Digital Music

Apple and T-Mobile Partner For iPhone in Germany

Sep 19th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

Apple and T-Mobile today announced that T-Mobile will be the exclusive carrier of the iPhone when it makes its debut in Germany on November 9. The iPhone is scheduled to go on sale on November 9 and will be sold in Germany through Telekom Shops of Deutsche Telekom and the T-Mobile web shop. The phone […]



SpiralFrog Offers DRM-Laden Tracks Incompatible With Most People’s Portable Media Players

Sep 17th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

Troubled free music site SpiralFrog made its debut today, after months of delays and management changes. The site, which lets visitors download music and videos free of charge, hopes to find success with a business model based on offering DRM’d music to users via an ad-supported site. “We believe it will be a very powerful […]



Numark Shipping iDJ2 iPod DJ Workstation

Sep 12th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music, iPod Accessories, Podcasting Hardware

Numark has announced that it‚Äôs shipping the first iPod DJ mixing console that lets you scratch, control pitch, key-lock, and simultaneously play two songs from a single iPod. If you’re interested in recording dj mixes or music shows, you can even use the iDJ to record back to your iPod. The Numark iDJ2 features an […]



Why Is Apple Crippling The iPod touch?

Sep 10th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music, iPods & Portable Media Players

Gizmodo has picked up the question we raised last week, wondering “Why Apple is crippling the iPod touch?” They note that “Apple has removed the ability to add events in the iPod touch’s calendar, even while it uses the same operating system and application frameworks as the iPhone.” We’re wondering, if the iPod touch is […]



Music Industry Bets Its Future On The Past

Sep 10th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music

The music industry has introduced a new music format that’s a twist on the singles of the past – the ringle. The ringle, the brainchild of Sony BMG, combines three tracks – a new track, a remix and a old track – on a slip-sleeved CD. The CD also comes with a code that can […]



NexTune Launches Music Network With Free Music Program Software

Sep 7th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music, iPods & Portable Media Players

NexTune today announced the launch of the NexTune Music Network, along with software allowing an iTunes user to publish playlists onto its Internet-based music network. The service lets you take your iTunes playlist and use it in a social network to discover new music and to create playlists that others can use. NexTune’s latest software […]



Apple Announces Wi-Fi Collaboration With Starbucks

Sep 5th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music

Apple and Starbucks today announced a partnership that lets customers wirelessly browse, search for, preview, buy and download music from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at Starbucks onto their iPod touch, iPhone or PC or Mac running iTunes while at a participating location. When you go to a participating Starbucks, your Apple device should automatically […]



iTunes Store Goes Wi-Fi, Adds Ringtone Option

Sep 5th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

Apple today unveiled the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, giving users the ability to browse, search, preview, purchase and download songs and albums from the iTunes Music Store over a Wi-Fi network directly onto their iPod touch or iPhone. While more useful Wi-Fi features were a key part of what we expected Apple to introduce today, […]



Apple Intros iPod touch – The iPhone Without The Phone

Sep 5th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

Apple today introduced the new iPod touch, featuring Apple‚Äôs revolutionary multi-touch user interface. Highlights First introduced on iPhone, the multi-touch interface uses pioneering new software to present a different user interface for each application. The iPod touch also includes Wi-Fi wireless networking, the first on any iPod, and three applications that use it: Safari lets […]



Apple’s New iPod Lineup

Sep 5th, 2007 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Digital Music, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players, Video Podcasts

Apple CEO Steve Jobs today announced Apple’s new lineup of iPods at an event at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Here are the highlights: The iPod shuffle appears to be on life-support. It got new colors. The iPod nano got a bigger screen, video capabilities and an interface update. Big iPods are now iPod classics, getting […]