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Unify: Sync or Move Music from iTunes into Your Spotify Account

Steven Finch — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:53:14 +0000

Someone has finally produced a great app that lets you move your library from iTunes over to Spotify. The app is call Unify and its built on Adobe Air so it can be used on both Mac and PC. Once installed it only takes a matter of seconds before you have selected the playlist you’re wanting to import into Spotify and Unify does all the heavy lifting.

You can either transfer a specific album or track or just drag and drop everything in your library. You’ll notice a nice little orange album icon. This area displays all the albums your iTunes Library. Just drag them over to Spotify the same as you do with tracks.

Now, don’t expect to find every track in your iTunes library on Spotify. Spotify is very good and you’d be hard pressed to not find a song, but clearly it doesn’t have everything.

Free for 5 tracks from each playlists, but for an unlimited number of tracks, you’ll set yourself back only £1.99 (approx $3 US), peanuts really for the availability of your favorite music everywhere.

Grab the app here.

Michael Jackson Controling iTunes Top 100 Tracks

Steven Finch — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:47:12 +0000

Following the death of Michael Jackson the iTunes charts have been flooded with his tracks. Out of the top 10 tracks on iTunes Michael Jackson has 8 of them. Plus he has 11 tracks in the top 15 and 14 in the top 20. Michael Jackson was struggling financially for a long time before his death and maybe now his death is going to be a resurgance of his music and the real money making machine that was Michael Jackson.

I also know that Michael Jackson used to own the copyrights to the Beatles catalogue, but I wonder if this is still the case and know who will own that catalogue?

Timecamp: Keep Track of Your Employees Time

Steven Finch — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:23:17 +0000

Are you an employee looking to keep track of your employees time? Are you trying to work out how to best optimise the time of your employees, because they are your largest overhead? Well introducing Timecamp. Timecamp is a new tracking tool that seems to be very similar to Basecamp but for employee tracking. It’s like history book or google analytics, but works with people’s time. Increase team productivity, eliminate “time killers”, get more done and stay focused.

The service seems very straight forward and also seems to be a relatively new startup. Im not so keen on it being so closely based to Basecamp, but it is a simply idea with a simple solution. Currently the have a free pricing for individual users, but also a $8 per month pricing for any other additional users you want to add to the system.

If you have used Timecamp it would be great to hear your feedback.

Grooveshark With An Idea I Think Just Wont Work!

Steven Finch — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:24:30 +0000

P2P music sharing and sales service Grooveshark has raised their level of compensation for sharing music from 10 cents to 25 cents a track, their entire profit on each sale. Users upload their music to Grooveshark, and any member can listen to those tracks for free. If they want to download a song, they can purchase it DRM free and the user who uploaded the song gets a cut of the sale; previously this was 10c and now its 25c. The remainer of the 99c sale goes to the record companies; the service is legal and Grooveshark has agreements with the record companies to provide the service and to cover copyright obligations.

I dont see how this program can actually succeed! I really need someone from Grooveshark to explain to me the finer details. As far as i know it runs the same as any other P2P, where companies and users each run their files from a folder on their computer and thus allowing other users to purchase audio tracks, movies, etc. How is Grooveshark going to monitor copyrights on songs for example, because i know a lot of people out there have illegally downloaded songs on their computer and if they are in the same folder that Grooveshark is using how will they track it all and keep control? Especially also considering a user could change the name of the songs in their folder and then make it more suceptable to being accepted at owning a copyright.

Finally, why would i want to purchase from a P2P network when currently I can head over to LimeWire and get it all for nothing??