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In yet another example of the music industry trying to say that they understand what’s going on with distributing music through the web, the record labels are trying to push a new format that will attempt to replace the album.  The format, called CMX, will be a single download that… Continue Reading »

Call it “Delusional Thursday” if you like, but a recent study from The Leading Question, in conjunction with Music Ally, says UK teens don’t just like CDs better, they prefer them.  In a world where the iPod has become more common than fire from a Sony laptop battery, we are… Continue Reading »

Many of us carry around easily pocketable personal music devices that carry upwards of tens of thousands of songs.  Even the smaller devices can hold a few hundred songs.  You no longer have to worry about variety with these kind of numbers.  Now, what if I told you that someday… Continue Reading »

HD music is different than normal music which you listen to daily, HD music is encoded in the highest quality and produced the way the artists wanted it to be heard.  The people who founded Chesky Records recently developed an online store that sells high-resolution music, HDtracks.  Every song comes… Continue Reading »

A New York District judge has dismissed EMI’s copyright infringement lawsuit against MP3Tunes CEO Michael Robertson.  In November, 2007 14 record labels affiliated with the EMI filed the suit, claiming MP3Tunes’s internet locker service encourages copyright infringement.  The service, which has 150,000 customers, provides personal, password protected accounts known as… Continue Reading »

Immediately after USA Today published a report declaring that Amazon’s music store is now the number 2 online seller of digital music, eMusic CEO, David Pakman disputed the report and said that eMusic is the number 2 online music seller and not Amazon. “This morning I read with some surprise… Continue Reading »

Panasonic Japan has released the D-Snap SV-SD870N, a new portable audio player that (at least) according to the translated version of the Panasonic Japan website, it seems that the main feature is its “noise killer” or noise canceling technology. So, you could probably expect to get a decent quality sound… Continue Reading »

Finally after one year of announcing that it will be opening its own online music store, Limewire has fulfilled its promise. Everybody’s once favorite peer-to-peer file sharing application joined the online music industry with its very own online music store. Limewire is making available its catalog of around 500,000 DRM-free… Continue Reading »

Napster and O2 have reached an agreement that would make available 5 million music tracks to O2’s mobile subscribers. The deal is set to expand O2’s limited music database while bringing another milestone in Napster’s move towards transforming its services into a legitimate online song shop. Under the Napster-O2 deal,… Continue Reading »

At the recent CES in Las Vegas, iriver presented its entry into the handheld PC market when it debuted WING. This device features web browsing, instant messaging, email, photo, music and text messaging ability along with an FM radio and camera. The Linux powered device is a black and white… Continue Reading »