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From Mark Harris, your Guide to Digital Music

In this week's edition of the Digital Music newsletter:

  • Universal Music Group Loses Legal Battle With Dancing Baby: In the Digital Music world this week, read how one of the big four music labels, UMG, took on a dancing baby in the courts -- and lost.
  • How to Copy a Music CD: If you've got a collection of original music CDs that you still want to play, but need to protect from damage (such as scratches), then creating backup copies is a good solution. For more information, be sure to follow our CDBurnerXP tutorial on how to use this free program to duplicate your original CDs.
  • Free Music Albums: In our regular free music slot this week , we showcase the group, Pretty Lights, who are offering up several albums for free download.


Universal Music Group Loses Legal Battle With Dancing Baby

Even though Universal Music Group (UMG) has annouced an 8.4% increase in its digital music sales this week, this financial achievement has been somewhat eclipsed by news in the blogsphere that it has been defeated by a dancing... Read more


How to Copy a Music CD: Protect Your Original CDs

If you still enjoy using audio CDs and want to protect your collection of originals from damage (scratches etc.), then creating backup copies is a good solution. This short CD copying tutorial shows you how to use the free CDBurnerXP program to quickly duplicate a music CD. Read more


Free Music Albums: Pretty Lights Offer Free EPs

Colorado-based Pretty Lights (aka Derek Vincent Smith), has announced a trilogy of EPs due for release in 2010. The first album, Making Up a Changing Mind, is already available (released March 2) and can be downloaded from the official Website. Even though Pretty Lights' albums can be downloaded for free... Read more


Digital Music Formats 101
Are you confused about all the different music formats out there? Find out what the differences are, their strengths and weaknesses and how it will influence your decision when downloading music from the Internet.

 


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