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The premise of Microsoft’s newly-released music making application is simple - you just sing into your PC’s microphone and Songsmith analyzes your song’s notes to create a background track.  If you’d like to see all the ways you can use this power for evil, watch the video after the jump.

I’m going to warn you before you even get a chance to click the play button - in my eyes, this ad is already an early contender for “Worst Ad of the Year” in 2009.  What you’re about to watch is so gosh-darn wholesome it’s borderline criminal.  It may make you very uncomfortable.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

 

SRS Labs has released a couple of products today - the iWOW Adapter for the iPod and the iWOW Premium Software for iTunes on Mac and PC. Both offerings rely on patented SRS audio technologies that result in improved audio quality to increase your enjoyment of your digital music collection that are stored on both your iPod and iTunes library. The iWOW Adapter for the iPod will hook up to the iPod’s dock connector and requires a simple push of the button to work, being comaptible with all iPods thanks to its 30 pin connector. As for the iWOW Premium for iTunes plugin, it offers an “intuitive, high end user interface” that “provides the ability to personalize acoustic preferences with an array of music and video presets, like rock, classical, jazz, blues, country and more” You will be able to pick up the iWOW Adapter and iWOW Premium for iTunes for $79.99 and $49.99, respectively, while both are available as a bundle for $99.99.