J. Frank Wilson

Interview with Jimmy LaValle from The Album Leaf

J. Frank Wilson on Sep 30, 2004 (Updated: Jan 14, 2021)

The Album Leaf is the solo project of Jimmy LaValle, a San Diego-based songwriter and former member of the post-rock band Tristeza. In the fall of …

J. Frank Wilson on Sep 29, 2004 (Updated: Mar 3, 2015)

This is a first. Anyone can get a short text message engraved on the back of their iPod (unless it gets rejected by Apple). But the days of lame text …

J. Frank Wilson on Sep 29, 2004

“Toshiba is releasing four new portable digital music devices — one boasting a 60 GB capacity — to rival Apple’s. The Gigabeat …

J. Frank Wilson on Sep 28, 2004

“Future DVDs could hold 100 times more information than current discs.” “Imperial College London researchers in the UK are …

J. Frank Wilson on Sep 27, 2004 (Updated: May 21, 2020)

Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group Ltd. became the latest company to enter the digital music market and try to de-throne Apple’s popular …

J. Frank Wilson on Sep 26, 2004 (Updated: Jun 19, 2015)

Many companies have tried (yeah Sony we’re talking about you), but none of them have succeeded in displacing the iPod from our list of must-have …

J. Frank Wilson on Sep 24, 2004 (Updated: May 31, 2019)

Good news for digital music fans. All future and current Sony hardware will now support the MP3. It looks like forcing consumers to adopt the Sony …

J. Frank Wilson on Sep 23, 2004 (Updated: Jul 11, 2011)

For all of you Apple history buffs, the iPod's scroll wheel has been through 3 iterations since the 1G iPod was released in 2001. The first one …

J. Frank Wilson on Sep 22, 2004 (Updated: May 28, 2015)

If you’re like me, you want to put as music music on your iPod as possible. I’ve ripped most of my CDs at 128 or 160 kbps. It sounds good …

J. Frank Wilson on Sep 22, 2004 (Updated: Oct 2, 2010)

Have you ever gotten that bad sinking feeling when you think you've lost something? What about your iPod? David, a friend of ours who works down the …

J. Frank Wilson on Sep 21, 2004 (Updated: Mar 3, 2015)

“While Japan is famous for video games and is the second-largest market for Apple’s Macintosh, it is not the land of the rising sun for …