Tag Archives: mp3

Link: eMusic CEO Explains Controversial Price Increase, Sony Deal

Wired interviews eMusic CEO Danny Stein about their recent price increases and the addition of Sony’s back catalog.

Wired.com: What do you have to say to longtime subscribers who are so upset about prices going up?

Stein: We knew it was going to be tough breaking the news about the price increase, so we’ve been listening to [...]

Link: Sony Adding All Songs Over Two Years Old To EMusic; EMusic Raising Prices [Cheap Music]

Sony is coming to eMusic, and eMusic will raise prices.

This is the first I’m reading about the price increase. I haven’t received an email about my plan changing – I’m on an annual plan so I’m not sure they can do much until I resubscribe in the fall.

Today eMusic will announce that Sony is [...]

Mixing for MP3 Is Stupid

In my opinion.

Once in a while I’ll read something about mixing engineers and how they create different mixes for CDs and digital music services. The arguments are that encodes don’t recreate certain frequencies well, like anything below 100hz. So because of that they may suggest boosting the low-end on anything that will be used for [...]

Lovin’ The Amazon MP3 Store: Deals, Tweets, and User Feedback

Want to get some really good deals on music? Make sure you follow AmazonMP3 on Twitter.

If you’re a music lover then you don’t want to miss Amazon’s Daily Deals. It’s a great way to discover and purchase music with a low risk. At prices as low as 99¢ an album you’re likely to buy stuff [...]

Lovin’ The Amazon MP3 Store: The AAC/MP3 Fidelity Argument

I’ve been getting upset that AAC hasn’t gotten as much support as MP3, but the more I think about it the more I realize that MP3 is the smarter choices for these stores. I prefer AAC, but MP3 has wider compatibility and has much larger recognition behind it. MP3 is synonymous with digital music.

The other [...]

The iTunes “Last Chance” Playlist

If you’ve read the iTunes Zero article you’ll know that I’m very meticulous about everything in my iTunes library – and chances are you probably do the same things.

One of the other problems you may be facing is that there’s SO MUCH STUFF in your iTunes library. How do you handle it all?

Here’s what works [...]