The Beatles, EMI and Apple - No Reissues

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

Purple Chick’s exhaustive 10-CD “Beatles Deluxe” bootleg.
From the New York Times:
So what’s the holdup? No one is willing to say, but Mr. McCartney recently asserted that EMI was demanding an unspecified concession that the Beatles were unwilling to make.
Frankly, the reasons hardly matter at this point: to collectors awaiting these releases, either on physical [...]

iTunes tops over 5 billion songs sold

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Help me with my math! I gave a talk yesterday at U of O, as I mention in the last post, and one of my slides was about how as of March 08 iTunes had sold 170 million iPods according to Wikipedia. As of last September Apple said it had sold 2 billion songs. Apple [...]

muxtapes get coverflowed

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

In this short video tutorial you’ll see how to manage muxtapes in coverflow style using an app called fluid.
Joshk