One of the musicians that I listen to a lot is Craig David, I still listen to his first CD from 2000 every once in a while. He is an extremely talented musician with many different skills, the one thing that I find very is when he sings an acoustic song, he has the ability to make it even better then the mixed song.

This CD is his latest iteration from his musical talents, I wasn’t too impressed with his second and third Album, his first Album was the best, but this Album is a really good job with different flavors of music, you really feel like he has spread his wing with this one. Its not his usual music, you can tell that he is still applying his style but it has developed in a good way.

Favorite Songs:

• Friday Night
• Officially Yours
• Just A Reminder
• This Is The Girl

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Since purchasing my iRiver Clix2 I have been sorting out the music in my mp3 player. I have been doing a decent job of organizing the music on my computer but there are probably lots of duplicates in different hard drives, but the one thing I have decided to do at least for you mp3 player is to adjust the ID3 tags to reflect the correct information.

I tried a few different softwares but nothing really managed the music correctly and easily, until I stumbled onto MediaMonkey thanks to Lifehacker. This software does a really good job of music library management, and fixing ID3 tags with a little help from the user.

You can batch edit ID3 tags if they are from the same Album to get all the Album Art, they get all the Album Art from Amazon and you can get the ID3 information from Amazon as well as FreeDB. It is a bit of tedious process but once its all done you do a lot of music organized with a lot of the Album Art attached to your music, and I really do enjoy having all my music organized, so at this point I’m going to have to do that for all my music. For a about 100 songs it took me about an hour and half, it would easily take a couple of days for all the songs that I have. There are two version available the free and the pay version, the free version is perfectly good to organize all the music you have so need to go for the pay version and it can integrate with many different music players, but I still prefer to drop the music into the player myself.

Link: LifeHacker

The first time I heard Gym Class Heroes was a couple of months back, and then I started searching for the CD but it was sold out at every location I checked. I managed to find their Album was available as MP3 download (DRM-Free) so I got that for only $9.99 which is worth it for this Album

I managed to download their Album, I listened to the music the first time and I thought it was fresh. Its really different and I really do enjoy the combination of the beats and songs, they seem true to what they do and the music is mixed between hip hop and rock. There are a lot of good songs, just depends on what you want to listen to. If you are looking for something different then this is the music you should check out.

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I’m taking a look at a few options right now for an MP3 player, and I want to get one right away. What I’m looking for is simple but not all MP3 players can satisfy my requirements but I have found two that can do the job.

The Options:

• iRiver Clix 8 GB Gen2
• Creative Zen V Plus

What I’m looking for:

• Charge through USB
• Drag and Drop music without a software to integrate
• Creating Playlists
• Different types of Random play, not just the general random
• Clear loud Music
• Long Lasting Battery
• Flash Drive
• Friendly User Interface
• Not Big

The only issue I have is that the iRiver isn’t available for me to try out but I keep reading good reviews about it, and I can’t go too long without an Mp3 Player.

Usually when I walk around Virgin I always pick up a few things that I forget that I want. And its good to see something you were expecting to find. The one thing that I wanted but was sold out almost everywhere was Gym Class Heroes. Virgin Dubai is as fun as always to walk around in, the only thing that is a bit annoying is that all the XBox 360 games are pal and not ntsc, but then I realized I only missed playing Halo 3 and no other game was worth it.

DVDs:

• A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
• Fantastic Four – Rise of the Silver Surfer

CDs:

• Twista – Adrenaline Rush 2007
• Shamillianaire – Ultimate Victory
• Linkin Park – Minutes to Midnight
• hedkandi – Disco Heaven
• hedkandi -Beach Angel 2007

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The RIAA has been chasing after innocent users and serving them lawsuits for their peer-to-peer activity. The funny part is that RIAA doesn’t even know how many download from a person they just know that the person is distributing something. The information on their side is limited they are just trying to discourage users from sharing but this has been a losing battle. The RIAA has admitted that this is a losing battle for them and they haven’t gain anything from it.

They haven’t really discourage people from sharing they are finding a different way around it, and they are making any money off of the lawsuits either. They spend much more on lawyers, consul, and consultants then they even come close to gaining from winning the lawsuits. I don’t know when they will get the idea, but read the Arstechnica article its a very interesting read.

Link: Arstechnica

It seems since Amazon has started offering DRM Free music the other companies are following in their foot steps. Microsoft has started offering DRM Free music on their platform SURGE/Zune software. This is going to be interesting for most of the media companies since this isn’t the way they want it to go, they will notice people purchasing DRM Free music by the truck load and DRM Music will not be purchased. Hopefully this trend continues and the major labels capitulate to DRM Free Music.

I will stick to my Amazon purchases for all my music needs since I’m comfortable with it.

Link: BoingBoing

People have always said its difficult managing music, and this is with only a few Gigabytes worth of music, maybe even 20 or 50 Gigabytes. What would you do if you had over a Terabyte worth of music. It seems Qsonix have thought about it and they have developed a product specifically for that application and more. The is a fully featured music management system with all the possible options possible. This product is engineered to make music management as easy as possible with all the features you could want, the best part is integration capabilities.

Features:

• Touch-screen music management system, GUI is very simple and user friendly.
• Takes care of your archives.
• Control four zones independently with their own tunes, volume and other settings.
• Recommends and builds custom play lists based on moods and themes.
• It automatically retrieves of album art and liner notes.
• Transfers music to and from any iPod product automatically as well as any MP3 player.
• Can automicatlly convert iTunes format to MP3 and back.
• Will automatically rip from any audio CD and retrieve album art and liner notes for, as well as ripping from compilation CDs and letting you assign the correct information for it.
• Can rip to different quality of music such as: CD Quality Lossless Compression, High Quality (320 Kbps), or Normal Quality (192 Kbps).
• Can integrate into home automation system, or remain as standalone system to integrate into any speaker system.
• Fast Preview – Can preview music without interrupting playlists.

Who said the best doesn’t come for a price.

Price: $5900 – $7900 (250 GB – 1 TB)

Link: Crave.net

This is the type of product I have been waiting for, a major site which provides DRM-Free Music. Amazon will be turning things around for sure, and they will be providing another source of music for the iTunes crowd. They have done well to keep things simple and easy to use, and I have been using their downloader which just downloads it to a specific folder or syncs it with iTunes or Windows Media Player if you want.

I have been trying it out and the quality of music is fantastic, I have been buying old songs which I have been searching for such as Jodeci and other artist. The quality of the songs is fantastic even for the old school songs. Hope more labels will provide their music to Amazon, and they can throw their wait around a bit to get people to join.

Link: AmazonMp3

During any holiday trip there is always a couple of songs which I really like and get repeated during that vacation. Its a list of four to five songs which really gets me going while driving and riding since I was doing a lot of that while I was in the states.

• Kanye – Stronger
• Timbaland – The Way I Are
• T-Pain ft. Akon – Bartender
• Baby Bash ft. T-Pain – Cyclone
• Chris Brown ft. T-Pain – Kiss Kiss
• One Chance ft. Akon – Private
• Rihanna – Push Up On Me
• Plies ft. T-Pain – Shawty
• Rihanna – Shut Up And Drive
• Justin Timberlake ft. Stat Qou – Summer Love (Remix)
• Rihanna ft. Tupac – We Ride

You can download all the music as one zipped file from MediaFire at this link.

The new Kanye and 50 Cent CDs have been released and I recommend downloading both since both are really really good. You download both Albums from Ananyah right here.