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Digital Audio NewsiTunes 8 Cool, Genius Kinda DumbLink: blog.laptopmag.com iTunes 8 Cool, Genius Kinda Dumb September 12th, 2008 by Joanna Stern Apple made tech headlines earlier this week with the release of its new iPods and iTunes 8. We downloaded iTunes 8 just minutes after it became available on Tuesday and have been using it for the last few days. The standout feature of iTunes 8 was supposed to be Apple’s Genius feature which “helps you discover songs in your library you never knew you had—and rediscover forgotten favorites.” We gave Genius a chance (3 days,Firmware 2.1 arrives for iPhone (updated)Link: blogs.zdnet.com Firmware 2.1 arrives for iPhone (updated 2x) Posted by Jason D. O'Grady @ 6:59 am Categories: iPhone, Firmware Tags: Apple iPhone, Firmware, Firmware 2.1, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady Apple has started pushing out the iPhone 2.1 firmware via iTunes. The 237.8MB update is available by connecting your iPhone to iTunes and clicking on the update button. Luckily I spent last night backing up my iPhone. The published list of chanYahoo Hopes Music Hub Could Lead to Universal Music PreferencesLink: blog.wired.com Rather than cloister users into its own services, Yahoo Music plans to give them what they want -- even that means easy access to sites Yahoo once viewed as the competition. Yahoo's motivation isn't entirely altruistic: it plans to track user preferences across services it doesn't control to create what it hopes will become a calling card music lovers can use to identify their tastes and desires wherever they may roam. When the late October redesign launches, Yahoo Music users will be able toVideo: Hands-on with Apple's new in-ear headphonesLink: crave.cnet.co.uk Video: Hands-on with Apple's new in-ear headphones Related entries: MP3 & Digital Music Tags: apple Apple's in-ear headphones look and feel high-quality, as we saw first-hand at the recent launch. They include two balanced-armature drivers in each earpiece, three pairs of differently sized silicone ear tips, a screw-on metal grille covering the aperture, two extra replacement grilles and a plastic case with a cable wrap.Macworld 2009 registration is now openLink: applegazette.com Apple fans - it’s time to register for Macworld 2009. Registration has officially opened for next January’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco, California. Events this year include graphic design, digital photography, digital music, IT, and others. Steve Jobs hasn’t officially been announced as the Keyonte speaker - but - you know, it’s highly likely. You can register now at MacworldExpo.com. &Macworld '09 registration opens todayLink: tuaw.com Filed under: MacworldPull out your credit cards, Apple fans. Registration has officially opened for next January's Macworld Expo in sunny California. There are eight tracks of events to follow this year, including graphic design, digital photography, digital music, IT and more. Plus, Steve Jobs usually shows up with an announcement or two. We'll be covering the events at Macworld '09, so make sure you've got TUAW bookmarked.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsEconMusic, Sept. 23: New Speakers: BPI CEO Geoff Taylor To Keynote; Danny Rimer, Others AddedLink: paidcontent.org EconMusic, Sept. 23: New Speakers: BPI CEO Geoff Taylor To Keynote; Danny Rimer, Others Added By Amanda Natividad - Thu 11 Sep 2008 03:52 PM PST With less then two weeks to go, we’ve added to an already excellent lineup for our EconMusic conference at London’s Natural History Museum on Sept. 23. Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI, signed on for our keynote Q&A. Danny Rimer, a partner at Index Ventures, Steve Purdham, CEO of We7, and Ed Averdieck, director of Peter Gabriel’s RealBose 40250 SoundDock iPod Digital Music System - $215 ShippedLink: gadgetreview.com J&R is kicking the best deal on the Web for the Bose 40250 SoundDock iPod Digital Music System. It’s $269 - $54 instant savings + Free Shipping = $215 Shipped! Features: Works with a variety of iPods and included attachments for old versions Includes remote, magnetically shielded, room filling sound Buy it: Bose 40250 SoundDock iPod Digital Music System - $215Zune's Recommendations Make Genius Look AverageLink: blog.wired.com Microsoft showed us a sneak preview of the Zune 3.0 software it plans to release on Sept. 16 with the latest generation of Zune devices, and what we saw made iTunes' simple Genius feature look like a blast from digital music's past. While iTunes serves up a text list of recommended songs within your library and from the iTunes store, adding to the more basic recommendations its MiniStore feature used to make, Zune reinvented the recommendation concept by collapsing artists, albums and fans intSlacker Interactive Radio Coming Soon to the BlackberryLink: blog.wired.com The Slacker interactive radio service will be accessible on RIM's Blackberry devices starting in October, offering users of those devices a way to listen to artist channels, expert-programmed stations and customized channels that can be created and edited through