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Winamp Online Skin Museum Opens Celebrating Customization!
When I think back to Winamp, it conjures up a lot of nostalgic memories for me. Mostly revolving around my earliest PC days where running a game on Windows 95 or DOS was often a genuinely tricky decision when it came to performance trade-offs. Despite its age, however, Winamp has…
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Sony Announce 40th Anniversary ‘Walkman’ Release
There are few products more iconic for Sony than their ‘Walkman‘. Released in 1979, the cassette player (if you don’t know what a cassette is, ask your parents) revolutionized music by offering people a portable means of listening to music without the need of carrying a huge ‘boombox’ (again, if…
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MP3 Officially Dead as Licenses are Not Renewed
MP3, the music format that revolutionised digital music on home computers has officially died today. Well, died may be a strong word. But for all intents and purposes it is, at least according to its patent owners, a dead product. Alas poor MP3, I knew thee well The patent holders…
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Apple Music is Stealing Users’ Songs
Users of Apple’s iTunes platform have been complaining for years about the software taking liberties with their local music catalogue, with files being renamed, moved, or even deleted. Now, it seems that Apple is cranking up its level of interference with user’s music files, with reports that Apple Music is…
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The Music Industry Wants The Digital Copyright Law Reformed
First, we had live music, then we got vinyl records, then cassettes and CD’s and now we can enjoy our music anywhere we like in the palm of our hand thanks to Digital music. The problem is that being able to share and copy music so easily isn’t for everyone and…
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Government Changes Mind – Ripping CD’s Now Illegal Again
Left Right Left Right, the government doesn’t quite seem to have a solid stance on the process of ripping your albums and movies. After being made legal last year, it would seem that the high court has once again ruled it should be illegal to copy a CD for whatever…
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Sony Selling Overpriced MicroSD Card ‘For Premium Sound’
Sony has apparently developed a MicroSD card that has been engineered ‘for premium sound’. The card, which is deemed as a companion to the $1,200 Walkman they introduced at CES this year, is supposed to reduce the amount of electrical noise when listening to music. This 64GB Class 10 MicroSD card is…
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Vamp Smart Cube Rejuvenates Old Speakers
It used to be that the central audio hub in every household was the Hi-Fi system. A combination record player, tape deck, and CD player, unified in a single system, hooked up to two stereo speakers. The advent of digital media has undermined these old familiar ways. Smartphones and mp3…
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Sony Announces $1,119.99 Hi-Res Walkman
$1,119.99. For a Walkman. Yes, Sony has just announced its latest Walkman – one that utilises so-called ‘Hi-Res’ audio and subsequently costs $1,119.99. Sony is labelling the Walkman ZX2 as “the fruit of continuous refinement in high audio quality technologies.” It contains 128GB of storage and the ability to play a cavalcade of high…
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Apple Fighting to Prevent Release of Steve Jobs Deposition
The Associated Press, CNN and Bloomberg have filled a motion to have the video deposition of Steve Jobs released from the ongoing iPod lawsuit. The publications are in a battle against Apple’s lawyers who are actively seeking it stays confined to the courtroom. Attorney Thomas Burke made the point that…
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Steve Jobs Still Delivering Sharp Opinions From the Grave
The other day we reported on the news that Steve Jobs was to appear in court over an iPod lawsuit via a video deposition recorded in 2011. Well the trial began yesterday, and we have some of the first details of what was said in that video. According to Reuters, Jobs delivered…
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Noontec Zoro II HD Mobile Headphones Review
Introduction Noontec may not be as common a brand name as Beats, or Bose or many other fancy audio hardware brands, but they’re certainly gaining in popularity with a steady pace. When I reviewed one of their early products here on eTeknix, the original Noontec Zoro, I was far from impressed with the overall…
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Roccat Syva High Performance In-Ear Headset Review
Introduction Gaming on the go is becoming big business, sure there are many of us who would rather be sat at our desks while gaming, or even in front of the big screen, but there are many more options out there. These days we’re gaming on or phones, tablets, hand-held…
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RIP Winamp Media Player As Service Shuts Down After 15 Years
I’m starting to feel like a Leper today, like I’m the only one left who not only uses Winamp, but STILL uses Winamp. It seems like the whole digital music loving community has been corrupted by streaming services, or iTunes or some other junk that strips you away from a…
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2nd PlayStation 4 Firmware Update Will Bring Mp3 and DLNA Support
The PlayStation 3 is an awesome media centre, it supports DLNA media sharing over wi-fi and LAN, it can play 3D blu-rays, DVDs, CD and more. Unfortunately the same cannot be said about the PlayStation 4, or at least not yet. Sony are putting all their focus on getting games…
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