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In September following years of buildup. Amazon. Amazon's online clout and savvy coupled with the fact that the store would only sell DRM-free. MP3s made us conclude that the AMZN might be the first ones to give Apple's iTunes a run for its money. So how's it doing? There's aren't any publicly available numbers to evaluate. But last month that Amazon had. And our gut is that their momentum may be increasing. We've heard anecdotally from music fans who say they've shifted from AAPL's iTunes to Amazon -- even though the new store only has two of the four major labels signed on. And it's not just music snobs or anti-DRM fanatics: A quick snapshot of both stores' top-seller lists seems to indicate that both are reaching similar mainstream audiences -- both iTunes and Amazon buyers for instance like Fergie iTunes' top 10 is on the left; Amazon's top sellers on the right. We are personally plenty happy with iTunes -- the stuff we buy works on our iPods and that's all we care about. Have you switched to Amazon? Sticking with iTunes? Let us know in comments below. Mark: SD card/car stereo point is perfect. Not sure why someone would buy iTunes AAC when Amazon MP3 is more widely supported. I signed up for eMusic and burned through their free trial and the first month of service. Great "rarer" stuff on there but not worth the silly pricing structure. Anonyjoe: 3 billion songs (iTunes alone) is hardly a tiny useless pie. And listening to something on the radio is hardly the same as owning the file and being able to listen to it whenever you want on whichever device you want. Dan thanks for the correction. I forgot about the price decrease. However. Amazon's still better pricewise if they've got what you need. I got Blondie's Greatest Hits recently for just $8.99. A bargain for a great band!If the prices are equivalent. I think Amazon ends up winning for me anyway. Reason? My car takes SD cards and can play MP3 files but not Apple's AAC files protected or unprotected. It's not worth the hassle for me to convert the AAC over to MP3 just to be able to play them in the car. (Which lacks an AUX jack so no easy plug and play for my iPhone.)I had eMusic just a month or so ago. If they have what you're interested in (say stuff like Fugazi) it's not bad. I actually think they do a pretty good job in their UI of helping you discover other artists. However if Amazon can cut the deals with the independent labels. I see no need for eMusic either. Agree that signup before browse is also short-sighted. (I'd have said idiotic but it's Christmas!) Mark. Apple's DRM-free songs are now. At this point. I'm buying wherever I can buy the highest bitrate/lowest DRM regardless of user interface. All of my devices/computers are currently Apple (except my Treo but it plays MP3s about as well as my early 90s cassette Walkman) so I don't really need DRM-free -- but the bitrate makes a noticeable difference. BTW has anyone tried eMusic lately? Are they still making you sign up before you can even browse their library? What a moronic move. Agree with you folks re: Amazon's clunky design though not sure how much it matters - normally when I go to iTunes it's to buy something specific and if you know what you're looking for. Amazon does work ok. Fact that neither store is particularly good for "discovering" music - finding stuff you weren't looking for but turn out to like anyway - is one of the best arguments for subscription services. But doesn't seem to have convinced many consumers. I haven't switched to Amazon but do go there for music that isn't quite worth $1.29 a song for Apple's DRM-free product. However the selection's not great and the UI as mentioned above isn't my favorite. I think though that I will switch over to Amazon once they get the other labels added. The plug-in for Safari to manage downloads also actually works very well and results in the purchased songs being loaded directly into my iTunes library so there's not a lot of messing around once I've made the purchase. I buy a lot of music on iTunes but occasionally buy on Amazon. For me their store isn't designed very well. If I happen to find music there and it happens to be available for download. I might get it. Their selection is too hit-or-miss though to regularly shop there. For me it's the convenience. All of my players are Apples (iPods and iPhone) so I don't care about DRM. It's the music really.

