Apple May Offer New Lossless Codec Via iTunes

The latest version of Apple’s iTunes Producer, a software program sent to record labels as a utility for submitting their music for inclusion on the iTunes Music Store, hints that Apple may begin to sell tracks on iTunes encoded with their new lossless format. The lossless compression technology debuted as part of QuickTime 6.5.1 in 2004. At the time, Apple claimed that the new format offered CD quality sound at close to half...

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Sony/BMG Offers Fan Sites Free Music & Music Videos

Sony/BMG is promoting a new site, called Musicbox Video, that showcases videos, artist interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and other material from a broad portfolio of its artists. Instead of beating down the fan sites and bloggers with the usual cease-and-desist letters, Sony/BMG will advocate linking to Musicbox. Easy to implement links for adding Musicbox content are displayed right next to the songs and videos. Using Flash to...

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