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, one of the biggest questions has been, “Where’s The Beatles catalog?” At first people thought it was the copyright fight over...
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 offenders, and in most cases people settle out of court. You would think that this wouldn’t be that expensive of a process just to...
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 the end of this month, most people assume something is about to be announced, possibly at the World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June...
Ever since Apple bought the music streaming service Lala, people have assumed some form of music streaming service was coming from the makers of the iPhone. With Lala due to close at the end of this month, we still haven’t heard what Apple’s plans are, but at least one other company isn’t waiting around to find out and is forging ahead with its own cloud-based music streaming service...
With the amount of music out there today, you would think it would be easier to discover new bands. The problem is, unless they are on a major label, and have some sort of pop hook, it is highly doubtful you’ll be able to hear them on the radio, so how do you find new bands when you just have to get something new in to your MP3 player? Why the Internet of course. Music discovery...
It would seem the days of listening to any song you want streaming from an online site may be coming to a rapid close if Warner Music Group gets its way. According to the BBC, Warner Music Group has decided that it has had it with the idea of ad-supported music streaming services that allow users to listen to an unlimited assortment of music. Considered one of the big four record...
Musicians are a demanding bunch. In the same breath they voice preferences for both vintage and new technology. I take a look at some of the latter to have caught my eye over the last year.
Rather than give music lovers credit for having some common sense, European politicians are looking to safeguard their hearing by imposing a maximum volume of 85 decibels on personal media players.
Go to Pandora, and you can listen to streaming music to your heart’s content. You can do the same with Last.fm. Blip.fm will work also. And then you can load up Spotify and … oh, wait, that only works in Europe so far. While we fully understand that Pandora is not available outside of the United States, the point of this is that Spotify wants to launch in the U.S., it’s even in...
Is Social Networking powerful enough to fight the might of Simon Cowell’s X-Factor? We’re about to find out! Twitter and Facebook have been on fire in the last few days as the exciting climax to an online campaign fast approaches. Its aim: to get a track by rock legends Rage Against The Machine (RATM) to the UK’s number one spot in the Christmas charts instead of the latest winner of...