physical CD or LP.

iTunes LP

TuneWiki for iPhone
By Brian Beam -- Ever sing along to a song, only to realize you're mumbling through half of it because you only know part of the lyrics? If so, give TuneWiki a try. Once available only for jailbroken iPhones, TuneWiki serves as a media player and song lyric database.

TuneWiki

Twilight of the iPods
Sales of Apple's music player are heading for a long-term decline which could affect digital music downloads. Can connectivity alter that? Charles Arthur investigates.

Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Mobile Web & Augmented Reality
By Richard Macmanus -- This week ReadWriteWeb is running a series of posts analyzing the 5 biggest Web trends of 2009. So far we've explored these trends: Structured Data, The Real-Time Web, Personalization. The fourth part of our series is on Mobile Web. We're including Augmented Reality in this category, as we think it's a key element of where the Mobile Web is heading circa 2009.

Pigeon Transfers Data Faster than South Africa's Telkom
By Peroshni Govender -- A South African information technology company on Wednesday proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom, the country's leading internet service provider.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

TheBeatles.com Official Site

Welcome to the all new website - we have packed it with music, photographs, video and memorabilia. Create your own playlist of favourite Beatles tracks, and weave your way through a Beatles audio visual experience...

TheBeatles.com