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MP3, Microsoft, Videos, Zune
Microsoft Zune 2 To Debut On 10/2/2007
10.01.07 | Permalink | Comment?

“Microsoft will hold a event on Tuesday in Redmond to herald the second generation of Zune music players, BetaNews has learned.

According to sources close to the situation, both Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Design and Development chief J Allard will be on hand for the event. The main part of the announcement will center around the players, which will include the first flash memory based Zunes.

Entering the flash-based device market is very important for Microsoft, as the category is by far the most popular. While the Zune has managed to grab a 10 percent share of the HDD player segment, overall that has amounted to about a 3 percent share of the market in general.Not much change in the Zune’s design will accompany the new HDD players, which would look similar but thinner. The flash based players will measure 3-inches by 1.25-inches and are said to look much like the iPod nano. The smaller Zunes will be video capable, and are rumored to include Wi-Fi and higher storage than competing products.

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Amazon, Copyright, MP3, iTunes
Amazon Officially Takes on Apple’s iTunes
09.25.07 | Permalink | Comment?
Now Amazon.com offers music on CDs or as instant MP3 downloads through our Amazon MP3 store. Amazon MP3 offers music lovers these great benefits:
- Selection: Every day we add new music to our collection of over 2 million songs from independent and major label artists. We’re continually working with music labels to offer more and more content in the MP3 format.
- Quality: Our MP3 tracks are encoded at 256 kbps, which gives you high-quality audio at a reasonable file size. This means your music sounds great and downloads quickly.
- Freedom: Because we sell MP3 files with absolutely no rights management software, you’re free to listen to your music on any device you’d like.
- Value: Amazon MP3 offers high-quality DRM-free downloads at low prices. Find full albums as low as $4.99 and tracks as low as 89 cents.
As one of the first to shop Amazon MP3, you get to see new features and content updated daily. We’ve launched Amazon MP3 as a public Beta, and we look forward to receiving feedback from you and using your input to refine the service.

If you have ideas about how we can improve Amazon MP3, we want to hear from you. Email us your tips at amazonmp3-feedback@amazon.com.
50 Cent, Amy Winehouse, Diddy, Jay-Z, MP3, YouTube
Two Tracks Set To Dominate September 2007
09.18.07 | Permalink | Comment?

50 Cent feat. Diddy & Jay-Z - I Get Money (Remix):

Mark Ronson feat. Amy Winehouse - Valerie (Video):
Hip Hop, MP3, NSFW, Swizz Beatz, Videos, YouTube
Swizz Beatz - One Man Band Man - 2007’s Most UnderAppreciated Album
09.16.07 | Permalink | Comment?

One Man Band Man is the solo debut album from record producer Swizz Beatz. Intended to be released on June 5, 2007, it was pushed back a first time to July 17, 2007 and ultimately to August 23, 2007.^[1] The album will be released under Full Surface Records/Universal Motown Records.The album debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200 chart dated September 8, 2007, selling about 45,000 copies in its first week. It also debuted at number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.^[2]

Guests included Drag-On, Lil’ Wayne, R. Kelly, Jadakiss, and Chris Martin of Coldplay. Swizz Beatz himself has produced half of the album, with other producers contributing such as Needlz, also new-comers Young World Music and more. The first single off the album is called “It’s Me Bitches“.

The explicit (retail) version of the album leaked on August 8 2007.

The album fell quickly, falling to 42 in its second week and 52 in its third.

It’s Me B*tches - The REMIX:
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Hip Hop, Linkin Park, MP3
5 Songs Lost in the Kanye/50 and Britney Hype
09.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Here are some recently released songs that you might’ve missed:

UGK - International Players:

Linkin Park - Bleed It Out:

Common - Drivin Me Wild:

Nelly Furtado - Do It:

T.I. - You Know What It Is:
MP3, MySpace, Nickelback, Semantic Web, Videos
Nickelbar - Rockstar - Semantic View
09.08.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Nickelback - All the Right Reasons - Rockstar (Unedited) -

Song Meaning via Wikipedia
The song details the stereotype that most people have about the life of a rockstar. The lead singer, Chad Kroeger, assumes the role of a person wanting to get to that life. It also features many clichés and popular beliefs of what fame can get one, such as

