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...disarmingly simple concept: sell songs in digital format for less than a buck and let buyers play them whenever and wherever they like--as long as it's on an Apple iPod. Jobs had proved the idea back in April when he launched the Music Store for Mac users, who represent only 3% of the computer world but promptly gobbled up a million tracks in the first week of business. By October he was ready to set the Music Store aloft in the 97% of the world that uses Windows PCs, and the prospect of converting millions of music pirates...
...major labels and thousands of independents. His iTunes software, which had previously been nothing more than a place to store and play digital music on a Mac, would become a gateway to the Music Store, where you could easily find and save music to your hard drive, CD or iPod music player--no subscription necessary, just 99˘ per song, or $9.99 for an album. Competitors tried to match that price but couldn't come up with a service as free of restrictions. They said Jobs had been given a sweet deal by the labels because Apple, with its minuscule share...
With the shift to electronic music distribution, album art has suffered yet another indignity. If it is attached to songs at all, it is shrunk even further, stuck in one corner of your computer screen. If you listen to music on your iPod or other digital device, you don’t even have that option, though the art may still take up precious space...
Using your portable jukebox just to listen to music is so five minutes ago. Two new accessories from Belkin let iPod owners linked to Mac or Windows systems use their music player to record voice memos and store digital photos. Snap the Voice Recorder ($50) onto your iPod, and the software (included in iPod's free 2.1 update) automatically launches, letting you make voice recordings that you can play back through the tiny speaker. The Media Reader ($99) is a lifesaver for photo buffs who travel light. Plug it into the iPod, slide in your camera's memory card...
Reporting from a war zone may be the toughest assignment a journalist can get. Along with the flak jacket and the satellite phone, music?an iPod, Walkman or just a noisy singalong?can be a war correspondent's best friend. Here are a few tunes that have given our reporters a respite while covering Iraq...