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		<title>Apple Unveils Music Streaming Service</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/06/10/apple-unveils-music-streaming-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Barbara Ortutay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Apple unveiled an Internet radio service called iTunes Radio on Monday and said the service will personalize listeners&#8217; music based on what they&#8217;ve listened to and what they&#8217;ve purchased on iTunes. Apple said iTunes Radio will be available this fall in the U.S. It will be free with advertisements included, although subscribers of Apple&#8217;s iTunes Match music-storage service will get a commercial-free version of iTunes Radio. That service costs $25 a year. In unveiling the long-expected service Monday at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple enters a crowded field. Google Inc. started an on-demand subscription music service called All Access last month. Other leading services include Spotify, Rhapsody and Pandora. Apple was a pioneer of online music sales and is still a leader there, but streaming services such as Pandora and Spotify have emerged as popular alternatives to buying. Pandora relies on its users being connected to the Internet at all times and plays songs at random within certain genres for free. As with Pandora, iTunes Radio will let people create stations based on specific songs, artists or genres. So users can put in a particular song, and the station will play songs like it. Apple did not provide details on how the other songs will be determined. Pandora uses a formula to analyze songs based on musical and other characteristics. Users won&#8217;t be able to type in the name of a specific song and have it play right away. Pandora doesn&#8217;t allow that either. That&#8217;s something available through other services that charge monthly fees, including Spotify and Google&#8217;s All Access. Analysts were lukewarm. &#8220;This is a nice free feature that lots of people will probably try out, but existing Pandora users won&#8217;t have much reason to switch,&#8221; said Jan Dawson, chief telecoms analyst at Ovum, in an emailed comment. Dawson said a service that lets people call up specific songs on demand would have made a bigger splash, &#8220;but that would likely have disrupted Apple&#8217;s existing iTunes business, and the music industry as<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=164399&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Places to Find Free Music Online</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/28/the-best-places-to-find-free-music-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 09:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Katharine Knibbs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can find almost any song you can think of online and download it for free. If you want to do it legally, it’s a little tougher – but not impossible (in many cases). We rounded up a list of places to look if you want to score a free song but don’t want to break the law. Before we get too far, we should mention that free doesn&#8217;t usually mean the latest popular songs. But there are plenty of opportunities to find older songs, newer songs from independent artists and a few surprises along the way. Look for deals on iTunes and Amazon iTunes and Amazon aren’t exactly where you&#8217;d think to look for free music, since they’re the most popular purveyors of paid online downloads. But as long as you’re not looking for a specific song, you can find some really interesting new tunes on these big services. iTunes offers an entire section called Free on iTunes. The section title is a bit misleading, since most offered titles are just discounted as part of an album, but you can find a new free single each week. Amazon offers a wider selection of totally free downloads – it has over 50,000 songs available at no cost, from pop mainstays like Justin Bieber to of-the-moment indie acts like Autre Ne Veut. Like in iTunes, you can’t choose which songs are free, but if you’re just looking for something new, it’s not a bad place to look. Also, Amazon allows you to download free digital versions of many CDs that you have purchased through them. Their AutoRip service uses the cloud to store MP3 versions of thousands of songs and if Amazon has a record of you purchasing the CD from them, you can download the corresponding MP3s at no charge. Another large online music repository with a surprisingly robust collection of downloadable tunes: Last.fm. You might think of it as strictly an online radio service, but you can also score free, legal downloads. Music Blogs: Your new best friend If you like to keep<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163474&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Propellerhead Releases Reason 7 with MIDI Out, Deeper Editing and Retro Transformation</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/30/propellerhead-rolls-out-reason-7-with-parallel-processing-midi-out-and-rack-madness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s kind of adorable when a music software powerhouse like