Glastonbury Music Festival & Apple/EMI DRM announcement...
Wet weather gear optionalHell, it's been a long time since I posted anything. A few people emailed me asking me whether NYUB had croaked it. Far from it! I just haven't had the time. Fear not, a new one will be coming out shortly. In the meantime, I managed to secure some coveted tickets to the Glastonbury music festival this year. I'm hoping to record all the weird and wonderful sounds from the festival and throw them on an NYUB episode in July.
Anybody else out there going? I'd love to catch up with you at the festival.
You've all probably heard about the Apple & EMI announcement. All EMI tracks will be sold without DRM. Apparently it's a move by Apple & EMI to please consumers. Bullshit. It's a move to entrench AAC as the defacto digital standard in the industry. Embracing the MP3 format would have been more symbolic.
MK
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Just got back from an 8,100km road trip up and down the east coast of Aus and NYUB featured heavily in the CD player. Thanks for keeping us sane and avoiding local radio.
And talking of DRM, have you seen We7 yet?
Look. Anyone who is sane will still buy traditional media for the moment. For those that *have* to buy digital (for whatever reason), if they're in the know they'll go to one of the smaller boutique offerings like Dancetracksdigital or emusic and get it all DRM free in a format of their choice (within reason). I don't care if there's going to be some homogonized middleground with Starbucks/HearMusic/EMI/AppleCorps/iTunes licensing going on which attempts to force AAC as a defacto - why should I? As long as stuff is DRM free, I don't give a shit whether it's in WMA, Ogg Vorbis, MP3 or that dreaded AAC; You can just change between them with the right tools.