Aint that special » Music http://duck-wing.com/wp Another yummy waste of time Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:36:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 There’s a new Sheriff in town http://duck-wing.com/wp/2007/09/26/theres-a-new-sheriff-in-town/ http://duck-wing.com/wp/2007/09/26/theres-a-new-sheriff-in-town/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:39:14 +0000 Macgiver http://duck-wing.com/wp/2007/09/26/theres-a-new-sheriff-in-town/ I tried out the new Amazon music service. I have to say watch out Apple! It is just about as easy to use as iTunes, although finding music isn’t as straight forward. The albums are a couple of bucks cheaper (for select titles) and the download process couldn’t be any easier. Once you are logged in on their website and have installed the Amazon Downloader, you just purchase the album and away it goes. It loads straight into iTunes with high quality art work included. One minor benefit is that you don’t have to stop watching your video in iTunes just to download some music.

If Amazon is being truly honest about the “No DRM” claim for the music, then this will definitely give Apple some much needed competition. I am positive that this early pricing scheme will change after an introductory period. Kind of like free crack to get you hooked. I’m very skeptical of the major record labels. They have been throwing tantrums over Apple’s instance on $0.99 per track. I find it hard to believe they want to sell the music for less.
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]]> http://duck-wing.com/wp/2007/09/26/theres-a-new-sheriff-in-town/feed/ 0 Let the covers flow again http://duck-wing.com/wp/2006/10/19/let-the-covers-flow-again/ http://duck-wing.com/wp/2006/10/19/let-the-covers-flow-again/#comments Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:30:53 +0000 Macgiver http://duck-wing.com/wp/?p=67 When Apple bought Coverflow to include in iTunes 7, I was both happy and sad. At first I was happy that iTunes finally had a nice interface for my album art. Sadly, Coverflow was no longer available (or so I thought). Coverflow downloaded album art from Amazon while iTunes uses the iTunes store (makes sense). I have some unusual CD’s which iTunes just ignores the cover art for while Coverflow happily found.

Fret not art lovers! Coverflow can still be found at MacUpdate. Just a quick download and your back to the good old days of August 2006.

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]]> http://duck-wing.com/wp/2006/10/19/let-the-covers-flow-again/feed/ 0 Where has all the art gone http://duck-wing.com/wp/2006/09/15/where-has-all-the-art-gone/ http://duck-wing.com/wp/2006/09/15/where-has-all-the-art-gone/#comments Fri, 15 Sep 2006 22:54:06 +0000 Macgiver http://duck-wing.com/wp/?p=44 Now that iTunes 7 has incorporated the snazzy Coverflow album visualizer, your probablly wishing all those P2P files came with art work. Well, look no further than Art Collector by Specere software. Specere is the same company that put out Menuet which can also download artwork. However, Art Collector allows you more direct approach and is not a system control panel (I hate mucking up my mac with more control panels). After you launch Art Collector, you are presented with an alphabetical list of your artists in iTunes. Select the album and you get to see the tracks, current art work and artwork that Art Collector has found. There is a bit of a delay, and really no batch processing, but what do you want for $8.95? Check out the demo, which as far as I can tell is fully functioning.

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