Propellerhead crams all the ballyhoo about the newest version of its digital audio workstation, Reason 7, into a few sparse paragraphs. Reason is Propellerhead&#8217;s flagship DAW, after all; most press releases scroll on for pages, flush with links to assets or Facebook and Twitter hoedowns. Not this one. For homebrew audiophiles, it&#8217;s sort of like Justin Timberlake announcing his new album on PBS NewsHour. But then digital audio workstations are nothing like mainstream music albums, more comparable to a new version of Photoshop, except in many ways even less approachable and more dauntingly complex. You don&#8217;t pull Reason &#8212; or Logic, Cubase, Ableton Live and Sonar &#8212; out of the box (or download it) and have your genius musical idea up and grooving in anything like the time it takes to throw something together in Apple&#8217;s GarageBand&#8230;and even GarageBand can take some doing. So caveat emptor, casual composers, but for the two or three or you reading this who&#8217;ve actually used Reason before, Propellerhead&#8217;s touting its seventh version as, well, important if perhaps not as significant a rethink as the 6.5 point update that arrived last year &#8212; the one that cracked Reason open with what Propellerhead dubbed Rack Extensions: essentially the Apple App Store meets third-party rack-style extensions, all of that curated by Propellerhead to mitigate &#8220;unstable plug-ins, authentication nightmares and compatibility complications.&#8221; With Reason 7, Propellerhead added features like MIDI Out support, an array of deeper audio editing features including automatic audio slicing and audio quantization, a new spectrum analyzer so you can actually visualize the audio and EQ each track, and a souped-up, streamlined mixer with more intuitive track grouping and single-click channel parallelization. You&#8217;ll also see something called an &#8220;Audiomatic Retro Transformer,&#8221; which Propellerhead calls &#8220;a future‑retro effect unit with plenty of personality,&#8221; a broader sound bank (with an emphasis on drum loops) and support for a broader range of audio formats like AAC, MP3 and WMA (if you want to roll your own loops, say). All told, it<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161359&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Complaining: Playmysong and Spotify Just Gave Us Free Jukeboxes</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/25/stop-complaining-playmysong-and-spotify-just-gave-us-free-jukeboxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evolver.fm / Eliot Van Buskirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comedian Louis CK made a great point that’s worth revisiting (transcript), even if you’ve seen it before:  that “everything is amazing and nobody is happy.” The disruptive funnyman was referring to the way we complain about the world we live in, even as we enjoy unprecedented abilities and conveniences thanks to the preposterous degree of technological advancement over the past few decades. People love to complain about flying, for example, and they are people who are sitting in chairs in the sky checking their Facebooks on WiFi. In the sky — and complaining about it, when just a few generations ago, traveling that same distance took years or occasionally lives. This brings us to the point: Playmysong launched a Spotify app this morning (Spotify link) that can turn any computer into a jukebox containing most of the music in the world, for free. You and all of your friends can control it with your smartphones at parties, in offices, dorms, or wherever else. We just gained another amazing thing to complain about! Please consider that just a few years ago, a jukebox capable of anything remotely similar to that would have been accessible only to the very richest people on the planet — and even then, their jukeboxes would contain a limited selection of music that would start going out of date right away. And the remote controls, which would have to be custom-made for tens of thousands of dollars, would have been super clunky and lame, probably without touchscreens, let alone the ability to let you complain about them on Facebook. As of today, even an earnest Luddite who thoroughly enjoys being terrible at technology can set up a Playmysong/Spotify jukebox in minutes that anyone with a smartphone can control, all using equipment that most people reading this already have, meaning that for all intents and purposes, this magic is completely free — and not only that, but Spotify pays artists, labels, songwriters, and publishers for the music you play (some people say not enough, but that’s a different<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161094&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ReDigi CEO Says the Court Just Snatched Away Your Right to Resell What You Legally Own</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/25/redigi-ceo-says-the-court-just-snatched-away-your-right-to-resell-what-you-legally-own/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;ReDigi 1.0 is dead &#8212; long live ReDigi 2.0 and beyond.