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Motorola ROKR E1

Digital Living Here at last is the long-awaited Apple and Motorola iTunes phone. It's small, it's white and silver, and it synchronises painlessly with iTunes. Is it going to be rocking your suburb?

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23 September 2005, 16:18

Which UK music download store is the best?

Digital Living The online music market leader, as you may be aware, is Apple's iTunes Store. An album from the iTunes Store will set you back £7.99, which is in line with online competitors. Its downloads are protected by software called DRM (digital rights...

2 May 2007, 16:12

How do I get music off my iPod?

Digital Living Enable your iPod for use as an external drive by connecting it to your Mac and waiting for iTunes to start up. I jumped up to celebrate when England scored against Paraguay and knocked my laptop off the table -- now I can't listen to the songs I...

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15 June 2006, 12:12

What's DRM and should I avoid it?

Digital Living For example, Apple uses DRM called 'Fair Play' that rather unfairly only lets you play songs from its iTunes store on its iPod music players. Some stores are slowly beginning to see the light and offer DRM-free downloads -- both iTunes and 7digital...

20 June 2007, 10:49

What MP3 player for my particular needs?

Digital Living And I don't want an iPod because I don't want to be tied into iTunes alone, I have masses of WAVs, WMAs etc. There's also plenty of free software -- although again you can use Anapod Explorer -- that will let you use your iPod without iTunes, and...

23 November 2006, 16:11

Which new iPod should I buy?

Digital Living You should consider the £99-£129 nano if you buy most of your music from iTunes or if your library is primarily stocked with MP3s (as opposed to lossless audio). The person most likely to use the touch to its full potential is a frequent flier, a...

26 September 2007, 16:08

Do more with your iPod

Digital Living From the new account, in iTunes, click File > Add Folder To Library, and copy over whatever music you want (make sure to check the box next to 'Copy files to iTunes music folder' when adding to library, under Advanced in the Preferences dialogue...

9 May 2005, 14:49

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

Digital Living Those with iTunes will have ended up with music files in Apple's AAC format, unless they have changed the default settings, so check the streamer supports it. If you've bought music from the iTunes music store, you'll have to use Apple's Airport...

21 February 2007, 16:44

Is Prince the prototype?

Digital Living Companies such as CDBaby, IODA, and IRIS Distribution are already helping independent artists get their music onto music stores such as iTunes and Napster, while allowing the bands to keep a larger percentage of their royalties than they would...

Tags: stores, fans, digital music, deal

9 May 2005, 14:48

Beware the industry of cool

Digital Living It's all about the music…" At which point a cool act comes on, like a dancing monkey, to show how cool Steve is for putting music first, and how cool we are for owning Apple products, and how cool everyone will be once they've downloaded the next...

16 September 2006, 7:00

Motorola Razr V3im

Digital Living Motorola returns once more to the iconic Razr, dresses it in metallic burgundy and adds a phone-sized edition of Apple's iTunes music software -- but is it still the sharpest phone on the street, or has familiarity dulled its appeal?

12 May 2006, 10:30

Radio radio: it's a sound sensation

Digital Living It could be a paid-for music service, free media on a Web site like BBC.co.uk, an MP3 emailed from a friend, iTunes on your iPod or a podcast on your Archos PVR. It's no coincidence that the people who dominate the iTunes Podcast chart are all...

13 March 2006, 14:20

The Cloud, the Screen and the Hand

Digital Living The music data that I enter I do via iTunes on my PC, in terms of things like playlists. The funny thing is that the Apple Store, iTunes and the iPod is the only properly worked-out integration of these three modes.

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20 May 2006, 7:58

How to stream MP3s wirelessly

Digital Living If you use iTunes Music Store, you have only one choice for streaming purchased music: Apple's AirPort Express. Can you recommend a good wireless streaming device? Nothing too fancy -- I just want to stream some MP3s around the house.

9 May 2005, 14:48

Is there a non-Apple flash player I should buy?

Digital Living You'll have to bear in mind that only the iPod works with iTunes, which is still the easiest way we've found to download tracks. My friends tell me to buy an iPod Shuffle, but I don't want to look like every other white earbud clone on the train to...

17 May 2005, 21:12