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Apple shuts their Ping social music service on Sept. 30

Posted September 13, 2012 - 1:40 am

Two years is enough for Apple's music-centric social networking product Ping. Signups are halted, and the entire Ping program gets ponged at the end of the month.
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Weird Al has some competition: Chuck E. Cheese

Posted September 11, 2012 - 1:22 pm

Relive the '80s through the magic of Chuck E. Cheese parody music videos.
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'Apple is even more influential than I thought'

Posted August 31, 2012 - 1:09 pm

We both recognized the song, despite neither of us owning the song or album, and then we both realized the impossible: that Apple was, in fact, a more influential force on popular culture than is already known and assumed.
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Music streaming way up, as are Pandora's royalties

Posted August 20, 2012 - 2:46 pm

Music streaming is leading digital music sales past physical sales, but can streamers afford the royalties?
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Researchers: violins sound like imported luxury sports cars

Posted July 28, 2012 - 7:55 am

What does an orchestra have in common with a car engine? Ask any normal person and chances are they'll just give you a funny look. If you were to ask the good folks over at Sound Design Lab LLC and Chuo University's Takeshi Toi Laboratory the same question, however, the answer would be very, very different.
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Game of Thrones theme on a Stylophone

Posted July 25, 2012 - 3:51 pm

Machines can do many things - like play science-fiction theme songs!
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Profiles in geekdom: Musician Adam Young of Owl City

Posted July 14, 2012 - 7:55 am

Imagine this: You start out making music for fun in your parent's basement. You post some of your songs online. People discover them and like what they hear, and suddenly you have a fanbase. You sign a record deal, create a few albums, and one of your songs hits the top of the charts. And it all started in a basement. Sounds pretty improbable, doesn't it?
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Cookie Monster does 'Call Me Maybe' parody

Posted July 10, 2012 - 10:15 am

This is crazy, but you got cookie, so share it maybe?
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Declare independence from iTunes with Spotify premium

Posted July 7, 2012 - 7:35 am

Sick of your current music-management software? Invest in a Spotify membership and declare independence from iTunes, Google Music, or any other music app you're fed up with. iTunes in particular is becoming pretty bloated, especially for Windows users--but I've barely seen it over the past few months thanks to Spotify and the new ability to upgrade my iOS software on my iPhone itself.
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Hands on with Apple's podcasts for iOS

Posted June 30, 2012 - 7:35 am

Good news, podcast fans! No longer will you have to dig through your iPhone or iPad’s unaptly-named Music app in order to sate your listening appetite. On Tuesday, Apple released a new free app—titled, much more appropriately, Podcasts—which now serves as the one-stop shop for all of your iOS podcast needs.
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Add folder monitoring to iTunes 10

Posted June 23, 2012 - 7:51 am

Today I'm revisiting a topic I haven't covered in nearly three years: iTunes folder monitoring.
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Change hidden iTunes preferences lets you tweak iTunes options

Posted June 16, 2012 - 7:15 am

Like OS X itself, iTunes has a good number of hidden settings that affect how the program works and what options are available to you—some of them letting you revert to the behavior and appearance of older versions of iTunes. And as with those hidden OS X settings, accessing iTunes’s secret features requires you to either hunt down special shell commands that you run in Terminal or use a third-party utility that presents the settings in an easy-to-use interface.
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Rip and convert files with free MP3 toolkit

Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:19 am

MP3 Toolkit is simple and it works, letting you convert audio files to a number of different types, merge multiple files into one, clip files for ringtones or the like, edit tags, rip files from CD, and record using a microphone. There's nothing spectacular about it, unless you're impressed that it's free.
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Doctor Who theme song gets a Western twang

Posted April 21, 2012 - 7:51 am

Jump on a horse and saddle up to the big man with a blue box.
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Pandora clocks 1.8 billion listener hours in quarter, ups revenue

Posted August 29, 2011 - 11:36 am

Pandora, the streaming music service, went public in June and reported their very first quarterly financials recently. They didn't quite make a profit, but they got close, and they did make money on operations thanks to mobile advertising.
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RIM gets hip with music service for BlackBerry

Posted August 22, 2011 - 11:10 am

RIM, the Canadian company that came up with BlackBerry, is trying to update their image from boring corporate "emailus interruptus" to get jiggy with it.
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Star Wars + Police Academy sound effects character = awesomeness

Posted July 13, 2011 - 4:41 pm

Some scenes don't need an orchestra...
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The Wiggles, YouTube and Me (a love story)

Posted July 6, 2011 - 9:27 am

The things I do for my kids...
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Google Doodle guitar gallery: Songs galore!

Posted June 10, 2011 - 9:25 am

Let's get strumming, Interweb...
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Google Doodle Guitar Fun: Here come the songs!

Posted June 10, 2011 - 8:59 am

Just remember, no "Stairway"!
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Steve Jobs: One-man band

Posted March 7, 2011 - 10:03 pm

On top of his brilliance as a technology innovator, who knew Steve Jobs had some multi-instrument musical chops?
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Desperate to be as cool as Polaroid, Intel hires will.i.am [video]

Posted January 25, 2011 - 7:28 pm

Intel hired Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am as director of product innovation, aping Polaroid's deal with Lady Gaga, but not knowing why.
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RIAA vs. the rest of us: The same old song

Posted November 5, 2010 - 5:24 pm

Bet you thought we'd put the RIAA's ugly file swapper witch hunt behind us. Well, guess again. It's back in the news, now that Minnesota's file-swappin' momma Jammie Thomas-Rassett just lost for the third time in her battle against the RIAA.
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Socking it to the guilty: Billion dollar fine for LimeWire, $75-million for BP's oil spill

Posted June 9, 2010 - 2:36 pm

What's wrong with this picture?
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Four sites for live-music fanatics

Posted March 17, 2010 - 12:45 pm

I have what some might call an obsession with live recordings. Over the years, I've collected about 6,000 concerts--audience bootlegs and soundboard leaks as well as official releases. I've written previously about my favorite places to find recordings of live music. But I have also bookmarked four sites where I can find out which shows have been recorded and which songs were played.
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