a web interface or the device itself. Unlike most other portable audio services, Slacker also includes artist information from AMG (the All Music Guide), so you can research newly discovered bands as you liste. As with Slacker's web-Apple's Genius music recommendations offer mixed resultsLink: latimesblogs.latimes.com Apple is receiving mixed reviews for its Genius software feature that Steve Jobs unveiled Tuesday. Genius comes with the latest version of iTunes. The service first scans your music library. Then, when you pick a particular song, Genius generates a playlist of 25 other songs that it deems related. It also suggests songs that it considers missing from your digital music collection and, of course, offers to sell them to you right there through iTunes. An Apple executive told me at the event thaSlacker bringing music services to BlackBerryLink: intomobile.com Another little gem coming out of Jim Balsillie’s keynote address at CTIA is the partnership between RIM and music service Slacker. Slacker follows the same vein as Pandora and Last.fm, where your feedback will change the music that’s presented to you, only instead of fishing in a giant bucket of digital music or latching on to your friends’ tastes, Slacker organizes channels by genres full of music hand-picked by musical experts and lets you give selections the thumbs-up or thumbs-down as theGallery: iPod nano 4G unboxingLink: blogs.zdnet.com Gallery: iPod nano 4G unboxing Posted by Jason D. O'Grady @ 1:12 pm Categories: iPod, iPod nano, Gallery Tags: 4G, Apple iPod, Apple iPod Nano, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O'Grady I received my iPod nano 4G today and posted a quick gallery of the unboxing. So far, it’iTunes' New Genius Engine: A Threat To Filters?Link: paidcontent.org iTunes’ New Genius Engine: A Threat To Filters? By Robert Andrews - Thu 11 Sep 2008 09:12 AM PST Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) addition of a music recommendation engine to iTunes this week will have brought a nervous gulp from those already in that space. One such, Peter Gabriel-backed TheFilter, saw fit to issue a press release last night, designed to differentiate its nascent offering from that of Steve Jobs. CEO David Maher-Roberts said he “genuinely welcomes” iTunes’ new Genius feature as validaAltec Lansing inMotion MAX and GLOW; Expressionist BASS 2.2 desktop speakersLink: slashgear.com Altec Lansing have unveiled a number of new audio systems, including a high-quality portable speaker dock for the iPhone 3G, a combination speaker dock, FM radio and clock (with color changing mood light), and a desktop speaker system with integrated dual subwoofers. The inMotion MAX Portable Digital Music System uses the company’s proprietary ESS technology with XdB bass-enhancement and twin stereo speakers. It’s fully WiFi and cellphone shielded, so can be used with the iPhone 3G (or originApple iTunes team DID acquire Magnetosphere visualiserLink: 9to5mac.com The developers of the Magnetosphere visualiser that was so strongly expected to be included within iTunes 8 have now confirmed all these rumours were correct. iTunes 8 does indeed feature a new visualiser, and that visualiser is Magnetosphere, as we predicted last week (with thanks to the excellent Create Digital Music website). Video producer and designer Allan White has claimed Magnetosphere was purchased by Apple for deployment within iTunes. It's not the first time Apple's purchased a tWu-Tang Clan: Wu Music Group goes digitalLink: prefixmag.com Yesterday, RZA of the Wu Tang Clan announced a deal with The Orchard that would make 10 classic Wu Tang-related albums available through the digital music retailer. Among the albums ...Possible fix for iTunes 8 BSODLink: blogs.zdnet.com Possible fix for iTunes 8 BSOD Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 7:02 am Categories: Apple, Vista, How to ... Tags: Apple iPhone, BSOD, Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Are you finding that iTunes 8 crashes when you connect your iPod/iPhone to your Vista PC? This post might have the answers your are looking for. Yeah! Yeah! I finally managed to get iTunes 8 to BSOD on a system here. Oddly enough I can only getWhy legit digi music services fail (and how they can survive) (Crazed by the Music)Link: popmatters.com Admittedly, he has his own vested interest in the topic but MP3Tunes honcho Michael Robertson has an interesting perspective about why label-approved digital music services fail in this article from...Sony launches thinnest Walkman digital music playersLink: fareastgizmos.com The new line of Sony NW-S630FK series Walkman digital music players come with a detachable speaker unit. The new player is the thinnest in Sony Walkman series. The player measures 7.5 millimeters and weighs only 46 grams. The new Walkman players- NW-S630FK, NW-S630F and NW-S730F will be available in four colors and in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB capacities. They all support MP3, WMA, ATRAC, ATRAC Advanced Lossless, PCM, AAC, HE-AAC music formats, MPEG-4, H.264 AVC, WMV9 video formats, and JPEG image file |
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