Recently I purchased, brand new, a complete set of the Haydn symphones on compact discs, for £24.  Haydn symphonies last around twenty minutes each, usually a bit more, and there are over a hundred of them, so that’s about thirty hours or more of music.  Yet I only purchased eight CDs. The secret was that they were stored not as on regular CDs, but as high quality MP3 files, which...

I finally got round to having a cool radio/CD/MP3 player installed in the car (£90 including fitting at Halfords, very efficient) and slapped in a CD with 200 MP3 tracks on it. Hurray! Only some of them didn't play. Boo! Why? Because a recent update to iTunes has reset the default in Preferences/Importing from 'MP3' to 'AAC', which won't work on a player set up ...

I used to wonder how John Prescott made it so high up in the Labour party but I wonder no longer, he really is an effective communicator. Perhaps not, techinically speaking, a quality one but certainly effective. On the Today show you would think he would have had a tough ride but he fought Gordon Brown's corner manfully, coming up with some fairly plausible routes for the PM to get to some s...

The European Commission is calling for a suggested maximum volume to be set on MP3 players, to protect users' hearing.

Between 2006 and 2009, Daventry District Council has improved the quality of service delivered to residents and local businesses by 10% following the creation of a new One Stop Shop and an enhanced Contact Centre facility.

THE European Union plans to introduce volume restrictions for MP3 players in new legislation.

For some time there has been conversation about the need to look at the Quality and Engagement of audiences for media websites. This article looks at one of the data items available via the Quantcast.com service, which segments your audience by loyalty. The free service can also identify which organisations and businesses are sending visitors to a website. I look at the data for national newspaper...

Efficiency gains of up to £20bn can be made without affecting the service received by patients of the National Health Service, a consultant argues

Those of us who listen to MP3s on our mobile phones or in the car, have been poorly served by the music download industry so far. Digital rights protection has been a right pain, so I’ve been buying music on CDs I never listen to, just rip to MP3. Now thanks to Amazon, that’s all

Over at BULS Brigid Jones, the society’s secretary, has been updating her MP3 Player while writing a piece about Bush Music. Below is a song that I would like to recommend her to downloaded for her MP3 Player…Teehe! :-P