Posts Tagged ‘itunes’

Cool iTunes Grid View Tip

Friday, November 14th, 2008

I’ve spent the last couple of days updating my iTunes library. Updating track and album info, finding album art, that kind of thing. Took me quite a few hours to get everything organised the way I wanted it, but it’s finally done.

One thing I did notice is that if you use the Grid View and go to Genres, you’ll see the iTunes default logos for each genre of music that you have in your library.

iTunes Genres Default Logos

iTunes Genres Default Logos

That’s not the cool thing though. Move your mouse left and right over the logo, and iTunes will display the album art for each album in that genre.

iTunes Showing Album Covers

iTunes Showing Album Covers

See? Cool!

EMI to Sell DRM-Free Music

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

EMI announced today that they are to make their entire online catalogue available without any copy protection or Digital Rights Management, (DRM). While the DRM-Free music will cost more, it will also be of a higher quality. This makes EMI the first label to back away from DRM. The first songs will be available through the Apple iTunes store in May.

The BBC also have a write up on what DRM is, and why it’s considered a bad idea by the online community, while the labels have embraced it whole-heartedly.