Jazz Odyssey

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A recently released plug-in to the popular Winamp audio player allows users to use Winamp to manage music on their iPods, eliminating the need to use iTunes as a music manager/organizer for their iPod. In fact, the Winamp […]

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Wired reports: "Whiz kid inventor Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the thousands of movies, music tracks, software programs and other files for download over Cohen’s popular BitTorrent protocol….The ranked search results will be accompanied […]

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According to this article in Wired, Usenet (newsgroups) are seeing a resurgence in use that is driven largely by piracy. Usenet was an early Internet technology that was mostly used as a bulletin board that was largely used by the more technically inclined. File attachments to usenet posts were a big no-no […]

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On October 18th, the pilot for the new Battlestar Galactica premiered in the U.K., 3 months before it was due to premiere on the Sci-Fi Channel in the U.S. in January. Within a couple of hours of the U.K. broadcast, copies of the pilot began to circulate through various BitTorrent networks. This "piracy" […]

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Don’t answer until you’ve read this amazing piece by Ian Rogers on the pros and cons of Yahoo’s latest music offering. From basic functionality to geekier topics like plugins, skins and support for FLAC format (yay!!!), this piece is absolutely essential reading for anyone in the digital music space who wants to understand how […]

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The Wall Street Journal reports:

"Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday plans to roll out an aggressively-priced online music service, in a bold move to undercut rivals and win consumers over to a music subscription model in which they rent songs rather than buying them outright. The new service, dubbed Yahoo Music Unlimited, will give individuals unlimited access […]

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"prog rock is again being hailed for restoring art to modern rock, allowing innovative musicianship to be revered instead of reviled."
Renée Graham of The Boston Globe takes a look at the perceived prog rock revival in this article. Perhaps a return to prog rock as a legitimately respected and commercially viable musical genre would […]

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EMI has signed an agreement with Snocap, the company founded by Napster creator Shawn Fanning. EMI will use Snocap, which is a program that allows music files to be shared but is able to identify copyrighted music files and prevent those files from being traded unless the user pays a fee. Read all […]

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The New York Times takes a look at advances in cell phone technology. As more and more noise gets made about music via mobile phones becoming big business, it makes you wonder if people really want an “all in one” device that handles communication and entertainment, or if dedicated devices will rule the day. […]

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A new service called Music On Command allows radio listeners in the U.S. to call a toll-free number while listening to the radio and have a link to purchase the song (or talk radio, news broadcast etc) from Buy.com emailed to them. Read more about it here and sign up for the beta test […]

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“Sun Microsystems has unveiled a technology that will recommend songs to users based on an analysis of the music that they already enjoy. The technology analyses features such as rhythm and beat strength to categorise the music. It then searches for files with similar attributes.”
Kinda makes you want to splice the left […]

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