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The new SanDisk Sansa Connect in my estimation is the most interesting and significant evolution in the portable music player market since.well. the introduction of the iPod. Why? Because unlike the handicapped Zune it manages to integrate next gen thinking into a tight product form and apparently does it very well.
The new Sansa Connect integrates […]

You can’t have escaped the widespread media coverage of EMI’s decision to make their entire catalogue available via iTunes and other retailers free of DRM. If you have been living under a rock DRM limits what you can do with music that you have purchased from legit sources. Apple limits the number of times you […]

Given all the ongoing angst and gnashing of teeth surrounding music piracy, illegal downloading and the threat that allofmp3.com apparently poses to the free world - it is nice to find legit ways of getting music for free.
At Wise Buddha Towers we are big fans of music podcasts as a way of sampling new music […]

It is rare for Apple Commander in Chief Steve Jobs to comment publically on fundamantal business issues but in a post today on the Apple site he goes into considerable detail about Apple’s position on DRM.
According to Jobs Apple would drop their DRM in a ‘heartbeat’ and explains why. This is genuinally compelling stuff and […]

As you will know music is one of the main currencies of Web 2.0 and there are lots of start -up’s emerging in this space with some very interesting business models. I’m a long time user of emusic for when I’m feeling legit (which is often as I have a monthly subscription) and allofmp3 when […]

the news isn’t all that rosy!
Some interesting data about digital music sales in 2006 to round off recent posts about iTunes lacklustre performance. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) have announced that Global digital music sales in 2006 almost doubled to around US$2bn and said digital sales could account for a quarter of […]

Oh dear it would seem that the world might not be ready for Brown Zune players, clunky software, DRM that ties your music in knots and the prospect of ’squirting’ tracks to other Zune players.
Despite Microsoft’s assertion that everything is on track for a million units sold the jury is in and well the reviews […]

So the results are in and the vast majority of people are saying nice try Microsoft but the Zune aint no iPod killer. There are a few too many software glitch’s, probs with the Zune store and well it just isn’t as sleek.
But it appears Apple are taking Zune very seriously particularly as some much […]