Teenager sends MP3s to Space Station

VNUnet - Astronauts on the International Space Station will shortly be receiving an MP3 player sent up by a 14 year-old Norwegian girl after she won a competition organised by the European Space Agency . Therese Miljeteig won the ESA’s Automated Transfer

Further down the spiral
Salon - The Lisbon and Madrid drives contained MP3s of the track “My Violent Heart,” which promptly hit the Internet. The Barcelona drive contained the track “Me, I’m Not” and an MP3 of static, which, when subjected to spectrogram analysis(!), revealed a

Carbon/Silicon performs live from SXSW
Minnesota Public Radio - The creation of the band was sparked by the changing dissemination of music via the internet, MP3s, burning CDs, and peer-to-peer networks. They see these changes as a savior to creativity rather than its demise. And that’s where their name comes

January 2003
Out-Law - claims for up to $1.1 billion KaZaA can be sued in the US, says court Digital copyright law applied to printer cartridge lawsuit Hong Kong law accused of censoring internet HP attacked for hiring litigant as consultant ISP told to banish users and MP3s

Dr. Dog fan Lou Reed at SXSW
Philadelphia Inquirer - That’s where the money is.” And as an audiophile, he held forth on the MP3-ization of the listening experience. “With MP3s, there’s a lot available, and it sounds bad.

Convert CDs to MP3s to WAV files
Orlando Sentinel - Download Apple’s free iTunes software from startribune.com/a4048 and use it to import your CDs as MP3 files. You can find out how to do that at startribune.com/a4049 or star tribune.com/a4052. To convert MP3 files to WAV, burn the songs to a CD using

Patrick Barnard
TMCnet - Most consumers succumbed to the power of digital music formats long ago. But now Numark is looking to breathe new life into your old vinyl collection. You now rip them directly to MP3s on your computer with Numark’s USB-enabled turntable. (March 5

Posts in Internet
CNet - Baidu.com, the top Chinese search engine, gets lots of its traffic from a service that tracks and links to MP3s , most of which are illegally posted. Now a Chinese music industry group is suing the site over alleged copyright violation. The AP reports :

Nine Inch Nails Sells Out Of $300 Deluxe Edition In Under Two Days
Tech Dirt - From Mp3s,albums to music videos. They are Free. We keep nothing. Fans benefit, artists benefit and control their profits. Vinyl and CD’s are old school. The evolution of music is here. James McPeak, Co-Founder

Computerworld ’s big guide to USB peripherals
Computerworld - That’s big enough for files, applications, a Linux distro, even a few movies and a whole lotta MP3s. If you want to carry around dozens of gigabytes, and access it away from a wall outlet, bus-powered pocket USB hard drives have gone below the dollar