I had to put this up for those of you who haven’t seen it yet. Apparently NY Senator Carl Kruger is going to introduce legislation to ban using Ipods, Blackberrys and other mobile devices while crossing the street. Senator Kruger thinks “it’s creating an atmosphere where we have a major public safety crisis at hand.” […]

Steve Jobs speaks up on Digital Rights Management (DRM).
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This year has proven to be an interesting one for online audio services. Sites like Zamar and Songbird are providing new ways to manage, interact and use audio your lossless audio files.
A new site in this movement called Splice is adding mixing to the list of online lossless audio services. Think of Splice as social […]

Actions Semiconductor provides System-On-Chip solutions for portable consumer electronics and has just announced there new Actions’ Series 13 product family. What is exciting about the Series 13 family is the support for a wide range of audio and video formats including MP3, WMA, OGG, Audible audio, WAV, APE. Samples have been sent to companies with […]

An interesting article on Apple’s attitude when other companies want to use it’s Apple Lossless format.
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A very interesting article has shown up over at MediaLoper.com detailing some of the events that seem to signal the decline of DRM music. They list specific instances where the attitude and content on many of the major online download sites like iTunes and Amazon has started to change or is in the process of […]

It’s that time of year again, when companies start releasing sneak peeks of up and coming products as well as products that will never see any more action than the floor of a convention center. With CES 2007 just getting started new product sightings are getting more common. One such product is Netgear’s EVA800. The […]

A new lossless codec is in in development, TAK formally known as YALAC (Yet Another Lossless Audio Compressor) is the latest lossless format and is currently in beta. A thread following the testing of TAK can be found over at the HydrogenAudio Forums.
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Gracenote is known for providing CDDB services which allow applications like iTunes to retreive information on audio CD’s. This week Gracenote has announced that they are adding ripping to there line of services. While most readers know how to rip there own music, services like this can be useful for friends and relatives. They also […]

So do a lot of other people and so now is the time to voice your opinion. Check out the iTunes FLAC Support page at the FLAC website and let Apple know what you think by filling out the iTunes Feedback Form. We will be adding permenant link on our site to the FLAC/iTunes Support […]

Apparently there was a huge response to last week’s article by the Christian Science Monitor, so much so that they have written a follow up article about the response. The article focused on the idea of sacrificing portability for quality, a plight that most of us have already come to grips with. It is great […]

The welcome addition of cover art support in the latest release of FLAC 1.1.3 is starting to appear in a few applications and utilities. One of these being a patch for the SlimServer software from Slim Devices.
Stay tuned for a list of all the existing and upcoming applications that support this awesome new feature.
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The group over at CD Freaks has interviewed the Rockbox Team as well as putting together a great article detailing the Rockbox Project. In case you are not aware of what the Rockbox project is this is a great place to learn about it.
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Over the last few months there have been an increasing number of articles focusing on the online music industry’s (iTunes, Napster and Yahoo) use of low bitrate audio files and the problems that users may face once they start playing these files through there home stereo systems, media centers and other high end audio components.
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While this is a bit off topic it’s an interesting concept. The Multnomah County Library in Portland Oregon is offering audio books that can be downloaded online. This means no more returning books!
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