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Another weekend out of town for me, but I didn’t want to let it pass without recommending an excellent new old music service: Audiogalaxy. Yes, that Audiogalaxy. Around the turn of the Millennium it was one of several post-Napster file sharing options for downloading music illegally. Now it’s a simple application for your [...] Two weeks ago, I reviewed a number of possible Lala replacements, and on May 31st the best music site ever shut down as promised. As part of the shut down, Apple gave everyone who had purchased 10-cent Web songs an iTunes gift card. Because Apple rounded up to the nearest $5, I got a [...] On May 31, the Lala music service, which valiantly attempted to be your full-service iTunes in the cloud, will go off-line. Presumably, the reason they’re shutting down is to make room for an authentic version of the service from Apple itself. Apple bought the company last December, and since then there has been hopeful [...] It’s starting to seem obvious that Napster and eMusic, iTunes and Bit.Torrent have all been part of a transitional period. An interstitial era between the time when buying music meant buying physical media, and when we ultimately begin consuming most of our music from the Web. We will look back on this period and [...] |
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