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Spotify signs deal with Telia

Dennis Bjørn Petersen — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:01:09 +0000

The European based online music service Spotify has just signed a deal with Telia in Sweden. Telia is Sweden’s largest ISP and mobile carrier with branches in the Nordic and Baltic countries and in Russia, Spain and Turkey.

The deal expands Spotify’s potential even more. At first customers in Sweden will benefit from the music streaming, but that will probably hopefully change very soon.

From the official announcement:

Telia will start selling Spotify Premium service to their mobile and broadband customers and we hope to work with them on some amazing new initiatives in the near future. Telia is Sweden’s largest ISP and mobile carrier and great match for us, this is a big step towards being able to offer Swedish homes the very best in digital entertainment services.

Spotify is currently available in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, France and Spain.

Ripping all that vinyl to MP3 the easy way

Steven Hodson — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:41:09 +0000

At one time I had a hell of a record collections that came from years of haunting import and specialty record stores. Everything from colored vinyl records (I had one of the few white vinyl albums by Synergy) to music that was unheard of on this side of the ocean (that was my introduction to European House); but that is all gone now thanks to ex-wife number one. It is too bad that when this all happened computers and MP3 didn’t even exist let alone the Denon Trans Music Convertor.

If it had been available back the I would still have all that great music as this bad-boy turntable comes equipped with an integrated MP3 encoder and a USB port. With a single press of a button the turntable takes over and encodes the album playing into a 192kbps MP3 file as well as adding the song’s metadata from Gracenote.

At a price of $292.54 USD (£199.99) it might seem a little steep but if you have a really big collection of vinyl gathering dust it might just be worth it to be able to bring your favorite tunes into the present.

[hat tip to SlipperyBrick]

TrueAnthem Tunes In $2 Million

JR — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:54:17 +0000

Internet-based music label TrueAnthem has raised $2 million in new funding. TrueAnthem — only in its fourth month of existence — focuses on delivering artists’ music at no cost through its own TrueWidget platform. The widget is placed on the artists’ social network pages and made available for users to pull over to their own pages as well.

It’s an interesting concept in the day of closely guarded rights and constantly monitored filesharing: In addition to letting you stream an artist’s music, TrueAnthem offers you the option to download individual tracks or complete albums for free. The free versions come with a brief embedded ad at the top — or, if you want to pay the standard 99 cents per song rate, you can get the tracks ad-free.

TrueAnthem has about 5,000 active widgets around the Web right now. Bands on its roster include acts such as Nine Inch Nails, Hootie and the Blowfish, and Ryan Huston. The company, based in San Francisco, says it’s seen a 500 percent increase in usage since its April launch.

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Borders Launches Audiobook MP3 Store With Free Offering

JR — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:00:22 +0000

Borders is now offering DRM-fee audiobook MP3s on its recently relaunched web site.

About 15,000 selections are available so far — some as cheap as $7, others as expensive as $35. They’re also available in WMA format.

The noteworthy part, though, is that you can get the full audiobook of Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild for free if you download it before the end of Saturday. You do have to sign up for an account, but there’s no fee and doesn’t appear to be any real catch to it. As of now, however, the service is limited to PCs only.

Napster Launches New DRM-Free Store

JR — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:15:06 +0000

Napster now boasts what it calls the “world’s largest and most comprehensive MP3 store” anywhere.

The online music seller has just launched its new DRM-free MP3 database, meaning the songs will be compatible with most any software, phone, or playing device.

“Music fans have spoken and it’s clear they need the convenience, ease of use and broad interoperability of the DRM-free MP3 format, and they want to be able to find both major label artists and independent music all in one place,” said Napster Chairman and CEO Chris Gorog.

Napster says its new store is more than one-and-a-half times the size of any other online retailer, with more than six million tracks up for grabs. Songs are available for $.99 a piece or about $10 for an entire album.

Viruses Hit Mozilla, MP3s

JR — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:38:47 +0000

Right now, virus-related problems are spreading like… well, viruses.

First up, Mozilla is admitting it made a major mistake. The Firefox developers sent out a warning today that one of the browser’s language plug-ins is infected with malicious code. The Vietnamese language pack has been found to contain the adware as a result of a virus that may have been on the developer’s network, unbeknownst to him.

“This code is the result of a virus infection, but does not contain the virus itself,” explained Mozilla Security Chief William Snyder.

“This usually results in the user seeing unwanted ads, but may be used for more malicious actions,” he added.

The bug is believed to be from the Xorer Trojan. Mozilla says it did conduct an initial scan of the program but did not catch the issue until now.

“We are also adding after-the-fact scans of everything to address this sort of case in the future,” Snyder said.

At the same time, McAfee is cautioning that it’s seen an increase in fake MP3 files being used to carry dangerous code. A security expert with the company claims 360,000 users have had problems in the past days. You can find a list of the problematic filenames to avoid on the McAfee Labs Blog.

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