Hazards of DRM on Music (or video, or any other media)
Mark Pilgrim, in The Day the Music Died, points out what happens when DRM meets market failure. On August 31, Microsoft will turn off the servers that validate their “PlaysForSure” DRM system (this...
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Explicitly Tainted Tracks
I’m listening to The Bird and the Bee right now. Every single track on the album is labeled as [Explicit] because of the song called “F——ing Boyfriend,” even though that’s the only song that actually...
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iTunes 10 has shed the CD imagery in its new icon. And yet a floppy disk is still the universal toolbar image for “save.” The post Iconic Imagery appeared first on K-Squared Ramblings.
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Trouble: Moving Your iTunes Library from Mac to Windows
I finally got around to transferring our music library from an old Macintosh (so old it’s a PowerPC) to our new Windows 8.1 system. It worked, but it wasn’t quite as smooth — or as automatic — as I’d...
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I’m Going to Miss the iPod Click Wheel
As I moved our iTunes library last week, I worried that the new system might not be able to sync with the old iPod, but relaxed when I saw that Apple still sold the click-wheel iPod Classic. They...
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