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Flaming Lips create tune for 12 smartphones

by Mike Schramm (Feb 17th, 2011)

This is a little trippy. The band Flaming Lips once released a studio album containing four CDs designed to be played all at the same time. Flaming Lips has upped the ante and uploaded 12 different clips to YouTube, which are all supposed to be played on 12 different smartphones at the same time ...

Gorillaz iPad album, called The Fall, out now

by Mike Schramm (Dec 27th, 2010)

As promised, the new Gorillaz album showed up online over Christmas, and it's available for download right now. The album is called The Fall, and you can listen to one of the 15 tracks, called "Phoner to Arizona," embedded after the break. The whole record was made completely with an iPad, and CNN ...

Gorillaz iPad album coming for free on Christmas

by Mike Schramm (Dec 10th, 2010)

If you were excited to hear that Gorillaz and Blur frontman Damon Albarn has made an album completely on the iPad, get ready to have a very merry Christmas: it's coming out on December 25th, Christmas Day, and Albarn is giving it away for completely free. On Christmas Eve, the band will release a ...

Damon Albarn making next Gorillaz album completely on an iPad

by Mike Schramm (Nov 15th, 2010)

Musicians love the iPad -- it's a powerful computer with an intuitive interface, and that turns Apple's tablet into one of the best musical instruments (both real and virtual) around. Now, Damon Albarn, formerly of Blur and now frontman for the band Gorillaz, has become a fan as well. He tells NME ...

iPodMeister gives you an iPad for your old CDs

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 21st, 2010)

Want to get a new iPad but a little short on cash? Trade in a bunch of your old CDs or DVDs to a company called iPodMeister and your problems are solved. Sound too good to be true? It's not, reports the New York Times. iPodMeister was founded by a group of musicians and students who realized that ...

Snaptell for iPhone goes 2.0

by Mike Schramm (Dec 8th, 2009)

One of my favorite apps in the early days of the App Store, SnapTell Explorer, has recently updated to version 2.0, and while they've dropped the "Explorer" part and were purchased by Amazon earlier this year, the app still offers the same impressive functionality: take a shot of a book, DVD, or ...

"Preview All" added to albums in iTunes

by Ken Ray (Dec 7th, 2009)

Apple has made iTunes a bit more useful for surveying entire albums. A TUAW reader directed our attention to the addition of a 'Preview All' button for albums on the iTunes Store. The store has always given prospective buyers the ability to preview individual tracks. While 30 seconds of sound may ...

Apple and record labels to release competing enhanced album formats

by Casey Johnston (Aug 11th, 2009)

Remember when we said the four largest record companies were working together with Apple to add enhanced liner notes and extra media to full album purchases through the iTunes Store? Well, apparently Apple wasn't in on that cooperation. The Guardian is reporting that the four companies' plans for ...

iTunes Store to add enhanced liner notes, extra media to album purchases

by Casey Johnston (Jul 27th, 2009)

Digital music purchases have been dominating the market for some time now as physical CD purchases continue to fall. For Apple, a significant lead over the rest of the music proprietor world is not enough: according to the Financial Times, the company is now working together with the four largest ...

Scanning wallet cards into the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (May 14th, 2008)

This is pretty much genius. Like Albert, I have a bunch of "membership cards" in my wallet -- they're those cards with a barcode or number on them that you get from places like the local grocery store, or some other retailer. They're useful to have around, but they tend to pile up after a while, ...

Radiohead ditches iTunes to keep album complete

by Mike Schramm (Sep 21st, 2007)

Here's an interesting twist on the iTunes vs. record companies situation. Radiohead (disclaimer: I'm a Radiohead fan) is choosing not to sell their latest album on iTunes not because their record company is pressuring them out of the deal-- their record company is EMI, and they're more than willing ...

TUAW Tip: Re-embed iTunes artwork in media files

by David Chartier (Apr 19th, 2007)

One of the backend changes that came with the release of iTunes 7 is how the app stores album artwork. The days of embedding album artwork in music files are gone, due in part (I assume) to the purchase and integration of CoverFlow, a flashy new way to browse your albums. Artwork is now stored in ...

iTunes Tip: sort by Album is smarter than you think

by David Chartier (Feb 21st, 2007)

The most useful tips are sometimes the easiest to pull off, and this one from ryerye at Mac OS X Hints definitely falls into that camp. It turns out that iTunes' Album column can also sort with "Album by Artist" and "Album by Year." That second option is especially nice, since it's actually a 'Sort ...

CoverSutra - a customizable iTunes controller with style

by David Chartier (Jan 24th, 2007)

These days, there is absolutely no shortage of apps that let you control iTunes in one way or another. You can use your PSP, tiny menubar controllers, countless iTunes widgets and now - CoverSutra. Featuring a stylish bezel with loads of control feedback and album art display, CoverSutra aims to ...

Rumor: iTunes Store could get flexible album pricing

by David Chartier (Nov 11th, 2006)

Certainly one of the drawbacks to buying music on the iTS is the single vs. album purchase: sure you can buy a song or two from an album, or maybe the hot pre-release single, but what happens if you want the rest of the album later, or when it's completely released? This has been a catch with ...