The Spice Girls don't want DRM

Well, in reality I don't know exactly the Spice Girls' position on DRM, if they're even aware that it exists.

But you can now buy the Spice Girls' Greatest Hits album from their website; at 320kbps MP3! That's right, no DRM, no conversion necessary! I know that the Girls are with EMI, so even on the iTunes Music Store it wouldn't have DRM, but it's a pleasant surprise for them to be using MP3, as many MP3 players don't play AAC. And the high bitrate is excellent.

Then, the Spice Girls have very loyal fans who will buy the album and won't pirate it. That's something you can't say about the fans of many other groups.

In other news, Blacklight2 is coming along nicely. I removed quite a few bugs and successfully used it to copy existing MP3s to my MP3 player. I also added the (completely untested) Post-Process Plugin (PPP) support. Maybe later today I will write an "EasyTag" PPP, which invokes the EasyTag id3 tagger. And I'll have to test the other functions of Blacklight2.

I don't remember if I mentioned it before, but I solved the synchronisation bug in the original Blacklight, and uploaded the new version to Sourceforge. I'm still using Blacklight1 to encode my video files until Blacklight2 is tested and ready.