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Music biz goes global

by Simon Aughton on 24 January 2011 in News
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The music biz has decided to implement a new, global system for licensing digital music, to make it easier for new services to start up.

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Pure downloads on the radio

by Simon Aughton on 12 August 2010 in News
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Radio maker Pure has launched a new service that lets listeners buy any song that they hear on any radio station.

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Has digitising music actually devalued it?

by Hollin Jones on 18 June 2010 in Audio

Apple’s digital music ventures have had their upsides, but there have also been a few downsides for musicians. I’ve ruminated on Apple’s domination of the pro audio world before, and that’s something I don’t see changing any time soon. As I’ve also observed before now, Apple has found huge success in broadening its customer base [...]

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Music pros desperately seeking power trip

by Hollin Jones on 18 May 2010 in Audio

Audio professionals need serious processing grunt, so Apple’s tardiness in bringing out the next-generation Mac Pros is going down like a lead balloon. Musicians were among the first professionals to embrace the Mac platform almost from its creation. After basic graphics and PostScript capabilities, Midi was the other major technology that quickly came to define [...]

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