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...Compared to the elegance of streaming, downloading an illegal mp3 and syncing it across numerous devices is cumbersome. Other problems remain....
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...“James v UMG Recordings” is a dispute about how much money musicians should receive from digital downloads of their work....
...MP3 players, internet streaming services, MySpace, mobile phones: music is everywhere....
...The MP3 is no longer our friend, fellow music lovers, we must fight for a better quality listen....
...And Chinesepod is mobile: lessons are delivered to learners’ MP3 players or mobile phones, so they can listen when stuck in traffic or squashed together on the Shanghai subway....
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...Vivendi’s Universal Music Group said earlier this month it would offer thousands of its recordings online without DRM in a six month trial....
...Among the alternatives, Creative’s Zen V also delivers excellent sound quality and boasts additional features such as voice recording and line-in recording for recording directly from a CD player....
...“A&R by committee is nothing new,” says Rob Wells, divisional director of digital at Universal Music UK, citing online ventures such as Peoplesound, mp3.com and Sweden’s Fanglobe....
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...I want to store my Mp3 music externally as I badly need to move my jazz music collections to a bigger space. Can you assist? Edward Sy A....
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