Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
[Yes, this is a picture of Jessica Simpson. What’s worse is that in the post that follows, I may try to convince you to shell out two bucks for a track of hers.]
Y! Music is offering a DRM-free MP3 for sale. DRM-free. Yes, I know Allofmp3 and eMusic have been doing this for ages, but [...]
Music swapping through the mail: La la Media plans to set up a platform where users pay $1.49 to swap compact discs with each other (a buck goes to La la Media and the rest covers shipping). Expect to hear from RIAA’s lawyers soon. Michael Arrington has a bit more. [via]
Rundfunker, the WLAN radio: scans [...]
Y! Music vs. Pandora vs. Last.fm vs.Soundflavor: obviously a bit biased since it’s written by the director of personalization for Yahoo! Music, but still a good wrap-up of what each of these services has to offer. What Yahoo! has got going for it is the huge amount of listener preference ratings they’ve collected over the [...]
Google an artist/album/track, and a link comes up at the top pointing to the “More music results” page (example), with the artists, albums and tracks that match your query (example).
Clicking on an “artist” results takes you to the artist’s page, lists his/her albums and related info (example); clicking on an album page gets you the [...]