&#8221; That&#8217;s what I wrote after ReDigi &#8212; a digital content exchange that allows you to purchase and resell digital music &#8212; lost an important legal battle against Capitol Records in late March. Capitol filed a complaint against ReDigi in New York in early 2012 for copyright infringement, alleging the company&#8217;s service was illegal on a variety of levels. ReDigi had argued that its version 1.0 technology, which let people upload to ReDigi servers and resell songs they&#8217;d purchased from iTunes, wasn&#8217;t copying, which would put it in violation of U.S. copyright law. The judge disagreed, writing in his ruling: &#8220;The novel question presented in this action is whether a digital music file, lawfully made and purchased, may be resold by its owner through ReDigi under the first sale doctrine. The Court determines that it cannot.&#8221; I spoke with ReDigi CEO John Ossenmacher shortly after the verdict about its ramifications for would-be digital resellers and what it means for ReDigi as a viable marketplace for used content rolling forward. Your reaction to the verdict? We all plan and we all think about what are the consequences or likely outcomes of things that might happen, and I have to say, one of the things we&#8217;re really grateful for&#8230; Our business was growing nicely before this verdict, but since it came out, we&#8217;ve been overwhelmed. Our system has almost gone down a couple times. We&#8217;ve been deluged with people not only wishing us well, but signing up and offering help. It&#8217;s been crazy. A lot of people who might not have otherwise know who you were. It&#8217;s like this whole unintended consequence of what happened. This ruling obviously has ramifications well beyond ReDigi. It&#8217;s not just music, it&#8217;s really digital everything, isn&#8217;t it? The future of how we think about digital artifacts in the U.S.? I can&#8217;t name this person, but an executive at a major record label said, &#8220;You know these guys at ReDigi, unfortunately they&#8217;ve let the proverbial genie out of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161063&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter #Music Helps You Mostly Rediscover What You Already Knew</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/18/twitter-music-helps-you-mostly-rediscover-what-you-already-knew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bring up Twitter #music&#8217;s default main page, whether in a browser or the slick, currently iOS-exclusive app, and you&#8217;re immediately confronted by beautifully stylized, edge-to-edge stacks of squarish, super-sized Twitter profile art &#8212; in the default &#8220;Popular&#8221; view&#8217;s case, colorful pics of the most Twitter-visible artists and songs. There&#8217;s @taylorswift13 with &#8220;22,&#8221; @robinthicke with &#8220;Blurred Lines,&#8221; @MumfordAndSons with &#8220;I Will Wait for You,&#8221; and of course @psy_oppa in the number one spot with his &#8220;Gangnam Style&#8221; followup, &#8220;Gentleman.&#8221; If your musical interests tend toward trends, in other words, this is precisely the app you&#8217;ve been looking for. And what a lovely app it turns out to be from a design standpoint, easily (and ironically) outclassing Twitter&#8217;s own native iOS client and web interface. The iOS version, in particular soars, letting you quickly swipe left or right between its four primary views, alternatively tapping a drop-down menu &#8212; the website&#8217;s sole navigation mechanic &#8212; if you&#8217;d rather shortcut-hop around. Take &#8220;Popular,&#8221; the default screen, which drops the top 140 (get it?) most popular artists and songs &#8220;trending on Twitter&#8221; into a 3 x 5 scrollable grid. Click on an artist&#8217;s square and you zoom on it, iTunes-style, where you can then listen to an iTunes preview clip, fire off a tweet about it, drill for Twitter-related information (like &#8220;Artists Following&#8221;), or opt to follow an artist outright. Slide over to &#8220;Emerging&#8221; and you can fiddle with the service&#8217;s more intriguing music view &#8212; another 140 artists, though chances are you&#8217;ll recognize fewer of them off the block. Twitter defines this view as &#8220;Hidden talent found in the Tweets,&#8221; whatever that means. I won&#8217;t guess what sort of algorithmic voodoo the company&#8217;s working here, but this list seems to turn up primarily the sort of groups &#8212; nothing against them, mind you &#8212; that you&#8217;ll find gracing a site like Pitchfork, i.e. hip-to-be-Indie stuff: Grizzly Bear, Yeasayer, Fitz &#38; the Tantrums, Ladyhawke and so forth. What you won&#8217;t find is genuinely off the beaten path wonders like @gretchenparlato, or @SteveReich, or @GreyboyAllstars, or [insert<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160545&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter #Music Is Officially a Thing, Folds In Rdio, Spotify and iTunes</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/18/twitter-music-is-officially-a-thing-folds-in-rdio-spotify-and-itunes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The music discovery service Twitter&#8217;s been testing privately for some time is officially here: Visit Twitter #music and you&#8217;ll