Tag Archives: mp3

8bitcollective Shares 8-Bit Video Game Style Tunes [Music]

If you have a place in your heart for the simple 8-bit video game tracks of yesteryear you'll definitely want to check out 8bitcollective. There you'll find thousands of 8-bit tunes from current artists who never lost their love of old-school tunes. More
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How Download Cards Connect Physical Music to its Digital Future

Sarah Collins is freelance journalist and student at Northwestern University. She also writes for Texas Monthly , A.V. Club Chicago , Chicago Parent , Venus Zine , and Punknews .
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Why I Steal Movies… Even Ones I’m In [Piracy]

Like a billion other people, I download things illegally. I'm also an actor, writer and director whose income depends on revenue from DVDs, movies and books. This leads to many conflicts in my head, in my heart, and in bars. More
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How the iPod Took the World by Storm [INFOGRAPHIC]

In the late ’90s and early aughts, MP3 players were known, well, as MP3 players. However, when Apple launched the iPod on October 21, 2001, it was such a huge success that it only took a couple of years for most people to simply start using the name “iPod” whenever they referred to an MP3 player. Apple had sold 125,000 iPods by the end of 2001; it sold a flabbergasting 225 million by 2010. Coupled with the music management/online music store one-two punch that was iTunes, the iPod turned out to be one of the most successful gadgets of all time. In the amazing infographic below, you can see the rise of the iPod and iTunes and how they’ve affected our lives over the last nine years
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Spotify Updates with iTunes Library Importing, Social Integration [Streaming Music]

Spotify, the (Europe-only, at the moment) web/desktop hybrid music manager that ranks as the best desktop music player we've ever used , just received a whole host of upgrades, including iTunes library importing, public playlist sharing, and Facebook profile management. More
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Five Best Music Discovery Services [Hive Five]

The internet is a powerful vehicle for discovering not just information, but media, too. Let's take a look at five of the most popular online tools for finding new artists, albums, and music you'll like. More
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Best Music Discovery Service? [Hive Five Call For Contenders]

Loading up your music player with tunes is one thing, streaming your collection is another, but finding new and fresh music is something else altogether. How do you use the web or other technology to find new tunes you like? More
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Songbird 1.7 Beta Adds Video Playback, Windows 7, and SD Card Support [Downloads]

Windows/Mac/Linux: Open-source, Mozilla-powered media player Songbird just released their first beta of their newest release, adding official Windows 7 support, video playback, and support for syncing to devices that use SD cards for storage. More
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Ubuntu One Music Store Open for Testing [Beta Beat]

Ubuntu: The DRM-free digital music store we previously peeked at has now opened to the public—at least the public that's using the Ubuntu 10.04 Beta . It's fairly easy to use, and automatically syncs your purchases to your free cloud storage. More
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The Complete Guide to Ripping and Converting Flash Videos [Flash]

Whether you want to save and watch a Flash video offline, convert a Flash music video for your MP3 player, or do something else entirely, learning how to rip and convert Flash videos is a useful skill. Here's how it works. More
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