Helio Player Released

Helio Player lets you manage your favorite songs, videos and pics on your PC. Helio Player also includes the Helio Music Store with music from thousands of your favorite artists.

• Download a free copy of songs you buy on your device
• Buy songs + full albums for your PC and device
• Gift songs to a friend’s Helio or Beg them to buy one for you
• Manage and play your music, videos and pics
• Transfer music + videos to your Heat, Drift or Fin
• Transfer music, video and pics to/from your Ocean

The Pirate Bay Goes Web 2.0

The Pirate Bay has a new feature: click on an audio torrent and (in some cases) you’ll get an option to view “detailed artist info”, which brings a neat list of albums and songs by that artist, a tag cloud of related artists, and an embedded Last.FM radio widget which lets you listen to the artist right on the spot.

iTunes Plus Price Drop Confirmed for Today or Tomorrow

Ars Technica first reported yesterday that Apple was ready to lower the price of iTunes Plus tracks from $1.29 for the DRM free music to $.99 which puts it in line with the pricing on the DRM laden tracks in the rest of the iTunes Store. Steve Jobs, and you can't get a better source than that, has confirmed with the Wall Street Journal that this will be happening either today or tomorrow. On Top of that iTunes Plus Now Offers Over Two Million Tracks.

iTunes 7.2 Bring DRM-Free Goodness

With iTunes 7.2 you can preview and purchase iTunes Plus music (the new higher-quality, DRM-free music downloads) from participating music labels. However the iTunes Store doesnt seem to have this music available yet.

Web Tools: Media Applications

Kevin and Olivia get you in tune with your media savvy self with a little help from the web

Limited Edition Adult Swim Zune

For all those Venture Brothers, Aqua Teen, Sea Lab, Harvey Birdman, and Robot Chicken nerds whose hearts just skipped a beat, steel yourself. While Microsoft is indeed producing a limited edition Adult Swim version of the Zune, when we say it's limited edition, we mean it: only 500 are being made, and will be given away at a Turner promotional event tonight. Obviously these units will have pre-loaded content, including photos, music, and, naturally, such classic shows as Assy McGee, Metalocalypse (rawk), and even a new program titled Lucy, Daughter of the Devil (on screen).

Zune 2.0 Rumors

The second full-sized Zune and its flash counterpart will both be out this year. The full-size Zune will look aesthetically similar and have the doubleshot plastics, but will be a bit thinner. The flash device will be video capable and have a large display that "covers about 75% of the [face]", while staying about 3 x 1.25 x 0.25-inches in size. Even though the flash-based device will have the same (lame) WiFi, Microsoft's expecting to pump out 2.4 million next-gen Zune devices before holidays 2007.

X-Play: Guitar Hero 360 Review

The hardest rocking guitar-based game in the universe finally comes to the XBox 360.

EMI DRM Free Tracks on iTunes

Not only will EMI songs be DRM free, but they will also be available at twice the bitrate of other songs on iTunes. There is a catch though, single DRM free tracks will cost $1.29 per single, however, the lower bitrate version will still be available for $.99. As another bonus, the album and music video price will not change and stay at the current $9.99 and $1.99, and you will be able to "upgrade" your current tracks for $.30. These service will be made available this May.

Incase you're wondering, a few EMI artists are Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Gorillaz, Radiohead, and The Rolloing Stones.

FoxyTunes Planet

Want a ton of info on your music? Just search for an artist (or browse by genres) and FoxyTunes Planet delivers a page of widgets: downloads from iTunes, lyrics from LyricWiki, photos from Flickr, videos from YouTube, streaming tracks from Last.fm and Pandora, search results from Google and so on.

Video: Super Mario Theme...With Lyrics!

Did you know the Super Mario Bros. theme has lyrics? Of course, the theme is apparently called "Go Go Mario". The video clip was taken from the "Mario and Zelda Big Band live" concert that was held on September 14th, 2003 at the Nihon Seinenkan Hall in Tokyo, Japan. View the article for the lyrics.

Finetune

Finetune is an online service that lets you to create multiple playlists of 45 songs and will allow you to embed that playlist into any website. If your having trouble creating your playlist, the service will suggest other artist based on the music you've already chosen. This site also has quite a few internet radio stations for your listening pleasure. Nice.

Video: Will Ferrell And Jack Black At The Oscars

The Loop: Can the RIAA End Music Piracy?

Kevin, Patrick Ross and Derek Slater discuss the RIAA’s legal action against colleges and their students

The Loop: Will Apple Kill DRM?

Kevin, Veronica Belmont and Michael Bebel debate the issues revolving around digital music and DRM

X-Play: A Scene from X-Play The Musical

Download the whole episode via BitTorrent here.

Songs from iPod Commercials

A list of all the songs used in the iPod commercials with iTunes links.

Video: Musical Kitchen

MyTunesRSS

MyTunesRSS allows you to access the music and videos from your iTunes library over a local network or the internet. It will let you open an m3u playlist in any application that supports it and will even let you download whole playlists or individual songs or videos. Super simple to use. The only bad thing is you cant play songs or video threw your web browser you need an external application like iTunes, Media Player, or WinAmp.

Print CD, DVD, and Game Covers

Makes your pirated media collection even better.