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Winamp was one of the if not the first MP3 player I used back in the Rise of MP3 Days. Just today I learned that AOL, who purchased Winamp back in June 1999, is shutting down Winamp.com on December 20, 2013. Winamp software will be subsequently discontinued and no longer be available for download.
I have not used Winamp for years, yet it is still nostalgic.
It has been a long goodbye.
From Amazon.com:
Introducing AutoRip
Buy a CD, instantly get the MP3 version for FREE.
The idea has been floating around for years. Artists and fans can really benefit from this especially in combatting leaks. Often times, records were leaked without permissions months before the release date. Artists (and record labels) can send the digital version to pre-order customers early.
The best part about Amazon AutoRip:
Past Amazon CD Purchases
MP3 versions of tracks from CDs purchased from Amazon since 1998 and that are eligible for AutoRip will be delivered to your Cloud Player library. For some albums you purchased in the past, we may have added MP3 versions of some but not all of the tracks on the album, depending on track eligibility for AutoRip. The first time you sign in to Cloud Player for Web after the launch of the AutoRip program you will see a message indicating that the MP3 versions of eligible tracks from your past Amazon CD purchases are being placed into your Cloud Player library.
I have been buying CD’s from Amazon.com since 1998. This is going to be exciting.
Amazon introduces Cloud Drive and Cloud Player, for Web and Android.
Features:
Set aside the whole licensing issue that Record Labels might bring up, Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player are great for consumer. Amazon can sweeten the deal by selling CD+MP3 together. If you bought the CD+MP3 bundle, you could listen the songs instantly. In addition to that, this would give consumer more incentive for pre-order and react instantly whenever CD’s are leaked on the Internet.
Now, what about other platform, Amazon?
iPod was introduced at Apple Cupertino Campus Town Hall on October 23rd, 2001.
iPod was a different breed of portable digital music player. It utilized FireWire connectivity and the revolutionary control wheel which later redesinged into the ClickWheel.
Monday June 7th, 2010 was full of announcements and mostly from Apple with its iPhone 4. At the same time I remembered that Iron Maiden, the legendary Heavy Metal band also had an announcement.
Iron Maiden 15th studio album “The Final Frontier” is scheduled for release Monday August 16th, 2010.
Iron Maiden have made special arrangements for one new album track ‘EL DORADO’ to be made available Worldwide as a FREE digital download MP3. Click here for the free download, as long as you’re not from The U.S.A. because U.S. fans have their own special link.
Iron Maiden will be kicking off THE FINAL FRONTIER 2010 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR with special hippie guest Dream Theater on June 9th, 2010. Check the tour schedule here.
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“Endgame” is now streaming in its entirety at Megadeth’s MySpace.
(Roadrunner Records News)
“Endgame” is also available for pre-order at Amazon.com.
Megadeth‘s “Endgame” track listing:
“Endgame” is Megadeth twelfth studio album and is due on September 15th, 2009.
Go on and write me up for 125
Post my face, wanted dead or alive
Take my license n’ all that jive
’cause I can’t drive…….
“I Can’t Drive 55” by Sammy Hagar
“I Can’t Drive 55” was lead track and Single off Sammy Hagar’s 1984 “VOA” album.
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About the picture:
I was having a late lunch/early dinner at “Farmer Boys” and the number I got was 55. The first thing came to mind was the song.