discover a collage of Twitter-bound artists stacked in colorful squares and ranked (by default) according to their popularity via the social networking barometer. Twitter says the service is available now in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and that more countries will follow. (FOLLOW-UP: Twitter #Music Review) We&#8217;ve known this was in the offing for a while, but not when we&#8217;d get to play with it: Twitter made that official this morning on Good Morning America, explaining the service would be available as both a website and iOS app starting today. Twitter #music&#8217;s raison d&#8217;être, says the company, is to help us find trending music as well as music related to the groups we follow. It does this by collating activity on Twitter to &#8220;detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists&#8221; (&#8220;popular&#8221; being the operative word &#8212; this isn&#8217;t where you&#8217;ll go to unearth likable local acts, say, or obscure indie gems). Potentially cool: You&#8217;ll be able to play songs without exiting Twitter. The company says it&#8217;s sourcing three popular digital music services to handle music playback at launch: iTunes, Spotify and Rdio. The default player will be iTunes, with no login required, while Rdio and Spotify subscribers will have to log in to their accounts to hear songs streamed from either service. Twitter says it &#8220;will continue to explore and add other music service providers.&#8221; I&#8217;ll be back later today with initial thoughts on the web interface and iOS app, but Good Morning America notes the app is divided into four sections: a &#8220;Popular&#8221; view (what&#8217;s trending on Twitter), an &#8220;Emerging&#8221; view (an algorithm to surface less well known music &#8212; pre-trending? &#8212; somehow), a &#8220;Suggested&#8221; view (the usual &#8220;you might like this because you follow this&#8221; associative thing) and a &#8220;NowPlaying&#8221; view (check out what your friends are listening to or talking about). The only downsides I can think of at this point: no Android or Windows Phone versions<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160537&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speakerfy: A Free App for Whole-Home Audio, or Silent Discos</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/01/speakerfy-a-free-app-for-whole-home-audio-or-silent-discos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Playing music in multiple rooms around the house can be an expensive endeavor, with products like Sonos costing upwards of $300 per speaker. If you&#8217;ve already got a handful of phones, tablets and laptops connected to existing speakers around the house, why not sync them together so they&#8217;re all playing the same songs at the same time? Speakerfy, an app that officially launches on iPhone and iPad this week, and on Windows and Android next week, is a quick and dirty way to make it happen. It allows you to synchronize audio playback on multiple phones, tablets and laptops, so you can listen to the same music while wandering from room to room. (Whole-home audio isn&#8217;t Speakerfy&#8217;s primary intended function. It&#8217;s actually billed as a &#8220;social sound&#8221; app, allowing people to listen to music together across devices. Yes, it&#8217;s an app for silent discos. No, I&#8217;m not hip enough to partake in said discos. Whole-home audio it is.) Speakerfy streams audio over your local Wi-Fi network, or over a shared mobile hotspot, to any device that&#8217;s also running the app. Just send an invite to the devices you want to connect, then choose a song, album or playlist from your music collection. The other devices will start playing music in time with the host device. Right now, Speakerfy isn&#8217;t perfect. Every time you play a new song, there&#8217;s a delay of a few seconds as the devices get in sync, and once playback begins, the receiving devices stutter for a moment while the audio falls in line. John Wright, Speakerfy&#8217;s president, told me that the company&#8217;s working on the issue. The app itself is also aesthetically rough around the edges, and it&#8217;s prone to strange behavior. When I first tried the app, my iPhone and iPad failed to get in sync, and a message told me to force-close and restart the app. I had to do that again later on, when I&#8217;d left both devices idle for a while. Jared Newman / TIME.com Finally, there&#8217;s one major limitation to Speakerfy: It<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159360&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yet Another All-You-Can-Eat iTunes Music Rumor Emerges</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/06/yet-another-all-you-can-eat-itunes-music-rumor-emerges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters is reporting that Apple CEO Tim Cook recently met with Jimmy Iovine, famed music producer and Beats CEO, to chat about &#8220;a potential partnership involving Beats&#8217; planned music-streaming service.