Radiohead's 10 videos From the Basement

June 25, 2008   1 Comments
Radiohead, or perhaps just their label, has added 10 Live Music Videos from their 'In Rainbows' album. The live spontaneous music videos were a part of Nigel Goldrich's From the Basement series of TV shows. Performing live this collection captures the unique band that Radiohead is and how they perform live.

Music Video Tracks include:

• Bodysnatchers
• House of Cards
• Nude
• Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
• 15 Step
• Reckoner
• Go Slowly
• Videotape
• Bangers & Mash
• All I Need

The original In Rainbows album is available for purchase through iTunes Plus for $7.99. The Music Video track from 'From the Basement' are $0.99 each.

Labels: iTunes Plus, iTunes Store, Music Videos, TV Shows

iTunes 7.5 ::Coming Soon::

November 2, 2007   0 Comments
All signs are pointing to another iTunes release in the next couple of weeks. iTunes 7.5 will be released to increase stability, introduce better duplicate management and report states. Other fixes include problems some users have had with iTunes Plus, the DRM free tracks, and support for UK/German iPhones debuting this month.

The duplicate management is something most of us have been waiting for since iTunes 1.0 was originally released. Currently iTunes only utilizes two fields (artist & track name) to identify duplicate songs, which means all your live albums and studio albums by the same artist gets tagged. Simply adding an additional field, such as album name would help with this immensely.

Hopefully this release will fix some of the video issues that some readers have been encountering as well.

Labels: iTunes, iTunes Plus

iTunes Plus moving to 99¢ tracks

October 16, 2007   0 Comments
Earlier this week several the iTunes Plus track from independent labels have appeared at a 99¢ price point, 30¢ lower then the standard. Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO has informed the Wall Street Journal that this was the begining of a pricing transition, to have all iTunes Plus tracks available for the standard 99¢ price tag found in the regular store. There has been much speculation that the new prices are a result of offerings from Amazon and Wal-Mart.

EMI was the first major label to sign on to iTunes Plus, offering the majority of their collection in both DRM and No-DRM flavors. The Plus tracks also featured a higher bit rate, so audiofiles could justify the extra 30¢ being spent for the DRM-Free tracks. Its refreshing to see that most iTunes tracks will be available at a common price tag.

Labels: DRM, iTunes Plus, iTunes Store

99¢ iTunesPlus Tracks

October 15, 2007   0 Comments
Some readers have pointed out that there are a few 99¢ iTunes Plus tracks available in the iTunes Store. This is 30¢ cheaper then the standard $1.29 price point for DRM-Free iTunes Tracks.

We browsed through some of the iTunes Plus selection and found many tracks now available at 99¢. These all seem to be related to SubPop, Nettwerk and other independent record labels. Nettwerk represents Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLachlan both which has 99¢ tracks now. Subpop represents a wide variety of mostly alternative-independent artists, most notably Postal Service and Band of Horses.

In our brief search we found Band of Horses: Cease to Begin, ChillOut: a Nettwerk Escape, Iron & Wine, and Herschell Gordon Lewis all at the new price. MacDailyNews is also reporting that Flight of the Conchords and The Perishers are also at the same price tag.

So it appears that this may be limited to specific tracks, specific artists and specific record labels, we hope to see more DRM tracks appearing at the 99¢ price point. We applaud SubPop and Nettwerk for their contributions to this effort.

Labels: iTunes Plus, iTunes Store

iTunes collects all four Beatles

October 9, 2007   0 Comments
This morning iTunes rounded out their collection of Beatle solo artists with George Harrison's catalog of albums. Dubbed the 'quite one', Harrison had the most extensive collection of unreleased songs when the Beatles split. What you won't find in this collection however is any songs Harrison wrote and recorded with the rest of the Fab Four, but what you will find is that these tracks are available in Non-DRM goodness of iTunes Plus.

• All Things Must Pass
• Brainwashed
• Living in a Materail World
• Live in Japan
• Gone Troppo
• George Harrison
• Somewhere in England
• Thirty Three and 1/3
• Cloud Nine

With Harrison's Music available through the iTunes Store, this means that they now offer tracks and albums from all four Beatles, McCartney, Starr, Lennon and now Harrison. It seems all the more likely that we will have Beetles in the iTunes Store sooner then later.

While iTunes and Apple (Music) continue to discuss getting Beatles music in to the iTunes store, they are both loosing out on potential sales. Your traditional Brick and Mortar stores are dying off faster then the dinosaurs, and fans of the music are looking towards peer-to-peer and torrent networks to enjoy their music. In a recent torrent search, over 410 hits appeared for "Beatles". This represents thousands of individuals sharing their music, and millions of dollars in lost revenue. With these figures, its curious to how the record companies can argue about their cut of iTunes Music sales, while the continue to loose revenue due to music piracy daily.

Labels: Beatles, iTunes Plus, iTunes Store

iTunes 7.2 is here... with iTunes Plus

May 29, 2007   0 Comments
Version 7.2 is out and available through your system update and as a download from the Apple iTunes Website as well. The big addition to this update is iTunes Plus.

With iTunes 7.2, preview and purchase iTunes Plus music—new higher-quality, DRM-free music downloads from participating music labels. These are similar to the EMI DRM-Free music previously available at $1.29.

Other then these tracks there is no DRM-Free music in iTunes, and can expect the full launch to take place later. Sources point to Wednesday as the day.

Digging a little deeper the help menu provides a little more information about upgrading your previously purchased tracks. This is great for those people that spent bank on there iTunes music and swapped to another player later on.

Labels: DRM, iTunes, iTunes Plus, iTunes Store, Software Update