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September 8, 2009

The Beatles: Digital Please or it Didn't Happen

Much to my wife's chagrin, I'm a Beatles man. This trait was passed down from my mother's side of the family who were avid Beatles fans. "Get Back" was one of the first songs I remember as a child, and I distinctly recall believing the words to Wings "Lie and Let Die" were "Little Wet Dime".

Surprisingly to this point, I only own a couple of Beatles records. I just never got around to buying them, and now that I never under any circumstances buy actual physical CDs, I likely never will. This is why I'm requesting the powers that be to please release the Beatles catalog in digital format. Preferably on iTunes, say...tomorrow. Please allow me to give you my money. Otherwise I may be tempted to look for the digital version elsewhere...

Pictured above: Ringo's outfit = purified awesome.

WTF is wrong with you people update:
“Conversations between Apple and EMI are ongoing and we look forward to the day when we can make the music available digitally. But it’s not tomorrow,” Ernesto Schmitt, EMI’s global catalog  president, told the FT’s Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson. [FT]

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August 5, 2009

Songbird Throws In the Towel


I've been a longtime user of Songbird, the free media player built on Mozilla technology. The player made some great strides over the past couple of years, packing in features and actually appearing to be a valid alternative to iTunes. That changed today as a blog post revealed that Songbird was open-sourcing their iPod Device Support Add-on, essentially cutting off official support for the most popular media devices in the world.

"Given our limited resources, we’ve decided to support iTunes Import/Export with our own development time, while opening the source to our iPod add-on to the community so other developers can extend and enhance it"... 
"This also means QA won’t be testing against iPods anymore so we’ll need your support to help keep us in the loop on what’s working and what’s not."

And that's pretty much that as far as Songbird becoming an iTunes-killer. And I've run out of reasons to keep it installed, which makes me sad. But I don't blame the Songbird guys. Attempting to integrate with or develop against anything Apple produces is an exercise in futility. Maybe the open-source nerds will be able to run with this thing and Songbird will thrive. One thing is for sure, iTunes isn't going anywhere. For now.

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