With the status and opinion of DRM being questionable it is nice to see sites offering DRM free music. Zunior is a Canadian site that offers DRM free music in both MP3 and Flac formats. MP3 albums are $8.88 and encoded at 192 kbps and Flac albums are $10.88. These prices are very competitive compared […]

Two companies have teamed up to create a interesting use of the ZP80 wireless hub from Sonos. Speaker maker PMC and a media integration company by the name of Digital Plumbers have come together to create a wireless speaker that embedded a Sonos ZP80 inside of a PMC speaker. Curently this product is only available […]

The latest version of FLAC has been released bringing the current version to 1.1.4. This has been a great year for Flac users with many new devices providing hardware support and the release of 1.1.3 which brought a host of much anticipated features. With Flac 1.1.4 the theme is speed, many improvements in both compression […]

The Glasgow based company who developed the Sondek LP12 turntable have added high quality lossless downloads to their list of available formats. Linn Records is known for there high quality SACD and HDCD offerings but high quality WMA Lossless downloads are now being included. Additional formats include MP3 as well as a CD quality WMA […]

The chief executive of the RIAA has reponded to Job’s comments on DRM stating that Apple should make it’s anti-piracy technology openly available. What is great about this dialog is that it shows that DRM in its current state is clearly not working.
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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 […]

 
While I do have a old Bondi Blue Mac running Mac OS X 10.2 in our kitchen my knowledge of the Mac OS is limited. With many of our readers being Mac users I would like to be able to provide better coverage of the lossless tools and applications available to them. With this being […]

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 […]