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The AudioFile: Audio Quality Cheapskates

8:57 am PDT • August 24, 2007

Last week I got a 16GB Creative Zen V Plus, the first flash-based MP3 player to move past the 8GB mark (aside from players with microSD card slots). And we’ll…

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The AudioFile: Handcuffing Digital Music

9:22 am PDT • August 17, 2007

Copy protection is leaking out of the digital music industry like water from a cracked snow-globe. The latest developments continue to point toward a DRM-free future in which you’ll buy…

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The AudioFile: Can Apple Afford to Slacker?

8:17 am PDT • August 10, 2007

Radio gives you two important things: It keeps you from getting in a musical rut, and you don’t have to make any decisions about what to listen to next. Now…

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The AudioFile: Bluetooth To Bite Less

11:24 am PDT • August 3, 2007

Next year, portable wireless audio is finally going to stop sucking. With the advent of the next generation of Bluetooth and improvements in miniaturization techniques, not to mention ever-increasing efficiency…

This week: Computers, set-top boxes (like AppleTV), and AV receivers are battling to be your household hub, streaming music and movies back and forth across your pad until you become…

I was riding my bike the other day, when I got a call from Apple. I pulled over to the curb, and by the time the light on the corner…

Satellite radio is in the toilet, and the government and the recording industry are trying to squeeze Internet radio for more dough — unsuccessfully for now, according to today’s news.…

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The AudioFile: A Day In the Life of an iPod

10:06 am PST • February 16, 2007

On Valentine’s Day, as I was perusing Time Out New York looking for something lame romantic to do, I came across a roundup of music-activated sex toys that you can…

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The AudioFile: Is the RIAA Smoking Apples?

6:36 am PST • February 9, 2007

The music industry should be in a state of panic right now, but not because of piracy. The confusion surrounding digital music and the future of DRM was compounded this…