By Tom Moccia |
The record labels think they have figured out a way to stop music piracy, but will earlier sales really help all that much? Ten years ago music pirates started to pillage the music industry and record labels have been trying to remedy the problem ever…
By Sean P. Aune |
While the Samsung Galaxy Music Player has been out for some time overseas, it is finally making its way to American shores. We got a little hands on time with it here at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with the player and … well ……
By Tom Moccia |
There have been many competitors to Apple’s iPod, but all of them have fallen by the wayside. The Microsoft Zune has somewhat held it’s own, but the iPod still holds over 70 percent market share for digital music players. The Apple handheld media player has…
By Tom Moccia |
Last month, Viacom quietly announced it was looking to sell one of their struggling divisions, Harmonix Music Systems, the makers of the popular Rock Band video game series. Surprisingly, this division has been hemorrhaging for quite some time now, and I have to wonder what…
By Winston Sih |
At long last, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has had at least one of his dreams fulfilled: The Beatles are now on iTunes. Ever since Apple launched iTunes, every time there has been a product announcement, especially one revolving around music, there has been speculation that…
By Sean P. Aune |
At long last, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has had at least one of his dreams fulfilled: The Beatles are now on iTunes. Ever since Apple launched iTunes, every time there has been a product announcement, especially one revolving around music, there has been speculation that…
By Tom Moccia |
When other editors and I here at Techno Buffalo discussed how relevant the extension of music previews in the iTunes Store we all kind of said, “ehh”. After some careful consideration, and really thinking about what this preview extension means, I have come to realize…
By Tom Moccia |
It seems iTunes has become the music-playing application of choice for Windows and Mac users alike; it may be the only thing they agree upon. Linux users on the other hand seem to have been left out in the cold in terms of music management.…
By Sean P. Aune |
Pretty much all of us here at TechnoBuffalo are salivating for the release of Tron Legacy. So, imagine our joy today when the Daft Punk video for their song “Derezzed” from the soundtrack hit the Intertubes. Check the great song, and get a good look…
By Leslie Poston |
Tech savvy music lovers everywhere have wanted access to their music “in the cloud” for a long time. Rumors abound this month that Google may finally deliver. If so, I have to say I will be one of those tech savvy music geeks dancing a…
By Leslie Poston |
Is it possible to love a service? I think it is – I’ve been using Shuffler.FM all weekend and I totally dig how it translates the channel surfing tendencies of the restless television viewer to music listening online and blog discovery. Since I help musicians…
By Leslie Poston |
The folks over at the infamous 4chan, known for banding together not only to bring us memes, be internet tastemakers and occasionally shock the masses with some truly down and dirty pr0n and other prurient interests, but to take on perceived internet foes on behalf…
By Sean P. Aune |
Once again rumors are circulating that Google is actively working on a music service, and now we’re hearing it may launch as soon as Christmas time this year. According a report from Reuters, VP of Engineering Andy Rubin, the man who oversees development of Android…
By Sean P. Aune |
Pandora has grown to be one of the leading streaming music services in the United States due to its ability to build intelligent stations for you from simply telling it a song or performer you like. You enter the information, it plays a song to…
By Sean P. Aune |
It would appear that it is becoming a growing trend for aging musical acts to make completely uninformed comments about the Internet. Last month was Prince declaring “the Internet’s completely over”, and now we have John (Cougar) Mellencamp comparing it to an atom bomb. My…
By Winston Sih |
In the latest speculation on Facebook’s future, users are one step closer in revealing its next move with Facebook and Spotify teaming up by hiring one of Spotify’s Chief Designers. Spotify is an online steaming service for music, similar to Lala the service Apple acquired…
By Sean P. Aune |
You would think at some point the surviving members of The Beatles would say “Fine!” and start selling their back catalog on iTunes, but apparently they don’t like money, or just really like the idea of digital piracy. Since the day Apple began selling music,…
By Sean P. Aune |
The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has spent the past few years trying to intimidate people out of the habit of illegally downloading music from the Internet. One of the key methods they have used to try to curtail the piracy is by suing…
By Sean P. Aune |
When Apple purchased Lala a few months back, the first assumption was that we would see a mobile streaming version of iTunes some time in the not too distant future. Things haven’t exactly zipped by on that front, but with the site closing down at…
By Travis Harvey |
It’s been a while since Apple has introduced anything major to their most popular service, iTunes. When Apple acquired music-streaming service Lala, speculation grew of Apple offering a music subscription service that would give users an endless supply of music, able to be streamed anywhere.…
By Sean P. Aune |
Apple announced its new iTunes LP format some time ago, but without seeing it for yourself, it was hard to determine if it was really all that exciting. Well, now Apple has made one of its newly formatted albums available for free for a limited…
By Sean P. Aune |
Before you get all excited about the possibility of Apple’s popular iTunes music service moving into the cloud space, have you considered the possible implications of just how much this is going to change the overall digital music landscape? Ever since the news last week of Apple…
By Armin Talic |
iTunes recently reviled their new Christmas celebration promotion, and if past years are anything to go by, it’ll be a good one. They’ve announced their latest ‘12 Days of Christmas‘ celebration, with 12 free iTunes downloads on offer each day between the 26th of December…
