Missing the Big Picture

Written on July 03, 2008 by Jethro Jones and 6 people have commented

There is a lot of buzz surrounding music labels’ agreements to sell DRM-free music in marketplaces other than the iTunes Music Store. The problem is that they miss the big picture. They don’t pay attention to the two things that really matter.

People want to be able to buy their music easily
People want their purchased music [...]

9.5 Million Songs Per Day

Written on June 19, 2008 by Jethro Jones and 4 people have commented

On February 27th, Apple announced that it had sold 4 billion songs total in the iTunes Music Store. Today, Apple quietly announced that it has now sold over 5 billion songs. Let’s do some quick math. It has been 114 days. One billion songs in 114 days is just over 9.5 million songs every day. [...]

Apple is #1 (in music)

Written on April 03, 2008 by Jethro Jones and 7 people have commented

Ars Technica is reporting that the NPD Group’s numbers are out! Apple is the number one distributor of music. They sell more music than anyone else, well, besides those “others” who are always throwing a wrench in the plan.

Credit: Ars Technica
Apple was in third place in just June of 2007. They have been steadily [...]

CoverSutra

Written on January 16, 2008 by Stephanie Guertin and 7 people have commented

I love iTunes (and my massive music library); if my MBP is open, there’s a 98% chance that it’s got music coming out. Using it all day long like this, I wanted some hot keys for it.
Man oh man, did I find some. After trying a host of options - including Quicksilver - [...]

DRM-Free Tracks From iTunes on Tuesday?

Written on October 15, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 1 person has commented

It appears that we may be hearing from Apple in a few hours, on the topic of DRM-Free digital music downloads. Details seem to indicate that the EMI tracks that have historically been available for $1.29 without any copy protection, will drop to the normal $.99 price point. Along with EMI, some Indie [...]

Amazon MP3 Walkthrough

Written on October 09, 2007 by Josh Pigford and 16 people have commented

Amazon recently launched a really great effort in the digital music arena called Amazon MP3. I’ve been a hardcore iTunes Store customer since it’s debut and haven’t really been tempted by other digital music stores. That is, until Amazon MP3 made its debut.

eMusic: Now it’s universal

Written on September 07, 2007 by Billy Halsey and 11 people have commented

The big news this week is undoubtedly Apple’s announcement of the new iPod product line and the lower price of the iPhone. With new iPods comes a new version of iTunes — 7.4 in this case — but despite The Steve’s Thoughts On Music and NBC’s very public departure from the iTunes Store, iTunes [...]

John Lennon: Now playing at the iTunes store

Written on August 14, 2007 by Billy Halsey and 2 people have commented

Fans of The Beatles and John Lennon can now officially rejoice: As of today, sixteen of Lennon’s solo albums are available for the first time for immediate download from the iTunes Store. Some of those albums also contain exclusive video content for the first 30 days of availability—so get them while the getting’s good.
The albums [...]

Share Your iTunes — Simply

Written on July 19, 2007 by Billy Halsey and 5 people have commented

Thanks to innovative software Simplify Media, sharing your killer iTunes library has never been easier. In the good ol’ days before DRM was such a hot topic, libraries could be shared unfettered across the Net. Simplify Media makes that possible once again by allowing users to invite others to browse and stream their iTunes to [...]

Moody: Mood tag your tunes

Written on July 18, 2007 by Josh Pigford and 13 people have commented

For the past month or so I’ve been using Crayon Room’s Moody app almost religiously. It’s just so good.
Moody lets you tag your iTunes music based on color with “upper red” being for sad-intense music and “lower green” being for happy-calm music. There’s no right or wrong way to tag a tune, so it’s [...]

Make Music: Little to No Talent Needed

Written on July 02, 2007 by Iyaz Akhtar and 9 people have commented

Let’s say you’re a budding musician or a podcaster who would like to have some music for your show but you don’t want to run into any potential copyright issues. I had this situation pop up when I had to get some music for my new vidcast, Complicate Life. Using someone else’s work [...]

Screencast: Automator Plugins

Written on June 27, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 14 people have commented

Since Tiger was released it has seemed to me that Automator was one of the unsung heroes that shipped with the operating system. I’m guessing more people use it than we hear about, but just in case, I wanted to show off the use of Automator when saving workflows as plugins, rather than Automator [...]

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