Category Archives: Music

Logic Studio

By Eric Peacock | Published: October 24, 2007

Even with Apple’s OS X 10.5 Leopard arriving this Friday, I’ve been completely preoccupied with the new Logic Studio which shipped a month or so ago.I only got my copy recently, so I’m still only getting into it. I’m still a Digital Performer user too, but already I’ve explored the various ways to interchange multitrack [...]

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Audio Production Guidlines

By Eric Peacock | Published: July 3, 2007

Good reading for managers and production folks who deal with film, video or any multimedia: An Open Letter From Your Sound Department The Fifteen Comandments For Sound and Picture Part 1 The Fifteen Comandments For Sound and Picture Part 2

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AAC, The iPod, Apple and You.

By Eric Peacock | Published: April 10, 2007

John Gruber dissects a topic that I’ve long had to defend or explain verbally many times in his post Some Facts About AAC. There is a huge misinformation cloud around the idea that Apple is forcing a proprietary standard on iPod users with AAC (the DRM is proprietary, the format isn’t Apple’s). For me the [...]

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Apple TV

By Eric Peacock | Published: March 22, 2007

After all the hype built up, the Apple TV is shipping and reviews are popping up all over the web. NYT’s David Pogue summarizes: Apple TV offers a gracious, delightful experience — but requires fidelity to Apple’s walled garden. Negative factors are also summarized by Gizmodo. The consensus is that it’s a pretty weak product, [...]

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Help Me Somebody Remixed

By Eric Peacock | Published: February 10, 2007

About a year ago Brian Eno & David Byrne re-released their remastered My Life In The Bush of Ghosts on CD which I happily purchased to replace my original CD and have been enjoying ever since. To coincide with the re-release they also opened up two of the tracks for remixing, providing source tracks and [...]

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Steve Jobs on Music and Digital Rights Management

By Eric Peacock | Published: February 6, 2007

Well worth a look is a “news” item apparently written by Mr. Steve Jobs of Apple, Inc. that discloses his thoughts on the digital music industry and DRM issues surrounding it. Thoughts on Music This is a nice response to the ongoing comments on digg or other social networking sites that seem to blame Apple [...]

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The Zune Brand Fails To Impress

By Eric Peacock | Published: November 17, 2006

Reviewers, trolls, iPod fanboys and the ‘net in general have been talking about the new Microsoft Zune player all week – that is until the Sony Playstation 3 launch occurred. Back to the Zune though – the reviews have continued to be not entirely positive though the player is obviously not a complete piece of [...]

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Neon Brown Music Video on YouTube

By Eric Peacock | Published: September 7, 2006

Well, I gave in and decided to try posting the previously mentioned Neon Brown Static music video on YouTube. You can see it in glorious Flash video here.

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