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Music
BlueBeat’s Innovative Defence That Will Never Hold Up In Court
8:30AM Chris Jacob | Hank Risan was ordered to pull The Beatles’ catalogue from the BlueBeat website this week, but those weren’t the actual recordings. The tracks were “psycho-acoustic simulations” of the songs. Too bad that defence will never hold up in court. More »
Music
The Beatles’ Catalogue Now On Limited Edition USB Stick
11:55PM Danny Allen | It’s not iTunes, but Apple Corps and EMI are finally offering a legit way to grab digital Beatles tracks. This Apple-shaped stick has FLAC and MP3 versions of the new CD set: all of the band’s music re-mastered in stereo. More »
Music
All 12 Beatles Albums Newly Remastered, MP3 Distribution Coming Soon?
2:59AM Adrian Covert | Beatles fans and audiophiles alike should be excited that the Liverpool quartet’s entire 12-album catalogue will be live and remastered in stere-eree-o on September 9—yes, 9.9.09—the same day that “The Beatles: Rock Band” comes out.
Entertainment
Apple and EMI Roll Out iTunes Pass Mini-Subscription For…Depeche Mode?
2:30AM John Mahoney | The iTunes Pass is a baby-step toward the fabled iTunes all-you-can eat subscription: plonk down $US18.99 to download everything new (including a new album) by a single artist for a limited time. But, Depeche Mode?
Gadgets
First Stereo Sound Recordings Digitally Restored For the First Time
6:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Sound engineers have digitally restored some of the earliest recordings of stereo sound by the technology’s inventor, Alan Blumlein. Blumlein, a research engineer at EMI, had lodged a patent for “binaural” sound in 1931 and made several experimental recordings to see if they could sell it to the fledgling film and audio industry. In 1934, EMI decided that nobody really needed surround sound and shelved all projects related to it. File that under late great historical oopses. More »
Press
XM and EMI Settle Portable Recording Radio Lawsuit
8:28PM Gizmodo US Edition | XM Satellite Radio and EMI Music have settled the lawsuit over the recording of digital songs by XM users. Nobody knows the terms of the deal, but it probably involves virgins and kittens’ blood. [Reuters] More »
Entertainment
Space Aliens First to Get DRM-Free Beatles Music?
1:57AM Wilson Rothman | You may have heard that at 7pm EST on Feb. 4, NASA plans to blast The Beatles’ song “Across the Universe” into deep space in order to serenade otherworldly beings hundreds, thousands or millions of light years away with our very best pop music. I have several problems with this. More »
Entertainment
Amazon MP3 Service Going Global; Epic iTunes Battle on the Horizon
11:15PM Haroon Malik | Amazon’s digital music catalogue is all set to go global, and although a launch date has not yet been settled, it shall hit sometime this year. Given Amazon MP3 offers DRM-free tracks, which are generally cheaper than iTunes limited, equivalent offerings, we cannot help but think an epic battle between the big As is all set to take off. More »
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