I’d never heard of Guvera before Gus’ story on Lifehacker yesterday. Launching on March 30, it’s a music download store which offers free MP3s from EMI and Universal music. The catch? You’ll need to look at advertising.
Those crazy cats at OK Go are tugging at our heartstrings yet again, with the release of a brand new video for the song This Too Shall Pass. It takes the Rube Goldberg machine concept to another level completely.
Six years ago, David Cope destroyed one of the world’s most talented composers. Her name was Emmy, and she’d written thousands of musical scores that were indistinguishable from classics by Mozart. But Emmy’s younger, brighter daughter named Emily lives on.
How long have we been lamenting data caps with Australian Broadband? While we constantly read about the US complaining that they might have to start dealing with data caps, we sit here wishing for a world where data caps are a thing of the past. Well, yesterday AAPT took a step in that direction by offering an ADSL2+ bundle with unlimited data for $100 a month.
Paul McCartney’s doomsday scenario: Someone, somewhere, somehow manages to leak the Beatles’ music onto the internet, where it will be stolen by everyone, all the time. This must be prevented! Notice a problem there? Yeah, it gets worse.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
