Well, it was good while it lasted, but I’ve just downloaded my last album from eMusic.
I was once quite enamoured with this service, so what changed?
Well basically they changed their prices. And by that I mean they increased their prices. And by that I mean their prices went through the roof.
Up until this month [...]
These days, everyone’s a photographer. There can be no doubt that the advent of the digital camera has provided vast numbers with the means to explore their creativity through photography. As such there is a vast and growing industry just to support the great unwashed in their quest to take better photographs, or at least [...]
As you know, I’m a fan of the DRM free music. In fact it seems that I’ve blogged about it each time I’ve discovered a new website that sells the stuff. And the latest discovery is emusic. They have hits and some misses.
Herewith, some comments apropos of the Macworld 08 Keynote, specifically Randy Newman’s performance at the end.
Firstly, the Keynote as a whole seems to have moved from slick-but-reality-distorted marketing into the realms of straight-out entertainment. Apple are simply leading the pack, and I expect Microsoft and others to follow (e.g. Bill Gates’s CES keynote). At the [...]
Broadcast radio is changing. It’s going digital, and with this change broadcasters are likely to start embedding watermarks in the audio stream (if they haven’t already). Podcasters, and other internet music publishers are likely to do the same. Watermarks are inaudible markers that uniquely identify the broadcaster, and are also the key enabling technology of [...]
Amazon recently opened their MP3 store (in “beta” of course). It is awesome.
I don’t know about you, but I certainly didn’t see it coming. Previous Amazon efforts with downloaded content were pretty lame, and I had no idea that they were going to come back with an offering that was as good as this.
Although I [...]
Technology people have an understandable tendancy to be a bit disdainful of printed material. We argue that bits are where the real value lies, and not in the atoms. Although books are seen as valuable and portable offline representations, they are mere projections into the physical world of the real asset, which is digital and [...]
Some brief thoughts on The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins’ latest book.
I was initially reluctant to read The God Delusion, on the assumption that it was going to tell me a lot of things I already know, and reinforce views I already have. And I assumed that it was just going to make me cross. Upon [...]
The features I want out of an online music store are:
No DRM. At all. Seriously. MP3 encoded at a high bitrate (diskspace is cheap). Optional lossless encoding. Reasonable prices. Must be legit (rules out allofmp3 for example). Decent website with online previews. Appropriate embedded meta-data.
I am happy to say that although it is not perfect, Bleep is pretty close to satisfying [...]
There’s a science fiction story I read as a kid, and I want to say that it’s Phillip K. Dick’s Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, but that may not be right. In this story, or one like it, I can remember being amused and confused at the decadent characters in the story who, as [...]
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