April 29, 2004
All I Ever Wanted To Do
Posted by nerdling | April 29, 2004 10:32 AM
The RIAA sues 477 more people! This round is primarily bringing charges against college students in the East and Midwest, and taking the total number of suits up to 2,454 since last summer. Oh, how I love the vultures at the RIAA!
Happy Birthday, iTunes! On the anniversary of the iTunes Music Store's first year of operation, sales are still strong and the catalog keeps growing. Further, there is good news for you audiophiles: Apple is negotiating the rights to digitize and release out-of-print albums on iTunes.
Jobs also noted Apple is working with labels to digitize out-of-print music and sell it in the iTunes store. On Wednesday, 45 singles and 45 albums from the Motown archive became available.
"Those (out-of-print) songs can now be monetized and preserved as part of the cultural record," McGuire said. "That's huge."
One of these days I'm going to give in and buy myself a swank little iPod, but not until the rechargable-but-not-removable battery issue is resolved in the upcoming models. Aside from that, if I'm spending that kind of money for a digital music player it's going to have to be at least a 40GB model so I can transfer as much of my CD collection over as possible. Perhaps someday I will be able to have my ultimate fantasy: a pink, 40GB iPod Mini.
*drool*
I haven't lusted over a piece of hardware like this since the introduction of the Titanium PowerBook. Mmmmmm. PowerBook.