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In September following years of buildup. Amazon. Amazon's online clout and savvy coupled with the fact that the store would only sell DRM-free. MP3s made us conclude that the AMZN might be the first ones to give Apple's iTunes a run for its money. So how's it doing? There's aren't any publicly available numbers to evaluate. But last month that Amazon had. And our gut is that their momentum may be increasing. We've heard anecdotally from music fans who say they've shifted from AAPL's iTunes to Amazon -- even though the new store only has two of the four major labels signed on. And it's not just music snobs or anti-DRM fanatics: A quick snapshot of both stores' top-seller lists seems to indicate that both are reaching similar mainstream audiences -- both iTunes and Amazon buyers for instance like Fergie iTunes' top 10 is on the left; Amazon's top sellers on the right. We are personally plenty happy with iTunes -- the stuff we buy works on our iPods and that's all we care about. Have you switched to Amazon? Sticking with iTunes? Let us know in comments below. Mark: SD card/car stereo point is perfect. Not sure why someone would buy iTunes AAC when Amazon MP3 is more widely supported. I signed up for eMusic and burned through their free trial and the first month of service. Great "rarer" stuff on there but not worth the silly pricing structure. Anonyjoe: 3 billion songs (iTunes alone) is hardly a tiny useless pie. And listening to something on the radio is hardly the same as owning the file and being able to listen to it whenever you want on whichever device you want. Dan thanks for the correction. I forgot about the price decrease. However. Amazon's still better pricewise if they've got what you need. I got Blondie's Greatest Hits recently for just $8.99. A bargain for a great band!If the prices are equivalent. I think Amazon ends up winning for me anyway. Reason? My car takes SD cards and can play MP3 files but not Apple's AAC files protected or unprotected. It's not worth the hassle for me to convert the AAC over to MP3 just to be able to play them in the car. (Which lacks an AUX jack so no easy plug and play for my iPhone.)I had eMusic just a month or so ago. If they have what you're interested in (say stuff like Fugazi) it's not bad. I actually think they do a pretty good job in their UI of helping you discover other artists. However if Amazon can cut the deals with the independent labels. I see no need for eMusic either. Agree that signup before browse is also short-sighted. (I'd have said idiotic but it's Christmas!) Mark. Apple's DRM-free songs are now. At this point. I'm buying wherever I can buy the highest bitrate/lowest DRM regardless of user interface. All of my devices/computers are currently Apple (except my Treo but it plays MP3s about as well as my early 90s cassette Walkman) so I don't really need DRM-free -- but the bitrate makes a noticeable difference. BTW has anyone tried eMusic lately? Are they still making you sign up before you can even browse their library? What a moronic move. Agree with you folks re: Amazon's clunky design though not sure how much it matters - normally when I go to iTunes it's to buy something specific and if you know what you're looking for. Amazon does work ok. Fact that neither store is particularly good for "discovering" music - finding stuff you weren't looking for but turn out to like anyway - is one of the best arguments for subscription services. But doesn't seem to have convinced many consumers. I haven't switched to Amazon but do go there for music that isn't quite worth $1.29 a song for Apple's DRM-free product. However the selection's not great and the UI as mentioned above isn't my favorite. I think though that I will switch over to Amazon once they get the other labels added. The plug-in for Safari to manage downloads also actually works very well and results in the purchased songs being loaded directly into my iTunes library so there's not a lot of messing around once I've made the purchase. I buy a lot of music on iTunes but occasionally buy on Amazon. For me their store isn't designed very well. If I happen to find music there and it happens to be available for download. I might get it. Their selection is too hit-or-miss though to regularly shop there. For me it's the convenience. All of my players are Apples (iPods and iPhone) so I don't care about DRM. It's the music really.

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In September following years of buildup. Amazon. Amazon's online clout and savvy coupled with the fact that the store would only sell DRM-free. MP3s made us conclude that the AMZN might be the first ones to give Apple's iTunes a run for its money. So how's it doing? There's aren't any publicly available numbers to evaluate. But last month that Amazon had. And our gut is that their momentum may be increasing. We've heard anecdotally from music fans who say they've shifted from AAPL's iTunes to Amazon -- even though the new store only has two of the four major labels signed on. And it's not just music snobs or anti-DRM fanatics: A quick snapshot of both stores' top-seller lists seems to indicate that both are reaching similar mainstream audiences -- both iTunes and Amazon buyers for instance like Fergie iTunes' top 10 is on the left; Amazon's top sellers on the right. We are personally plenty happy with iTunes -- the stuff we buy works on our iPods and that's all we care about. Have you switched to Amazon? Sticking with iTunes? Let us know in comments below. Mark: SD card/car stereo point is perfect. Not sure why someone would buy iTunes AAC when Amazon MP3 is more widely supported. I signed up for eMusic and burned through their free trial and the first month of service. Great "rarer" stuff on there but not worth the silly pricing structure. Anonyjoe: 3 billion songs (iTunes alone) is hardly a tiny useless pie. And listening to something on the radio is hardly the same as owning the file and being able to listen to it whenever you want on whichever device you want. Dan thanks for the correction. I forgot about the price decrease. However. Amazon's still better pricewise if they've got what you need. I got Blondie's Greatest Hits recently for just $8.99. A bargain for a great band!If the prices are equivalent. I think Amazon ends up winning for me anyway. Reason? My car takes SD cards and can play MP3 files but not Apple's AAC files protected or unprotected. It's not worth the hassle for me to convert the AAC over to MP3 just to be able to play them in the car. (Which lacks an AUX jack so no easy plug and play for my iPhone.)I had eMusic just a month or so ago. If they have what you're interested in (say stuff like Fugazi) it's not bad. I actually think they do a pretty good job in their UI of helping you discover other artists. However if Amazon can cut the deals with the independent labels. I see no need for eMusic either. Agree that signup before browse is also short-sighted. (I'd have said idiotic but it's Christmas!) Mark. Apple's DRM-free songs are now. At this point. I'm buying wherever I can buy the highest bitrate/lowest DRM regardless of user interface. All of my devices/computers are currently Apple (except my Treo but it plays MP3s about as well as my early 90s cassette Walkman) so I don't really need DRM-free -- but the bitrate makes a noticeable difference. BTW has anyone tried eMusic lately? Are they still making you sign up before you can even browse their library? What a moronic move. Agree with you folks re: Amazon's clunky design though not sure how much it matters - normally when I go to iTunes it's to buy something specific and if you know what you're looking for. Amazon does work ok. Fact that neither store is particularly good for "discovering" music - finding stuff you weren't looking for but turn out to like anyway - is one of the best arguments for subscription services. But doesn't seem to have convinced many consumers. I haven't switched to Amazon but do go there for music that isn't quite worth $1.29 a song for Apple's DRM-free product. However the selection's not great and the UI as mentioned above isn't my favorite. I think though that I will switch over to Amazon once they get the other labels added. The plug-in for Safari to manage downloads also actually works very well and results in the purchased songs being loaded directly into my iTunes library so there's not a lot of messing around once I've made the purchase. I buy a lot of music on iTunes but occasionally buy on Amazon. For me their store isn't designed very well. If I happen to find music there and it happens to be available for download. I might get it. Their selection is too hit-or-miss though to regularly shop there. For me it's the convenience. All of my players are Apples (iPods and iPhone) so I don't care about DRM. It's the music really.

