Archive for the 'music' Category

Engadget on MD

« 24 June 2004 | 12:02 | music, scitech, sonystyle | No Comments »

Right on – Engadget rants on the MiniDisc after the recent NYT article. Amusing, though I’d like to see some numbers regarding the LP/MD comparison.

NYT on the MiniDisc

« 18 June 2004 | 12:06 | music, scitech, sonystyle | No Comments »

NYT covers the minidisc.
No comment.

MacWorld on Express and iTunes

« 9 June 2004 | 12:52 | geekery, macnuttery, music | 4 Comments »

MacWorld on Express and iTunes. The part I found interesting:
For those wondering if AirPort Express supports MP3, AAC, or any other specific file formats, the answer is no. AirPort Express supports Apple’s Lossless Compression technology — and everything that your iTunes streams across the network to Airport Express is compressed using that technology.

Candy Apples

« 8 June 2004 | 10:55 | geekery, macnuttery, music | No Comments »

Apple is on roll, and there’s no stopping in sight. Egad!
The Express requires Apple’s basestation if you want to use it as a repeater, but a wireless repeater for a fraction of the cost of what’s on the market now? Almost too good to be true; I think it’s time to retrofit the [...]

Connect

« 7 June 2004 | 12:06 | music, sonystyle | No Comments »

Connect “…falls far from Apple’s iTunes.”
Maybe no news is good news in this space.

Rocker says iTunes rocks

« 3 June 2004 | 1:45 | biznomics, macnuttery, media, music | No Comments »

PBS Frontline has an interesting interview with music legend David Crosby. Choice quote:
I think the only way to sell records that I know about now that does look really, really, really promising is iTunes. I think Apple is the smartest company in the country, and they are doing something brilliant.

iPod competitors

« 1 June 2004 | 11:19 | Japan, biznomics, music, salaryman, sonystyle, worklife | No Comments »

Actually, this should read “Microsoft, Sonys Announce iPod Competitors”. It’s almost humorous how analogous Sony is to Cerberus.

Phish to quit

« 27 May 2004 | 12:00 | America, media, music | No Comments »

Nooooooo!
Phish is calling it quits after this summer. Boo hoo :(

No more rise, just a fall

« 25 May 2004 | 18:12 | biznomics, media, music, scitech, sonystyle | No Comments »

It’s been making the rounds, and finally hit Gizmodo – this article on how Sony cemented the iPod’s supremacy.
The author – Jeremy Horwitz – apparently wrote a popular book on law school. Hmm…hmm indeedy. Been on my mind for a few months now.

music downloads

« 24 May 2004 | 12:47 | biznomics, music | No Comments »

First Walmart, then Coca-Cola.
Now Oxfam. Anybody else?
Although the tipping point – of when the number of tracks owned by 3rd parties is greater than the number owned by Big Record Label (C) – may not come for some time, this is as good a sign as any that we’ll be singing “nah nah nah-nah, [...]