Posts Tagged with ‘mp3’

Trailing behind it main rival WalMart and such online stores as Amazon, Target announced that it is finally going to offer digital music downloads. Even bargain basement retailer KMart had music downloads before Target jumped on board, though they lost their dedicated music site in their bankruptcy a few years ago.
Target's digital music rollout begins with the first album, a Sony BMG release called Live From Philadelphia by John Legend. Target has not stated whether it will offer a [...]

Amazon today announced that its completely DRM-free catalog of MP3 downloads was expanded through the addition of Sony BMG music, which should be available to consumers by the end of the month.
With all four major music labels now on board, it looks like AmazonMP3 can now be considered a real threat to iTunes and its more limited variety of DRM-free music (over 3 million at AmazonMP3 compared to just 2 million at iTunes). “All four major labels will [...]

Well, it?s happened. Sony BMG announced it is ?finalizing plans to sell songs without copyright protection? sold via the Web.
And here we were just starting to appreciate the resistance the recording giant had thus far erected in the face of inevitable change.
Okay, actually, to be straight with you, no, we didn?t so much as give the company a passing smirk in our own coverage of its stubborn refusal to bend to consumer demand. But let?s shelve the nasty talk [...]

Yesterday, Amazon let known its establishment of a partnership between itself and the European startup SellABand. The association it will have with SellABand is simple: it will sell music released by artists developed through the independent service.
Why do we share this piece of information with you? Well, as many already know, Amazon several months ago unveiled its long-awaited music download service, appropriately named AmazonMP3. It was generally hailed by the blogosphere as welcome competition to Apple’s dominant iTunes [...]

I’ve heard continuously over the past few months of growing friction between Apple, its iTunes marketplace, and the major record companies. Yes, the one’s that have been selling their content through iTunes. And at quite a fast pace, as of late. (What is the count of tracks sold now? 3 billion? 3.5? 4? Somewhere in that area, I presume.)
And quite honestly, I’ve never really understood why they haven’t being playing very well together. I mean, sure, they’ve got their [...]

Today, BusinessWeek has reported that Universal Music Group, the largest record label in the world, is in the process of developing a digital music service that will compete with Apple's iTunes.
What seems most interesting about this news is the fact that Universal is trying to convince other major record labels to get on board. “Morris has already enlisted Sony BMG Music Entertainment as a potential partner and is talking to Warner Music Group .”
Total Music, as the service is [...]

Amazon has released a beta of its long-awaited music download service. Does it stack up to the competition? (The competition being iTunes, of course.)
I wish I could say yes. I really do. I wish it were a worthy challenger to the juggernaut that is Apple’s online music store. But alas, it isn’t. By a long shot.
I won’t lie. AmazonMP3 has a number of perks going for it. All downloads from the service are less any DRM-protection, allowing one to [...]

MX Play advertises itself as software that lets you “be your own MTV”. I hope they mean MTV in the good ol' days when they still played music videos, and not MTV now with nothing but pseudo-reality shows and game shows. The download link on the front of the site provides you with an exe file for Windows XP or greater, that only works with Internet Explorer 7 and above or FireFox 2. If, like me, you are a Mac [...]

It looks like automated audio blogging is growing increasingly popular these days. We reviewed Odiogo back in January, recently we have also talked about Talkr and when browsing podcasting apps on Simple Spark, the Web 2.0 categorized catalogue I was so impressed with on Thursday I have found another similar application named BlueGrind. This product has not been reviewed on Profy but anyway it is really a very new service (it only has a handful of already registered feeds and [...]