digital music

How do I listen to the music on my PC in another room?

Digital Living Audiophiles can turn to the Sonos Digital Music System, which offers the best sound quality of all the units here, thanks to its decent built-in amp, and a natty remote control. I've got all my music ripped to my PC, which is in the study.

21 February 2007, 16:44

What's DRM and should I avoid it?

Digital Living DRM stands for 'digital rights management', and is a technology used by record labels and online music stores to limit what you can and can't do with the music you buy from them. I want to start buying my music from online download stores, but I've...

20 June 2007, 11:49

Top five ways MP3 has changed the world

Digital Living Sure, if MP3 hadn't come along when it did, some other codec would have become the standard for the burgeoning digital music scene. Making music vanish into thin airThe most important thing MP3 did was to usher in the final format for all media...

17 August 2005, 15:30

Is Prince the prototype?

Digital Living This is starting to resemble the digital music marketplace columnists such as myself have been prattling on about for years: a more direct and efficient connection between artists and fans that allows both parties to keep more of their money.

Tags: stores, fans, digital music, deal

9 May 2005, 15:48

Consumers frustrated by online music catalogues

Digital Living The same goes for the labels' massive out-of-print back catalogues, as well as thousands of current artists and bands who are underrepresented on digital music services. Now that the RIAA has been suing people for almost two years for sharing music...

16 June 2005, 12:44

The digital won't let me go

Digital Living I didn't have to embrace the digital music revolution. The digital, it seemed, had killed our music. Work is normally and unremarkably digital. What does it mean to live a digital life? When you start a new job, you join new networks and become...

16 May 2005, 12:40

The Cloud, the Screen and the Hand

Digital Living Here's some principles that govern how digital stuff should flow in our lives. The future belongs to the people who will allow digital content to flow between the Cloud, the Screen and the Hand. When they work together seamlessly, the digital part...

Tags: jobs, care, flow, address book

20 May 2006, 8:58

Hacking Napster with Winamp

Digital Living After all, the only way to protect the music completely -- to make it truly impervious to some sort of real-time-recording hack -- would be to make the entire chain, from the online music store to your speakers, purely digital.

9 May 2005, 15:48

Gates keynote: move along, folks, nothing to see

Digital Living He got round the problem of demonstrating Microsoft products that didn't work by demonstrating things that aren't yet Microsoft products: some good old-fashioned vapourware, a sort of science-fiction demo of how the digital world might look in 2010.

6 January 2006, 9:57

Lost on the Underground with my PVR

Digital Living I've used two different Archos PVRs (the AV4100 and AV700) to watch digital TV programmes on the Tube, and I've watched UMD films using a PSP. Apple has emphatically solved this issue for handling music files, but handling video is much more...

26 September 2005, 10:38

CES: Drama in the desert, but what's the story?

Digital Living His carefully blank expression, contrasted with the wry amusement of the crowd, captured the drama of the huge struggle that's going on between the Microsofts and the Intels, and the Apples and the Sonys, for control of our digital lives.

4 January 2006, 11:43

CeBIT 2006: It's all about the stuff

Digital Living People love the look and the feel and the weight of their iPods, and not just the digital music within. I've packed my laptop, of course; a digital SLR for photographing all the new products; a camcorder so we can show you the most exciting...

8 March 2006, 15:02

How to stream MP3s wirelessly

Digital Living But it sounds like you are specifically looking for a simple digital audio receiver (DAR). But before you buy, you also need to consider the music formats and services. If you use iTunes Music Store, you have only one choice for streaming purchased...

9 May 2005, 15:48

Sonos ZP80

Digital Living Invest in a pair of ZP80s and you can stream all your digital music from your computer to your hi-fi, wirelessly. Setup is effortless and configuration almost nonexistent, but does the ease of use justify the high price?

5 May 2006, 11:32

Living with infinite digital choice

Digital Living Imagine that you also have advanced technology that enables you to access all existing human digital culture: all books, all images, all music, all television and film programming. They have digital radios, PCs and laptops that contain peer-to-peer...

26 October 2005, 12:48