albums

What's lossless audio and do I need it?

Digital Living A process is used when music is compressed into MP3 to discard all the sounds a machine thinks the human ear can't audibly perceive, thus vastly reducing the amount of storage needed to hold entire albums.

18 July 2007, 11:55

Sony PSP: Accessorise This

Digital Living While we doubt many people will listen to music on the go with their PSP, whatever Sony says, this size of stick will allow you breathing space for a few albums. The Sony PSP is an utterly cool gadget by itself, but as any fashionista will tell you...

6 September 2005, 7:45

What's DRM and should I avoid it?

Digital Living Even though digital albums cost as much as a CD from the shops, you're given only a tiny portion of the freedom with that purchase. I want to start buying my music from online download stores, but I've been told to avoid sites that use DRM.

20 June 2007, 10:49

Is Prince the prototype?

Digital Living Otherwise, the store's a lot like the general online music stores, charging 99 cents for singles and $9.99 for albums. When he died in 1991, genius Miles Davis was convinced that the best hope for the future of music rested in the diminutive hands...

Tags: stores, fans, digital music, deal

9 May 2005, 14:48

Which MP3 bit rate should I use?

Digital Living Consider this bit rate if you own a player with 4GB of memory or above, or if you only carry a few albums with you at any one time. I want to use MP3s on a music player but I have no idea which bit rate to use.

16 May 2007, 14:24

Which UK music download store is the best?

Digital Living You may not expect it, but Tesco's online download store is surprisingly comprehensive and offers albums for £7.99. I'm trying to decide which MP3 player to buy based on which online music store is going to work best for me.

2 May 2007, 16:12

Consumers frustrated by online music catalogues

Digital Living This is not necessarily the labels' fault, as much as online fans like to demonise them; often, the artist or band in question bars the label from releasing their tracks digitally, either because they don't want their albums broken up into tracks...

16 June 2005, 11:44

Beware the industry of cool

Digital Living We bought the albums. There are certain painful issues of identity and crisis bound up in the whole business of music. There's a painful line in Cameron Crowe's excellent film about rock and roll, Almost Famous, in which legendary rock journalist...

16 September 2006, 7:00

Hacking Napster with Winamp

Digital Living The only difference that might anger the labels is that a dedicated free rider could theoretically record more than 500 albums in a month this way for £15, whereas doing the same thing with an à la carte service at 79p per download would cost...

9 May 2005, 14:48