I've had this freaking remake of a song stuck in my head for about 2 weeks now.

( t.a.T.u. - How soon is now? )

I went crawling back to iTunes. I gave Songbird a decent chance. The iPod plug-in for it has issues. They're currently in the process of rewriting the plug-in, but from the notes I've read, it's only stable with 0.4 version of Songbird. That being said, stability wasn't my complaint. It was how it synched with the device. It just... sucked ( Read more... )

( Korn - Seen it All )

Just a follow-up note reporting on replacing iTunes with Songbird. I'm successfully running Songbird 0.5 and able to sync with my iPod classic (60g). It's unfortunate that I had to install iTunes first to do some stuff on the iPod (restore the device to default factory settings via iTunes), but once it was done, I haven't opened iTunes since. ( Read more... )

For awhile, I've been looking for an iTunes replacement. Songbird seems decent enough. Songbird is basically Mozilla Firefox reskinned/repurposed as a media player. Allows you to install addons/skins as well. More importantly, I don't need to have iTunesHelper.exe and all the little hidden gotchas along with iTunes (such as the services, etc ( Read more... )

Trent Reznor of NiN is making waves.And it appears to be working quite well for Reznor, who has managed to sell all 2,500 copies of his $300 package without major label backing or much in the way of splashy marketing.
and...Even without a major marketing campaign, the album release generated so much interest that the NiN servers were knocked offline ( Read more... )

Let the music industry know that you really want it to go down in flames by purchasing NIN's latest album for $5.00 (36 tracks!). First Radiohead, now NIN. They're going to make some serious waves in the industry.