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Song Surgeon
Downloads Song Surgeon is an easy to use software tool for musicans. Song Surgeon is a practical tool regardless of the instrument or music genre. Slowing down music is the most common use for SS, but SS changes pitch and tempo independently of each other.
[December 27, 2007, 3:46]
RIAA: We'll Smother Song Swappers
News The recording industry is experimenting with new technology it hopes can smother online song swapping by targeting music traders' computers directly. Once the software has found a computer offering a certain song, it attempts to block other...
[October 17, 2001, 9:37]
Napster Lifts Some Song-swapping Limits
News Napster's song-swapping filters, installed at the insistence of the courts and the record industry after several court battles, had dramatically reduced the number of songs available. Napster has released a new version of its software that allows...
[June 25, 2001, 15:42]
Software Stops Illegal Song Trading
News Created by software firm Audible Magic and backed strongly by the Recording Industry Association of America, the song-filtering software has already triggered interest in Washington, D.C.along with strong scepticism in the peer-to-peer world and...
[April 21, 2004, 15:20]
Real Halves Song Prices
News For a limited time, RealNetworks will offer song downloads from its music store for 49 cents (27p), along with half-price albums. Digital song stores run by Apple, Sony, RealNetworks and Microsoft-aligned rivals all distribute songs in incompatible...
[August 17, 2004, 9:05]
RIAA Backs Song-identification Firm
News Audible Magic's song-identifying technology is the product of a group of former Yamaha sound engineers, who originally created the software to help movie post-production studios search massive databases of sound effects such as footsteps or door...
[March 3, 2004, 11:25]
Windows Song Site Debuts In UK
News A new pay-by-the-song music service is launching in Western Europe, putting an iTunes-like digital download store inside Microsoft's Windows Media Player. Pressplay, recently purchased by Roxio and renamed Napster, already plans a pay-by-the-song...
[August 14, 2003, 9:15]
University Song-swappers Gain Brief Reprieve
News A Massachusetts court has blocked several recording industry subpoenas that are aimed at college song swappers, saying the universities involved are not immediately required to divulge the alleged file traders' identities.
[August 11, 2003, 13:00]
'Extreme Geek' Resells ITunes Song
News A customer of Apple's iTunes Music Store said he has successfully resold a song he purchased through the service, ending a weeklong exercise he hoped would highlight the legal and technical nuances of emerging digital music services.
[September 11, 2003, 15:40]
Apple Claims Song Sales Far Outstrip Napster
Talkback How is it that Napster "revolutionized online music"? Seems to me they revolutionized online piracy. I think Apple did a lot more to revolutionize online music. Oh, I forgot, this is ZDnet.
[November 10, 2003, 13:09]
Another 80 Song Swappers Hit By Suits
Talkback The law can suck my mother-fuckin dic. I will DOWNLOAD forever. BITCHHHHHHH.
[February 10, 2004, 15:11]
Digital Radio 'could Feed Song Swapping'
Talkback Why can't the RIAA just f off.
[June 14, 2004, 22:58]
RIAA Backs Song-identification Firm
Talkback Determine two periods in the middle of the song, and have a program insert silence, noise, or even the melody of another song. Simply rip albums as a whole, and repeat the process as an interlaced album, with the tracks following a set pattern but...
[March 3, 2004, 15:35]
Companies Struggling To Stop Song Swappers
Talkback Why not capitalize on an individual song rather than an album. I know, I know, this causes those 'poor musicians' to produce more than one entertaining song in their lifetime, big deal. When will the RIAA use some common sense and stop prosecuting...
[September 9, 2003, 23:12]
Another 80 Song Swappers Hit By Suits
Talkback The masses, especially radical thinking but naive teens, are being scared out of their Rights! If the masses defy this and NOT sign some ridiculous 'clean slate' or settle early, then there WILL be too many people to legislate after.
[October 31, 2003, 10:08]
RIAA Backs Song-identification Firm
Talkback ".technology is still being tested and could yet prove unworkable. That about sums it up. In fact, not even "could", but "will". The difference between filtering on Napster and filtering on Gnutella is that in the latter case the end user has to...
[March 3, 2004, 18:33]
Windows Song Site Debuts In UK
Talkback Wow - Now I can download All About Eve's "Scarlet and Other Stories" for £12.99, write it to cd myself, and listen to it forever wishing I had the artwork and sleeve to make it feel "purchased"! Fantastic!
[August 15, 2003, 11:02]
Lawsuits Readied Against UK Song-swappers
Talkback Maybe we should sue the record companys for lousy music content?
[June 23, 2004, 13:32]
Software Stops Illegal Song Trading
Talkback It's an interesting concept that has been taken obviously too far - specifically with the notion of blocking all traffic from encrypting applications. Encryption was created to ensure confidentiality of transmitted material.
[April 23, 2004, 13:17]
More Song Swappers Sued
Talkback The RIAA are abusing the US legal system by threatening end users with huge legal costs if they don't pay $3000. I am in little doubt that at least some of the people the RIAA are suing are innocent, but do not have the funds to defend themselves...
[August 26, 2004, 16:23]
