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Spotify: Pure music-streaming win

Crave In order to save bandwidth, a streamed song is downloaded to your computer in a cache. We found that a search for music returns results in a flash and there's virtually no wait once you click a song before it plays.

Tags: wait, account, clicking, listen

4 December 2008, 11:38

Amazon UK MP3 store: Cheap and DRM-free

Crave You only get one download per song, however, so if your hard drive fails, don't expect to be able to log into Amazon to re-download your purchases.digital and eMusic both offer redownloading of purchased songs.

Tags: itunes, labels, songs, amazon

3 December 2008, 11:42

When two become one: A torch/map combo

Crave Boston-based designer Owen Song has come up with just such a contraption. You're lost in the woods and it's getting darker. Wouldn't it be nice if the two items most essential to you finding your way out before night falls (not counting a GPS unit...

Tags: map, device, leds, torch

3 December 2008, 9:31

Q&A: Is Nokia Comes With Music a good deal?

Crave Our understanding is that if you Bluetooth a song to another CWM user, they will only be able to activate and listen to the track once they sync their phone with their PC. This only applies to the 5310, as the Nokia N95 8GB and 5800 will offer song...

Tags: nokia, downloading, listen, pcs

3 October 2008, 12:28

Nokia expected to launch Comes With Music today

Crave The Guardian's Helienne Lindvall has reported a frankly pathetic 120-song limit. Crave is expecting Nokia to unveil its Comes With Music service to the world later today, launching on a Nokia 5310 XpressMusic handset, and possibly on the N95 8GB, too.

Tags: nokia, handset, oxford english dictionary, music service

2 October 2008, 10:49

Living the D:Ream: Let's rename the Large Hadron Collider

Crave D:Ream's greatest hit, a song adopted by Tony Blair's Labour Party in its landslide election victory of 1997, was Things Can Only Get Better. There are people who believe that this song served as the final psychological push towards Dr Cox's deep...

Tags: greatest, physics, machine, man

29 September 2008, 9:33

Hands-on with iTunes 8 Genius: Einstein with dementia?

Crave We started off our test with Adenosine Buildup by Blotted Science -- an extremely complex experimental metal song, full of changing time signatures, unpredictable tempo changes and an erratic song structure.

10 September 2008, 11:53

Photos: Hands-on with the new Apple iPod nano

Crave As in iTunes 8, the Genius feature on the new nano automatically creates playlists of music most compatible with any given song on the iPod. Apple's new iPod nano is the thinnest iPod to date -- because we know how much Apple loves to be thin...

9 September 2008, 19:49

New Zunes: Buying songs from radio and more

Crave We just finished getting our hands on the new Zune players and trying out their new software features, which let you do things like buy a song off the radio and download tunes directly from the device via the Internet.

Tags: song, stations, zune, fi

9 September 2008, 10:44

Apple's September event: Definitive rumour round-up

Crave Unabbreviated, 'Let us rock' hints at something involving more than just one iPod owner -- perhaps song sharing over Wi-Fi? It's the birth day of Hugh Grant, Michael Bublé and Crave J-Pop favourite Ai Otsuka.

4 September 2008, 12:02

Bono's (RED) charity to launch online music service

Crave It's structured like a newsletter: each week, members will get an email with two MP3s -- one an exclusive song from a well-known act and the other from an emerging artist -- as well as a 'Crackerjack surprise' (say, a video) and an update on how...

Tags: artists, initiative, africa, bono

30 June 2008, 16:24

Men in Black on Blu-ray: Woohoo! Haha!

Crave The best extra is of course Will Smith's swearing-free music video of the title song. Crave officially loves Will Smith. Our MP3 man Nate Lanxon loves him so much he actually claims to have previously been him.

Tags: disc, ray, blu, blu ray

13 June 2008, 11:12

Crave Live: Apple rolls out iPhone 3G in 70 countries

Crave While we're definitely in support of worldwide harmonisation, we'd like to apologise if you now have a certain song stuck in your head. What do Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan...

9 June 2008, 20:06

Philips DVDR5520H: Records TV, performs miracles

Crave Once you fill up the hard drive with Songs of Praise, you can burn them to DVD, but you'll probably not want to make a big song and dance about that, or the copyright police will be round to perform a full-body cavity search and take all your money.

Tags: philips, hard drive, air, watching

13 May 2008, 11:26

Audio Technica CK10 earphones: The drivers of your life

Crave No, it's not commissioned the beheading of pop's greatest wrong-doing since Dale Winton provided the vocals for the Supermarket Sweep pop song (yes, there was one. Two drivers in each earphone have always offered a powerfully seductive sound...

Tags: audio technica, pop, drivers, ve heard

8 May 2008, 9:36