History of sound recording from Edison to MP3. Covers the technologies of sound recording, their impact on culture, and the business of making and selling recorders and recordings.
Provides general information about this audio format, its history, related codecs and their comparison, as well as several external links to developer web sites, encoders and decoders and third party softwares.
Electronic dance music, such as techno, house, drum and bass, electro, but also less club-orientated stuff like trip hop, dub and electroacoustic or electronic listening music.
Just days after punk band The Offspring began selling unauthorized Napster merchandise through its website, the two parties choose collaboration instead of litigation. [Wired News]