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Apple buys Chomp for App Store rework

, Feb 24th 2012 Discuss [1]

Apple has reportedly acquired app search specialist Chomp and will use the company's team and technology to rework the App Store to make discovering new software more straightforward. Chomp - which currently offers iPhone, iPad and Android app discovery tools, as well as powering Verizon's Android app search - will be entirely subsumed into Apple, TechCrunch's sources say, with reports that high-level execs have already joined the iTunes team. Read The Full Story

Apple Mastered for iTunes pushes quality

, Feb 23rd 2012 Discuss [1]

Apple has quietly launched Mastered for iTunes, a push to deliver music "exactly as the artists and sound engineers intend it to be heard", though the company maintains that iTunes Plus 256kbps AAC files are still sufficient rather than lossless. In an updated guide to sound engineers and others involved in producing music for digital distribution, Apple outlines the new "Master for iTunes droplet" which can be used to create high-quality iTunes Plus files from AIFF or WAVE masters. Read The Full Story

The Beatles ringtones officially released

, Feb 22nd 2012 Discuss [1]

Remember how you loved customizable ringtones? Remember how much you like The Beatles? It's hard to believe, but it's only today that you can mix the two pleasures together on your iPhone. Apple and EMI have announced that the 27 tracks from The Beatles 1 - which only hit iTunes for the first time last September - are now available as downloadable ringtones for your iPhone. Read The Full Story

Whitney Houston iTunes price jump a mistake insists Sony

, Feb 15th 2012 Discuss [9]

Sony has denied purposefully jacking up the price of Whitney Houston albums in the aftermath of the singer's death at the weekend, claiming that the iTunes listings were "mistakenly mispriced." The record label was accused of opportunistically raising the price of Houston's "The Ultimate Collection" and "Greatest Hits" in the UK iTunes store on Sunday, something Sony told Billboard was a "mistake" and not a reaction to greater attention on the star. Read The Full Story

Apple software exec accepts Grammy on Steve Jobs’ behalf

, Feb 12th 2012 Discuss [5]

Yesterday, ahead of tonight's much more celebrated Grammy Awards telecast, the Record Academy held its ceremony for the annual Special Merit Awards. Perhaps the most noteworthy award was the one honoring the late Steve Jobs. Jobs was announced as a posthumous receipient of the award last year, celebrating his extraordinary achievements in the advancement of digital music distribution. Read The Full Story

Rhapsody, other streaming music sites told to pull Paul McCartney

, Feb 11th 2012 Discuss [23]

Paul McCartney, who continues to believe he's somehow better and more important than any other living musician, has decided to sever his ties with streaming music services like Rhapsody. This means anyone wanting to download a McCartney tune will need to pay for each individual MP3 track. It was surprising that McCartney ever decided to grant licensing rights to the subscription-based all-you-can-eat services in the first place. Read The Full Story

Neil Young to continue Steve Jobs music legacy

, Jan 31st 2012 Discuss [5]

One of the most famous musicians of all time, Neil Young, spoke this week with Peter Kafka and Walt Mossberg of AllThingsD about the future of digital music, and how he'd be continuing Steve Jobs legacy in pioneering for it. A device which allows you to download music with the highest possible resolution is what Young aims to create. This device will allow ultra high-fidelity audio downloads, and because of Young's talks with Jobs on the matter before he died, Young wasted no time invoking his name to spread the word about it. Read The Full Story

AntiCrop for iPhone, iPad 2 expands photos beyond their borders

, Jan 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

When you take a photo at the wrong angle on a camera, you've got no choice but to either cut off all the edges and get a smaller photo or just take it again altogether - but with AntiCrop for iPhone and iPad 2, that process has been automated and magically moved forward. What this application does is, should you want to turn your photo on its side, to fill in the blank spots that are then created with an intelligent duplication process. While you could technically do this yourself with a 3rd party tool like Photoshop, this is just so simple it's undeniable! Read The Full Story

iTunes U Hands-On

, Jan 19th 2012 Discuss [11]

iTunes U isn’t new – Apple first revealed its educational download store back in 2007 – but the new iTunes U app and companion service revealed today is. A suite of not just individual lessons but entire classes and curriculum, iTunes U opens the door to content from high profile schools like Duke, Yale, The Open University and UCLA, with all the multimedia you could desire. Read on for more hands-on feedback.

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iTunes U app released for iPad, teachers rejoice

, Jan 19th 2012 Discuss [3]

Teacher will soon be able to “do everything on their iPad” as Apple announced this week at their education-based event this week, as iTunes U brings forth a fully interactive set of tools that any teacher, professor, or otherwise leader can use. The user interface is very similar to what iBooks has to offer, this being part of the grander plan to bring all of these education applications into one big experience for the classroom. Inside the iTunes U app, you the teacher are able to set up your classroom experience into categories, each category containing interactive elements such as checklists and the ability to send messages to students and give assignments through the web.

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iTunes Match launches in 19 more countries

, Jan 17th 2012 Discuss [1]

Apple is expanding its iTunes Match music service to 19 new countries throughout Latin America and Europe. The service first launched in the US last November, spreading to a few other countries, including Australia, Canada, and the UK, in December, and most recently launching in the Netherlands. Read The Full Story

Good-bye CDs: Digital downloads overshadowing physical sales

, Jan 6th 2012 Discuss [4]

If Steve Jobs could see the figures for digital downloads today, there would be a big sheepish grin on his face. After promising to reinvent the music industry with the iPod over ten years ago, that promise is now ringing true. For the first time in the U.S. physical sales have been overshadowed by digital downloads. Adding salt to an open wound, digital downloads have not only increased to surpass the competition, but physical sales have actually fallen 5%, Nielsen SoundScan and Billboard reported. Read The Full Story
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