Pandora’s Box: No need for a browser to listen to music

Pandora’s box

We have always found it a little annoying to have to have a browser open to listen music via Pandora. This piece of software allows Pandora users to login to their Pandora account and access the streaming music service without having to open a web browser.

We were suprised to find out that Pandora’s Box was created in 2005, that is becasuse we had not come across it. But we fell in love with it at first sight. The program has support for Quick Mix, lets users give songs a thumbs up or down and offers the same features found on Pandora.com.

In the future we hope that the creator makes it more memory efficient and also support for Mac would be nice for Mac users. Overall we found this program to be a must have for all Pandora users.

Over 2 million DRM-free Music tracks on iTunes

iTunes Store

Apple now has over 2 Million Tracks for you to download from expanding its catalog of unencrypted music.

Apple can now legitimately claim to have the largest library of DRM-free music available online. For a some time Amazon has been in the lead, but Apple has caught up. And while there are still a number of major record labels that are not providing DRM-free tracks through any service, it warms our hearts to see a price war between two industry giants battling to offer high quality unencrypted tracks to music fans.

Apple’s DRM-free tracks are all AAC files encoded at 256kbps. New labels offering DRM-free music include Sub Pop, Nettwerk, Beggars Group, IODA, and The Orchard.

Via Apple