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According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation Microsoft’s so called “iPod Killer” is turning out to be rather suicidal:

Microsoft’s Zune will not play protected Windows Media Audio and Video purchased or “rented” from Napster 2.0, Rhapsody, Yahoo! Unlimited, Movielink, Cinemanow, or any other online media service. That’s right—the media that Microsoft promised would Play For Sure™ [...]

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A quick look at my last.fm profile shows that after listening to almost 10,000 tracks gives my top 20 artists as below. This seems quite reasonable, and reflects the overall mix of music I listen to, although it is not track-length weighted. Moby albums tend to have more tracks that say, The Orb, which obviously [...]

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One big problem with the current trend of device convergence is that if that one device fails, then so do all of your devices! This means that device failure has a bigger impact, and this impact will increase with the number of functions the device replaces.

Two examples of this. Firstly, I use my phone [...]

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Seeing an advert for Leftfield’s greatest hits album made me go back and listen to their first two albums, the phenomenal debut album “Leftism” and the not-quite-so-good-but-still-great-follow-up “Rhythm and Stealth”.

Leftism is a fantastic album, but, to me anyway, has no real stand out tracks. I would rate every track on the album 8 or 9 [...]

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Buying music from the iTunes store, or napster, or anywhere else for that matter is not ‘there’ yet, for me at least. I’m not sure where exactly ‘there’ is, but what online music stores don’t have is a tangible product, that can be unwrapped, the CD box taken out of it’s decorative sleeve, and the [...]

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