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Attempt To "Digitalize" Beatles Goes Sour
An anonymous reader points to this article at exclaim.ca, which begins "Just when Beatles fans thought the band were finally going digital, the Norwegian national broadcaster has been forced to call off the deal. Broadcasting company NRK has had to remove a series of 212 podcasts, each of which featured a different Beatles song and would have effectively allowed fans to legally download the entire Fab Four catalogue for free."
Yes yes yes!! Thank you for adding that. It's along the same lines of saying you can only listen to music purchased from iTunes on an iPod.
They're notoriously restrictive, so much so that I was surprised when I heard them while scanning through FM radio stations on my iAudio, because it had been so long since I'd heard a Beatles song.
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Define your terms. I'm a young guy (53), and I like a lot of music made in this century, but I despise the dreck that makes it to the top of the charts. The current A&R policy for pop music is driven by a business model based on focus groups [beforethemusicdies.com]; it's a dinosaur, thrashing its tail in its dying throes, crushing a few of the tiny mammalian successors that will eventually reign supreme!!!!
I feel better now.
But I still wish radio didn't suck so much.
"Cats like plain crisps"
What's the fuss? I bought all CD's and ripped then to ogg. I can listen to them on my favourite music player. Maybe the iPod does not support ogg, I don't know, but that's a limitation of the iPod.
I listen to the Beatles regularly via my mp3 player. It's not that hard. Why "finally going digital" if sane people have had them digitally for a long time?