The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear the case of Joel Tenenbaum, who illegally downloaded music during college and now faces a $675,000 fine.
Today, Spotify filled a huge gap in its offerings by releasing a dedicated iPad app, available for free in the App Store.
A digital creative agency has cobbled together quite a digitally creative way to enable anyone in the office to skip over unwelcome songs that have been added to the company’s shared Spotify playlist.
Just as simple, casual games like Angry Birds brought gaming to a wider audience, Paper and Figure can do the same for art and music.
Some enterprising individuals have cobbled together the ability to control Snake using recorders. They call it Snake Charmer.
I aired some grievances with Spotify’s mobile app just before the service launched in the United States last July, and the company’s PR department quickly scolded me. The software I tried was just a preview based on the U.K. service, they said, so it wasn’t nice for me to write a full review. Nonetheless, Spotify’s mobile apps haven’t gotten much better since then. Let’s revisit what’s wrong.
Austin’s streets are so crowded during the 48 hours when SxSW Interactive is ending and SxSW Music is beginning that it’s easy to imagine the budding love affair between music and tech began as a romcom collision.
Hackers reportedly made off with Michael Jackson’s entire back catalog during a raid on Sony Music’s servers last year.
Poor Google Music. According to CNet’s unnamed sources, the streaming music service isn’t doing well, with revenue and customer adoption below Google’s expectations. Now, some folks in the music industry are reportedly feeling concerned.
Since the advent of portable electronics, man has been trying to jury-rig portable electronics into automobiles to replace the lowly car stereo. Those days may soon be coming to an end.
How much is a song worth? It’s a question that’s often been discussed since the internet got involved in the music industry. Is it 99 cents, as iTunes, Amazon and other digital retailers believe? Is it some minuscule percentage of a monthly subscription fee, a la Spotify and online radio stations? Or is it free? One new label has made free music the center of its business model.
