Amazon.com music has released a new feature or grouping of music on their website. It’s called “As Heard On”, and the entire section features those songs you’ve probably heard on TV shows, commercials and movies. Many of the songs featured now are the original artists performing those songs you’ve been hearing one of the American Idol contestants singing every week.
Without a doubt a great way for Amazon.com to capitalize on the popularity of American Idol, and continue getting their own piece of the downloaded music marketshare from iTunes and Apple.
Above and beyond American Idol though, how many times have you …read more

I was just starting to get familiar with ODEO when I uncovered the fact that they’ve decided to re-launch and improve themselves again. I’ve been added to their private beta of their effort and from what I can already tell, I like the changes.
Thanks for participating in Odeo’s beta relaunch. You’ll notice we’ve changed a lot of things, including a complete re-design emphasizing search and discovery. We’ll be adding new features and updates, and will be listening to your feedback. Let us know what you like (and what we can do better) to make Odeo an enjoyable media experience.

I …read more

The last few times I’ve tried to update my iPod with iTunes I’ve gotten the following error.

Is it dead? I’ve done a few restores and resets and can’t get it to sync. Although on one hand I’d welcome the need to buy a new 160GB version. On the other hand, I don’t have the $400 to buy it with just laying around.
I’m really behind on my podcasts and kind of irritating since I just bought a new car radio where I can attach the iPod directly.
Anyone that might have an idea of how I can revive it, please let …read more

Does anyone know if there’s any way to subscribe to a podcast with iTunes when the podcast doesn’t exist in the iTunes store?
Can I manually subscribe to a URL of the XML feed somehow?
If anyone out there knows the answer to this question, please let me know quick before I forget what podcast I’m trying to subscribe to and live the rest of my life missing out.