Here’s a fun meme that’s travelling round Facebook at the moment: The rules – Make an album cover out of sheer internet randomness! Show me your creative side! 1 – click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 2 – click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page is the title of your first album. 3 – click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. Please only use images that are licensed under Creative Commons. 4 – use Photoshop [...]
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Smart playlists
I wanted to follow up my post on the recent developments at itunes with something on the wonderful things you can do to find new ways of grouping and listening to your music collection. This is a revamped version of a post I wrote a while ago for another blog. Making playlists is easy right? Well I don’t know about you but I always seem to end up listening to the same old things when creating playlists the old fashioned way i.e. dragging and dropping songs from your library into a new list. So recently I’ve been looking for new [...]
The end of DRM on iTunes
This week Apple announced that by the end of the first quarter of 2009 all music available to download from the iTunes store will be DRM (Digital Rights Management) free. Essentially this means that once you have downloaded a track you can store and play it on any compatible device. The new format is known as iTunes Plus. The introduction of this new format for the whole iTunes catalogue comes with the news that single tracks will no longer be sold at the standard price of £0.79. Pricing will now be variable with singles priced at either £0.59, £0.79 or [...]
