Holiday Gear Guide: Great gifts over $150

Part three of Macworld's 2009 Holiday Gear Guide looks at gifts that cost more than $150 and are worth every penny.

Free (and some not free) live musicMany bands allow people to tape their concerts, sell live recordings of shows, or both. Here are some places to look if you crave the rush of live music.
Review: iPhone ringtone roundupJohn Brandon checks out four iPhone ringtone makers and reports on the good, the bad, and the noisy.

Review: iPhone ringtone roundup John Brandon checks out four iPhone ringtone makers and reports on the good, the bad, and the noisy.
Review: Roth Audio Alfie The Alfie looks pretty, but its high price tag is more a function of its multi-purpose nature than its sound quality.
Review: Crystal Audio Video SSB-1 surround sound bar The Crystal Audio Video SSB-1 surround sound bar is a good-sounding speaker set, but its virtual surround-sound feature doesn't live up to its promise.
Review: Cygnett Maestro iPod speaker dock Average looks aside, the Maestro produces decent audio reproduction from a speaker dock that won’t offend the ears, or for that matter the eyes.
Review: Sonos ZonePlayer S5 Sonos delivers a good-sounding all-in-one wireless audio player.

Copy music off your iPod There's nothing worse than losing your iTunes library to a hard drive crash. If you have music on your iPod, you can at least get it back with the right tools.
Apple, Sonos, or Squeezebox: What's best for getting your audio all over your house? We love Sonos' Digital Music System and Logitech's Squeezebox, but Dan Frakes and Jason Snell set out to determine if they could build a comparable system from AirPort Express units and other Apple gear. Their experiences can help you decide which is the best system for getting your music around your house.
Cleaning an iTunes library Is your iTunes library full of duplicates, tracks from misnamed artists and albums, and albums lacking artwork? These tools can help.
Recording your song on an iPhone As an amateur musician, I’m always looking for ways to get a song from my head into my computer. With Sonoma Wire Works FourTrack, it’s easy to compose an entire song, record the basic parts, and then export the audio to your Mac for further editing.
Eliminating a Word macro virus Rare though they are these days, Word macro viruses are still around. Here are the steps for dealing with them.

The Macalope Weekly: Money, money, money The Zune HD may be many things, but it's not an iPod touch-killer. Nor is there apparently a way to kill the record industry's aspirations, even with a stake through the heart. And aren't accounting rules a killer?
Remastered music: making new from old? Is remastering old recordings just a way to sell more, or does it make the listening experience better? Kirk McElhearn weighs in.
iTunes 9: A wish list It seems like a safe bet we'll see iTunes 9 unveiled some time in September. Scott McNulty weighs in on some rumored additions, and a few features he'd like to see.
DRM-free Apple rumors still just sound and fury The prognosticators of the Internet would have you believe a DRM-free iTunes Store is imminent. Of course, the Internet would have you believe a lot of things that probably aren't true.