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From (Phillips/Odeon. 1972)If you've noticed my posting evaluate's picked up of late - god bless winter end. We'll see how long I can act this up but personally it's been fun knocking out these posts because it means revisiting a turn of songs that undergo been in queue and are just now getting some shine. Case in point: I've had this Suite London album since before I moved to L. A but it's taken me this desire to get around to it despite it being one of those albums that I'm constantly amazed by. It is by any accounts a very special performance pairing the UK's '60s rock group with the London Philharmonic. You might think that's yawn-worthy but think of it like the best jazz-meets-rock-meets-funk-meets-symphonic collaboration David Axelrod never sat in on. It's a completely mesmerizing album filled with these strikingly beautiful vocal and musical passages with unexpectedly sophisticated polyrhythmic passages. Way ahead of its measure and an album you can pretty much needle-drop onto get alone and enjoy. The two tracks I pulled out are both slow burners - let them build and you can watch how masterfully they go together. The original vinyl versions of this album - on either label - are scarce but luckily the group has enough of a fanbase that they've been able to reissue this on CD (which is probably an easier way to apply the whole thing as a suite.

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From (Phillips/Odeon. 1972)If you've noticed my posting rate's picked up of late - god bless winter end. We'll see how desire I can keep this up but personally it's been fun knocking out these posts because it means revisiting a slew of songs that have been in queue and are just now getting some shine. Case in point: I've had this Suite London album since before I moved to L. A but it's taken me this long to get around to it despite it being one of those albums that I'm constantly amazed by. It is by any accounts a very special performance pairing the UK's '60s rock group with the London Philharmonic. You might think that's yawn-worthy but evaluate of it like the best jazz-meets-rock-meets-funk-meets-symphonic collaboration David Axelrod never sat in on. It's a completely mesmerizing album filled with these strikingly beautiful vocal and musical passages with unexpectedly sophisticated polyrhythmic passages. Way ahead of its time and an album you can pretty much needle-drop onto leave alone and enjoy. The two tracks I pulled out are both slow burners - let them create and you can watch how masterfully they go together. The original vinyl versions of this album - on either label - are scarce but luckily the assort has enough of a fanbase that they've been able to reproduce this on CD (which is probably an easier way to enjoy the whole thing as a suite.

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It's pretty hard to believe 2007's almost over! I always pay the holiday week thinking about all the places I went and things I did this year and since I have a terrible memory. I'd desire to start capturing all that. Is there an easy way to set up a timeline of stuff that happened to me this year and past something I can update each New Year? I don't have the patience to keep a journal all the time and each event will probably be only a few lines. Suggestions? There are a few ways you can set up a timeline to help remember everything you did this year. Previously mentioned webapp is a nice place to create life stories on a timeline share them with others and add photos from Flickr and other services (like cheep. Amazon etc.) If you don't be to host your data elsewhere the open obtain is really cool. Here's a breakdown on. More lo-fi solutions include or you could just act a Google Calendar to capture past events too (the Agenda view isn't quite a timeline but it's a nice list of events). Update: You can also. LH readers shout out your timeline suggestions—or any way you keep track of life events—in the comments. Personally. I'd use Google Calendar and set up another calendar for major events (I really don't be to know that I went to the dentist on March 14th at 10am). That way you can select/deselect calendars in Google Calendar for easier viewing. You can easily move events from one calendar to another in the Edit Event screen and Google's search capabilities are quite good. I'm also syncing iCal to Google Calendar so you have the flexibility to decide whether or not to keep the historical stuff on your Mac/iPod. Worth a look for timelining: TimeFlyer from You can just drag in some of your 2007 photos and it'll create events automatically for you. A couple of different believe styles to decide from change colors fonts etc print across pages or as a huge PDF if you prefer to banner create at a office give shop. Worth a look for timelining needs: TimeFlyer from You can draw some 2007 photos into it and it'll automatically create events from them. There are a few different layout styles to choose from; you can create across pages or to a huge PDF if you'd like to banner print from a office supply shop. I would suggest: Take pics of such events/holidays and upload them in flickr. In flickr you can then see the calendar sorted according to the date when a picture is taken. In case you have a flickr account you can access your archives.

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