Wal-Mart Flexes Music Muscle – AC/DC Deal Moves 780,000 – Popular Downloads Now 74 Cents

Just in time for the silly season, Wal-Mart is flexing some serious music muscle in an industry that is basically knocked out on its feet. This past week, AC/DC sold more than 780,000 copies its first new album in over 10 years Black Ice. The exclusive retailer deal, with a substantial marketing rollout by both Wal-Mart and Columbia Records, demonstrated the retailers clout with consumers. In addition, Wal-mart relaunched their...

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Toontrack Announces Drumtracker – Drum Replacement Application For Mac & PC

Toontrack has announced Drumtracker, a new standalone application for replacing drums in a song. There’s not a lot of detail in the announcement except for the feature list below, however we can tell you that Drumtracker is a multi-track audio to MIDI converter for sound replacement for both Mac and PC. Features: » Host independent, Stand Alone software for converting drum audio to drum MIDI. Import Audio tracks, export...

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