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Yes it is A Different Kind Of Truth. January 11, 2012

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Van Halen is back with David Lee Roth sans Michael Anthony; Wolfgang Van Halen (Eddie’s son) is taking the bass duty. New album titled “A Different Kind Of Truth” is scheduled for February 7th, 2012 release while its first single “Tattoo” goes on sale on January 10th, 2012 on iTunes and January 14th, everywhere else such as Amazon MP3.

Blabbermouth.net user GhostofPerdition pointed out that “A Different Kind Of Truth” cover art looks like a rip-off of The Commodores “Movin’ On”.

Cannot unsee!

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey trailer. December 20, 2011

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Trailer is available at iTunes Movie Trailers page and App.
The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey is scheduled for release December 14th, 2012.

For some reasons, Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) reminds me of a Klingon.

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Metallica: “Beyond Magnetic” on iTunes. December 12, 2011

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Four previously unreleased songs from “Death Magnetic” recording session is now available on iTunes collectively titled “Beyond Magnetic“. These songs were premiered during the week-long Metallica 30th anniversary celebration at the Fillmore in San Francisco.

  1. Hate Train
  2. Just A Bullet Away
  3. Hell And Back
  4. Rebel Of Babylon

 

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iTunes Match, a $24.99 Question. November 14, 2011

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Apple finally launches iTunes Match two weeks after the “late October” date as mentioned in the “Let’s talk iPhone” event. iTunes Match costs $24.99 annually in the US.

How does iTunes Match work?
Well, iTunes scans the music in your iTunes library and matches them to the ones available in the iTunes Store. iTunes also uploads “unmatched” audio tracks (not just songs, but any audio tracks) from your iTunes Library into your iCloud account.

What you need to know about iTunes Match:

You can find a lot of articles about iTunes Match including the one from Apple Support. Some of you want to know the answer to the $24.99 question. Is iTunes Match worth it?

First, it costs $24.99 for one year. That’s pretty cheap.

Second, once I had iTunes Match I found it to be really convenient. I can easily access my song library on my computers, iPhone and iPad. Well, my HP TouchPad, Android phone and tablet have to take a backseat since they are not supported.

Third, I still purchased CD. Over the years, I ripped the CD’s into AAC and MP3 in various quality. Once I had them matched, I get a music library with consistent encoding quality. That is great considering I had a lot of 128kbps MP3 tracks.

The answer is simple, if you can spare $24.99 a year then you should have no problem trying out iTunes Match.

Remember that iTunes doesn’t have those obscured live bootleg tracks you love so much. iTunes will upload them and it might take some times depending on your internet upload speed.

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Apple Lossless Audio Codec is now an Open Source Project. October 27, 2011

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Apple Lossless Audio Codec is now Open Source Project as reported by many. It is available under Apache license.

At first I thought:

Apple Free LossLess Audio Codec (AFLAC)
Wait a minute, it sounds just like Aflac.

There is also FLAC Project.

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