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Having a Beatles Weekend

ctitanic — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:10:25 +0000

Oh yeah! The whole weekend listening to a new box set released the last 09/09/09: The Beatles Remastered.

YouTube – The Beatles (Remastered) 2009 – Promo

Nothing compares to this pleasure! The sound is just unbelievable!

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Music Syncing Solutions for the Pre

Zealot — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:18:17 +0000

Now that Apple has closed the loophole which allowed Palm Pre users to sync their music collections using iTunes (for which they are taking a beating in the blogs), a lot of Pre users are looking for alternatives to keep their music collections up to date on their smartphones.

There actually are a wide range of options available that are completely beyond Apple’s ever more draconian control. For example, the Missing Sync, long an essential tool for Mac users who have Palm devices, is continuing to be able to sync iTunes 8.2.1 with the Pre. The software is Mac only, but I have been assured by Mark/Space however that they will soon have versions ready for XP and Vista.

Jason Chen offers concise reviews of several good alternatives for iTunes at Gizmodo. He prefers an app called DoubleClick, but also suggests other possibilities.

Personally I would recommend using Songbird, a high quality iTunes replacement, or the classic music application WinAmp, which has numerous features for syncing your music collection with mobile devices.

However you feel about Apple’s decision (personally I think it is shortsighted and petty) it is not the end of the world, as there are many ways to use your iTunes music collection without ACTUALLY involving iTunes or Apple.

Rock on, freebird.

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Enigma Machine by Jim Allchin

Jack Cook — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:11:06 +0000

This is definitely not what some would think should be on a mobile site but I liked this so much that I made a copy and have it playing on my device ( so there is the mobile aspect). I was fortunate to meet Jim a couple of years ago while at Microsoft, so seeing this had a special meaning to me. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did … besides it’s the weekend … relax and enjoy!

Enigma Machine is the title track from the CD "Enigma" by Jim Allchin featuring his guitar virtuosity and melodic phrasing. For more about the CD and Jim’s music, visit Jim Allchin – The Official Site

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Rhapsody "embracing" the iPod

Jack Cook — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:10:24 +0000

Rhapsody is offering songs online and via partners including Yahoo Inc and Verizon Wireless,that will be sold in MP3 format, so iPod users can now take the challenge … iTunes or Rhapsody.

Described as “Music Without Limits”, Rhapsody will be available on mobile phones via the Verizon Wireless VCAST Music service. Buyers of a song over-the-air directly from phones also will be able to download that song to their computer. Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications Inc and Vodafone Group Plc.

Reuters

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Getting out of your comfort listening zone.

Adam Stafford — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:54:49 +0000

Most folks like the comfort zone where complacency meets safety. There are no worries and you have more certainty but at what cost. Exposure! What am I talking about? Changing your music choices to something you may not normally listen to even if you love the classics in your music genres, there is an artist you haven’t heard.

I have spent much of my free time between full-time work school to continue exploring the Zune Social to check out all of the music my friends and my friends’ friends are listening to. I have found quite a bit of good music and most of the people that I have met through the Social have sent me messages with recommendations. Thanks everyone!

Here are a few ideas for finding new music artists:

Explore the Social. You may be amazed at the stuff people are listening to, no really amazed. It can be nothing like your personal taste, you listen to it long enough to like it or you stumble across a rare find. Adding people to your social is easy and with the constantly growing features of the Social online or in the Zune software.
Find new artists or independents. Sitting in a café on Miami Beach over the weekend listening to a live singer perform or just visiting the Starbucks Music store on Lincoln Road. You can help but hear music all around you. Most restaurants and clothing stores have something playing or their own CDs, stop in and ask what song is playing. There are also the online Indie Feeds such as Indie-Music.com, BeatPick.com, AllMusic.com, AudioFeeds.org and even looking at the Billboard.com Charts songs for what is playing on the radio. You’ll be surprised at how often music changes.
Also try muxfind.com or muxtape.com (thank Jonathan Flowers for the last two.)
Strange Online Services. Pandora (Radio from the Music Genome Project©) is a great example of a service designed to better understand your music listening habits. Of course you should try to stay within some guidelines for your new music selection but don’t go from one extreme to the other like the difference between Acapella and Zydeco. Exploring what others have contributed brings me to the next idea.
Browsing the web. Where do you start and what do you do? Start with browsing your Zune Marketplace, Amazon Music, various radio stations online (recently played list) and any other idea you can think of. Remember the Internet is limitless, although I think I did reach the end of it once or twice.

I leave you with a quote to keep in mind with your music search and everyday life. Happy hunting and enjoy music more.

“If you do what you have always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” – unknown

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Kingston Introduces Special ‘Black & White’ Mobile Memory Kit

Jack Cook — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:02:15 +0000

Kingston Technology Teams with Ricky Martin in Launch of Special ‘Black & White’ Mobile Memory Kit

microSD/USB Reader Kit Preloaded with Music and More from ‘Ricky Martin Live: Black & White Tour’ Exclusive on Amazon.com

CTIA Wireless Show, Las Vegas, NV and Fountain Valley, CA — April 1, 2008 — Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced it has joined forces with GRAMMY- winning superstar Ricky Martin to create a microSD(TM) and USB reader combination for mobile consumers that offers free, preloaded select music, video and mobile phone wallpapers from the recent release of “Ricky Martin Live: Black & White Tour.” The kit is now available in the U.S. at Amazon.com and throughout Latin America.

“I am very excited by the new avenues for sharing music that technology continues to provide,” said Ricky Martin. “I enthusiastically embrace these new formats. They mean global growth for not only my music – but for all music – and that’s why I’m very happy to form this alliance with Kingston.”

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Amazon to Offer More DRM-Free Music

Adam Stafford — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:36:32 +0000

Amazon.com announced Thursday afternoon that Sony BMG Music Entertainment has agreed to sell DRM-Free music via it’s online retail site. This adds the fourth major record company offering music downloads just as its competitor iTunes.

I have been back and fourth with, where I get music downloads such as, Indie music artists, collecting Rhapsody points on my Wendy’s combo meals, the Zune Marketplace and even Amazon.com. I’m hoping for the day when all this media can be more centralized. I find it very difficult to look for music in multiple places to get what I am looking for and am interested in what the future holds for Amazon.

Hopefully it won’t become an online flea market but a pioneer of one-stop shopping.

Source: Information Week

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