CD format gets a "reboot" from Universal Music
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The world&#039;s biggest record company is  not ready to give the compact disc up for dead just yet, and is  giving the venerable music format a revamp.
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Imagine buying a CD at Best Buy (BBY ) only to discover that it won&#39;t work on the CD player you bought at Circuit City (CC ). Absurd as it sounds, this sort of situation is the rule rather than the exception in the world of legally downloaded music.
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You know it's bound to happen: One of the CDs you've burned is going to stop working - be it from scratches, aging, poor manufacturing or the fact that it was made with old software.    But don't turn that disc into a drink coaster quite yet...
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Then charges back out again The world's biggest record label is touting a scheme that would permit internet users to swap DRM-free music under a blanket license, according to a report. Universal Music Group's "TotalMusic" program would allow customers of ISPs who signed up to the program to exchange files freely - but only if the ISP signed up.â¦
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For years, record labels have been reluctant to release music in unrestricted MP3 formats, but now some music companies are reversing course on the copy protections and playback restrictions originally designed to reduce piracy.
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Taxing the hardware? Column Earlier this month, Universal Music Group (UMG) - the world's largest record company with acts like U2 and Jay-Z - decided not to renew its contract with Apple's iTunes music store. Universal will continue to supply iTunes its vast catalogue but may cancel that supply at any time. In the company's own words, "Universal Music Group will now market its music to iTunes in an 'at will' capacity, as it does with its other retail partners."â¦
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So-called FairUse program breaks copy protection on Windows Media Player.
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aTunes is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform player and manager, with audio cd rip frontend. Currently supported formats are mp3, ogg, wav, wma, flac, mp4, and radio streaming.  Changelog:  - Added year and genre fields to CD ripper (Thomas Beckers) - Added saving of currently selected AudioScrobbler panel (Thomas Beckers) - Added brighter tray icons for Windows Vista (Thomas Beckers) - Added icons in About menu (Thomas Beckers) - Added an entry for enabling/disabling Audioscrobbler panel (Thomas Beckers) - FIX: Persistent split pane divider location (Thomas Beckers) - FIX: Null pointer when deleting a radio station (Thomas Beckers) - FIX: Icons doesn't change from "play" to "pause" [Bug 1818060] (Thomas Beckers) - FIX: "Clear Tag" option freezes UI - Updated Substance Look And Feel version to 4.0 - Repository refresh improved: now checks modification date - FIX: duplicate entries on stats - FIX: Null pointer on Amazon album search - FIX: aTunes freezes at startup when no repository found - Added button for search filter in playlist bar and moved playlist bar to the bottom (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added saving of last used settings in CD ripper (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added filename and pathname checking for export tool (Sylain Gaudard) - Added CTRL-F keybinding to search filter in playlist panel and allowed switching it off by pressing a second time the search filter button (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added Terracotta and Sunset themes avaible in Substance 4.0 (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added new icon for search field reset (Sylvain Gaudard) - Added tooltips to playlist search filter (Sylvain Gaudard) - Reduced font size of file properties panel to allow longer filenames (Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: Adapted preferences dialog for greek translation in order to display the complete text (Sylvain Gaudard, Pavlos Paraskeuopoulos) - FIX: Null pointer when file properties panel gets enabled if no song in playlist [Bug 1810167] (Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: Race condition in mplayer handler (Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: aTunes launches several mplayer instances [Bug 1818064] (Thomas Beckers, Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: Updated cdda2wav.exe to version 2.01.01a35 to fix compatibility with Windows Vista (Thomas Beckers, Sylvain Gaudard) - FIX: Race condition on AudioScrobbler service - Added device features: auto-mount devices, copy from and to repository - FIX: Set default max memory to 128MB (previously was 64MB) - AudioScrobbler Album information visual changes - AudioScrobbler Artist information visual changes - AudioScrobbler Similar artist information visual changes - Added Artist Bio at AudioScrobbler panel - FIX: aTunes would not play the next file with non-english version of mplayer (Bertrand Florat)
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Universal Music, home to artists such as U2, The Killers , and Audioslave, will make its catalog of recordings and music videos available for free on an ad-supported web site launching later this year, the site's operator said yesterday.
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Sony Corp.'s music unit is abandoning its CDs that use built-in technology that limits copying them, after pushing the program for two years.
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Phantom sales lost to piracy? Get over it. It's time for the music labels to pull those master recordings out of storage and make some money. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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A European indie music label is taking an unusual approach to the issue of CD copy protection - it is branding all its releases with a sticker proclaiming the absence of any such control measure.
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Joining the fight against   Apple's dominance over the portable music market, Universal Music Group   announced Tuesday that it will be making its entire catalog available   for free downloading via the ad-supported Website SpiralFrog.com.
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Replacing physical CDs with digital music downloads doesn't necessarily help the environment.
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Walt Disney Co.  music label  Hollywood Records is offering a new CD format with extra  features to encourage compact-disc purchases in a bid to  reverse declining CD sales.
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p2pnet.net News:- Here&#39;s an interesting twist on the Big Music and Microsoft All Pals Together (maybe) story. We reported that the Big Four record labels have given Microsoft a Wish List of the kind of DRM
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With the last remaining label of the big four to join the online retailer's new music store, it could be argued that DRM is essentially dead.