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| I just wanted to share this fantastic Pink Floyd-esque (with a hint of Ozric Tentacles in places) reworking of the Doctor Who theme tune from Traffic Experiment as it doesn’t seem to have been getting the love it so obviously deserves. You can also download this track for free as an MP3 or FLAC at the Traffic Experiment website. I hope you enjoyed this interval, normal service will be resumed shortly.       
Financed through very infrequent and unintrusive ads or a rather expensive £10/month subscription, Spotify is the latest attempt to save the music industry from piracy, and it’s making a big impact. The application is available for Windows or Max OS X and also runs flawlessly under Wine on Linux (which seems to have resulted in no ads at the moment) and mobile versions are in the works. As well as browsing for artists, albums and tracks Spotify also has a radio feature where you can select music by genre and time and it also allows you to share songs and playlists with friends easily. It’s a brilliant way to explore new music and the range available is staggering with a few notable exceptions being The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin (get with it guys!). If you love music you’ve got to try Spotify. Used to buying a music CD, taking it home, playing it on your stereo, playing it in the CD player on your PC, copying to it MP3 and playing it on your portable MP3 player or the MP3 jukebox in your car? Not for much longer, if the record industry gets its way. “Copy controlled” CDs are already on sale in the UK that can’t be played at all on CDROM or DVD drives in PCs, and can’t be converted to MP3 or other electronic formats. In fact, they will only play on ordinary audio CD players. Furthermore, some of these CDs have deliberate errors introduced into the audio data itself to make them harder to copy; these errors also make them more prone to skip or click when scratched in ordinary use. Check out the Campaign for Digital Rights for more info. | 
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