music

TuneChecker and I Love Stars


Posted by Ian on 31 Dec 2009 / 4 Comments


Legally downloading music has started to take off as more buying choices become available. At one point iTunes was the only buying option but there are now many places that sell digital music. TuneChecker is a great website that shows you where to buy music online at the cheapest price and the potential savings are [...]

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Spotify Launches Offline Mode


Posted by Ian on 01 Oct 2009 / 0 Comment


Spotify launched a new feature today to it’s desktop client – Offline Mode. Premium users selecting a playlist will now have the ability to click an ‘Available offline’ button which will download the tracks locally for playback when not connected to the internet. I tried the service this afternoon and the results can be seen [...]

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Spotify iPhone App


Posted by Ian on 07 Sep 2009 / 5 Comments


Today was the day that Spotify finally landed on the iPhone. Many thought that when Spotify announced they had submitted an app to Apple that they had no chance of getting it approved. The many were wrong. I fired up the Appstore this morning, saw the app and thought I need to try this. So [...]

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X Lossless Decoder


Posted by Ian on 05 Jul 2009 / 0 Comment


I’ve struggled for a while to find a decent lossless converter and ripper for the Mac – X Lossless Decoder (XLD) is finally an answer for those issues. This is a free app that has a very simple front end that will allow conversion from and to: (Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.ogg) Monkey’s Audio (.ape) Wavpack (.wv) [...]

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