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EMI CMG / Sparrow Records’ internationally renowned band, newsboys, is offering its new bonus rock song, ‘isaiah,’ exclusively at iTunes.com.

Available for a limited time beginning today, customers purchasing the band’s acclaimed and recently released album, devotion, from iTunes can download “isaiah” for free. For more information and to download the free iTunes player, visit www.iTunes.com.

Ogg Vorbis Encoding

Absolutely free and open sound compression. Better sound quality than mp3 - take the test. Smaller size than mp3 for equivalent compression quality. Royalty-free encoding algorithm. Alien-esque cool name. You just can’t beat it. For those who have stayed on top of audio and compression, ogg is no secret. Still, many people haven’t heard of it - or aren’t using it. You should be! I highly recommend it… even if you want to replace all your mp3s! Download the tools, you’ll need to get started. Or you can download CDex - a free audio ripper tool that rips/compresses straight to ogg (as well as many other formats including mp3, wav, etc…).

The down side… there aren’t currently any hardware ogg players that I’m aware of. But I understand that they are in development.

And as a bonus: if you like recording music/sound… check out Audacity - a free, multitrack audio recording program that supports ogg directly. Who says you can’t get anything good for free these days!?!