“I want a brand new house/ on an episode of Cribs/ And a bathroom I can play baseball in/ And a king size tub big enough/ for ten plus me/ I’ll need a credit card that’s got no limit/ And a big black jet with a bedroom in it/ Gonna join the mile high club/ At thirty-seven thousand feet/ I want a new tour bus full of old guitars/ My own star on Hollywood Boulevard.” ^[1]

Spoken-word vocals between each verse are provided by Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. Gibbons assumes the role of the rock star who has already made it, asking challenging questions to the would-be newcomer. Others have interpreted his lines as the devil egging the narrarator on to sell his soul for the rockstar lifestyle, (i.e. “Tell me watcha want”,”Ah, so watcha need? “). ^[2] It is also mentioned that Billy Gibbons character is not an aged rocker. As he is offering not just advice to the new rocker it is possible that Billy’s character may be the devil. This comes from the long history in music of hopefuls allegedly selling their souls for fortune and fame as a musician. The most famous of these being blues patriarch Robert Johnson.
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Apple, Hack, MP3, iPhone, iTunes
Create your own custom MP3 ringtones for the Apple iPhone
09.07.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Hack via TUAW: “iTunes 7.4 makes it especially easy to add and sync ringtones with your iPhone–without having to pay for a third-party installer. TUAW reader Arnold Kim passed along a link to this fabulous MacRumors post with a method attributed to “Cleverboy” and Nicholas “Drudge” Penree sent me additional instructions.

It goes basically like this: iTunes uses the m4r file extension for Ringtones. If you copy an AAC file from your library and rename it from .m4a to .m4r and then add it back to iTunes, the program reads it back in as a ringtone rather than a normal library track. You can then sync it to your iPhone. I’ve tested this with both an MP3 that I converted to AAC and with a track I purchased from the iTunes store. They both worked.

The secret lies in making sure the name change happens properly. This isn’t a big problem on Windows. On the Mac though there are protections in place to keep you from renaming the file extension–this isn’t to keep you from making ringtones. It’s to keep you from hurting your files. So either do the rename in Terminal or select the file you want to rename and open the Info window. Scroll down to the Name & Extension field and change the extension to m4r there.

At this time, the m4r items do not appear in your Library. You can only see them when you select an iPhone in the sources list and then click on the Ringtones tab.

Update: Use this technique only for tracks you’ve copied from your personal CD collection.”
Copyright, Internet, MP3, Movies, Politics, Videos
The Pirate Bay Won’t Bow Down to “Weak” US Government
09.07.07 | Permalink | Comment?

“It is no secret that the MPAA was involved in the raid on The Pirate Bay during May last year. They kindly pressured Swedish authorities to take down the popular BitTorrent tracker a few months before the infamous raid. John Malcolm, executive vice-president of the MPAA wrote to the State Secretary (pdf), “It is certainly not in Sweden’s best interests to earn a reputation among other nations and trading partners as a place where utter lawlessness with respect to intellectual property rights is tolerated.”

In addition, it turned out that US authorities had threatened to put Sweden on WTO’s black list if they didn’t take the Pirate Bay down. This threat should have have made the Swedish government move even quicker. By now we all know that the raid was highly unsuccessful, the Pirate Bay Bay was back in action within three days, and it still is. However, this does not mean that the MPAA and US authorities have given up their goal to take the Swedes down, they continue to lobby for their cause…” –originally reported by TorrentFreak.com
Copyright, Google, Hack, Kanye West, MP3, Search
The Kanye West Top 11 for 9/11/2007
09.07.07 | Permalink | Comment?

With the much-hyped Kanye West/50 Cent battle just days away, here’s why Kanye should win out…

The following MP3s are streamed via this Google search results hack:
The Good Life (next single):

Through the Wire:

Diamonds are Forever:

Jesus Walks:

All Falls Down:

Touch the Sky:

Stronger:

GoldDigger

Slow Jamz:

The New Workout Plan:

Homecoming:
Apple, Internet, MP3, Videos, iPod, iTunes
iPod Touch Announced Today
09.05.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Today, Apple revealed the rumored, iPod Touch. Essentially, it’s an iPhone without Camera or Phone.