Posts Tagged ‘Music’

Day 67: Mixing desk

Sunday, February 21st, 2010


Day 67: Mixing desk, originally uploaded by Craig wants camera stagetime.

I am getting ready to do a recording session for an accordionist, so doing
some final setups on the sound gear.

For the audio techies out there, it is a Behringer 2442FX mixing desk.

Paul McCartney’s bass guitar

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

Paul McCartney’s bass guitar, originally uploaded by Craig Strachan.

Here is a picture of Paul McCartney’s bass guitar – yes the original! It was on the wall at Planet Hollywood on Times Square, New York.

Apple to remove DRM copy-protection from ITunes

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

According to CNET, Apple announced yesterday that they will be removing DRM copy-protection from their entire ITunes store catalogue.

This means that you will be able to purchase music from ITunes, and listen to it on any MP3 player, essentially decoupling ITunes from the IPOD, and making the store available to non IPOD users.

Since I firmly believe that the only future for the music industry is to make it cheaper and easier to legally obtain music than to obtain it illegally, I think that this is a major move in the right direction.

The pricing of music will change, whereby current chart songs will be more expensive and the majority of the catalogue will reduce to 79c per song (the price has been $1 since they start trading about 5 years ago). I am convinced that this is only the first step, and that we can expect further price reductions.

Now, if only Apple will open up the store to users in South Africa…

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