&#8221; Iovine&#8217;s company is currently working on a service called Project Daisy; Beats acquired streaming music service MOG last July, a move seen as an attempt to augment Beats&#8217; line of headphones and speakers developed by Iovine and rap legend Dr. Dre. Reuters quotes three anonymous sources as saying the meeting was &#8220;informational&#8221; but the article adds that Apple &#8220;has been widely reported to be considering a music-streaming service to complement iTunes, the largest repository of music for sale.&#8221; If Apple were to launch a streaming music service, it certainly wouldn&#8217;t be the first to do so, but the company&#8217;s enormous base of iTunes users and iTunes&#8217; tight integration with Apple&#8217;s hardware products would likely help such a service quickly scale to compete with the likes of Spotify and similar competitors. This next bit is pure speculation on my part, so please indulge me. I see a couple of possible scenarios here: If Apple were to launch its own streaming music service that exclusively leveraged whatever Beats is working on, and assuming the service would be priced like other services, we might expect to see a $5-per-month option that featured the ability to stream music to the iTunes desktop software, and a $10-per-month option that featured the ability to download tracks for offline listening and for use on mobile devices. I&#8217;d be surprised to see the ability to stream or download tracks to anything other than iTunes or Apple hardware products, however, with the exception of Windows PCs that run the iTunes software. I wouldn&#8217;t expect that you&#8217;d be able to use this service with non-Apple mobile devices, in other words, and people want to listen to their music while in places other than in front of their computers, believe it or not. Though Apple has a large base of iPhone, iPod and iPad owners, this tactic would still limit the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157745&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nataly Dawn On Her New Album How I Knew Her and Why Kickstarter Fans Can Be Fickle</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/12/nataly-dawn-on-her-new-album-how-i-knew-her-and-why-kickstarter-fans-can-be-fickle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drop Nataly Dawn&#8217;s new album How I Knew Her into a search engine and you&#8217;ll turn up lots of talk about the singer-songwriter&#8217;s surprise turn from the whimsical covers of indie duo Pomplamoose (her YouTube-driven collaboration with musician and partner Jack Conte) to an eclectic folk rock-ish album of probing, poignant songs that chronicle, among other things, her struggles with faith and identity. But one of the most intriguing things about How I Knew Her is how it came to be in the first place: Back in July 2011, Dawn launched a Kickstarter project asking fans for $20,000 to fund an album of solo, non-Pomplamoose material. By the time funding closed in early September, she&#8217;d quintupled her target figure and raised an astonishing $104,788. The new album hits stories this Wednesday (it&#8217;s streaming live at Paste now), and it&#8217;s already drawing critical acclaim from places like Drowned in Sound (&#8220;&#8230;combines sweet and tender vocals with unbridled energy to create something genuinely infectious&#8221;) and The Boston Globe (&#8220;&#8230;has the nicely ramshackle clomp of a live band&#8221;). I caught up with Dawn last week to talk about her live studio experience, the album&#8217;s Kickstarter inception, how she still went into debt to make it and why she&#8217;s frustrated with musician Amanda Palmer&#8217;s Kickstarter critics. You just wrapped a national tour for the new album. How did it go? You were on the road with Ben Folds Five, and you opened for Clint Black at one point. Yeah, and actually I&#8217;ve heard several people be like, &#8220;Well I don&#8217;t really understand that bill, I don&#8217;t understand you really with Ben Folds or Clint Black.&#8221; But it makes so much sense, actually. The audiences in both scenarios were so receptive to my music and also really attentive to the lyrics. I think that&#8217;s the most important thing when choosing an audience &#8212; are you going to be dealing with people who care not just about what you&#8217;re playing, but what you&#8217;re saying. And if you have that, then chances are they&#8217;re actually going to listen to you<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156424&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>App Review: Timbre Is the Classiest Way to Find Local Concerts</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/08/app-review-timbre-is-the-classiest-way-to-find-local-concerts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finding a concert in your vicinity these days ought to be simple, right? Just throw some words at a search engine, the name of your city, say, and a couple phrases like &#8220;local music&#8221; or &#8220;live events,&#8221; click around in your browser&#8217;s results, and bam, you&#8217;re on your way to see Springsteen and the E Streeters, They Might Be Giants or Benjamin Britten&#8217;s War Requiem as thunderously rendered by your local symphony orchestra. And yet web-trawling for local events is also kind of a mess: a mix of half-baked, ad-choked aggregators. If you&#8217;re new to your area, as I was when I moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan a few years ago, you have to poke around sites like Yelp or others until you&#8217;ve identified the go-to spots, some of whose acts only appear on the actual venue websites. Getting a handle on an average week&#8217;s music events can be a trick, especially if you&#8217;re near a big city (say Detroit) with a still-vibrant music scene (despite the city&#8217;s ongoing unpleasantries). Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to have all this stuff in a single, dependable nexus? A comprehensive repository from which you could see everything, national touring acts to local ones, without fuss or muss? Mobile devices have been approaching this problem from different angles and with varying degrees of success for years. There used to be a popular app called Local Concerts, for instance, which got the job done but now seems to be missing in action. Today you&#8217;re liable to download something like Eventster, which tries to be all things to all people, cramming &#8220;nightlife, concerts, festivals, sports, theater,&#8221; and so forth into a basically functional, scrollable list with an alternative (if troublesomely crowded) map view. There&#8217;s also stuff like Thrillcall and Bandsintown Concerts, both of which offer somewhat improved interfaces, but only if you give them access to your Facebook profile &#8212; usually a deal-breaker for me, because who wants to open the gates to their private social network info before they&#8217;ve had a chance to test-drive the app? Yesterday I got an email from investment firm<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156356&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Music&#8217;s Free Scan and Match Feature Comes to the U.S.</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/12/19/google-play-musics-scan-and-match-service-comes-stateside/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Music, a useful service that no one&#8217;s using, has just made it easier to get started with a new scan and match feature for storing your music online. After hitting Europe last month, it&#8217;s available now to U.S. users as well. Just like Apple&#8217;s iTunes Match and Amazon&#8217;s scan and match service, Google Music now compares your local music library with its own database of songs. When it finds a match, Google places its copy of that song in your online library, then it uploads any remaining songs that it can&#8217;t match. A lightweight piece of software called Music Manager handles all the syncing. Once your songs are stored in Google Music, they&#8217;re available for streaming at 320 kbps through play.google.com/music, and through the Google Play Music app for Android. Unofficial apps are also available for iOS (I&#8217;m partial to gMusic) and Windows Phone (try Gooroovster). The big difference between Google and its competitors is that Google doesn&#8217;t charge for the service, so you can scan and store up to 20,000 songs online without paying yearly dues. Apple charges $25 per year to scan and match up to 25,000 songs, and Amazon charges the same for 250,000 songs, beyond a free offering of 250 tracks. All three services offer free storage for any songs you&#8217;ve purchased through their respective music stores. The biggest potential downside with Google Music is that it relies on an Internet connection to access your music. On phones and tablets, you can download individual songs, albums, artists or playlists for offline listening, but there&#8217;s no easy way to bulk download your entire library onto mobile devices. If you have a tiny data plan or live in an area with unreliable service, that can be a problem. The flip side, however, is that your music library doesn&#8217;t have to hog all the storage space on your phone or tablet. If you have the bandwidth, the fact that Google Music is Internet-based is actually beneficial. For existing users, Google says it&#8217;ll start automatically matching libraries against its own in &#8220;the next<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=153678&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Highway to Sell: AC/DC Now Available on iTunes</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/11/20/acdc-itunes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AC/DC, a longtime iTunes holdout, has decided to join the digital age. The classic rock band&#8217;s entire catalog is now available exclusively through iTunes, including 16 studio albums, four live albums and three compilation albums. As always, listeners can purchase entire albums or individual tracks. All songs cost $1.29&#8211;the high-end for iTunes singles&#8211;while most albums cost $9.99. Apple&#8217;s also selling a collection of all studio albums for $99.99, and a complete set of studio albums, live albums and box sets for $149.99. iTunes once had a long list of big-name holdouts, but that list has dwindled over the years. Led Zeppelin tested the waters in 2007 with a compilation album, but now offers its full catalog. Radiohead joined up in 2008, the Beatles made a deal with Apple in November 2010 and just last month, Kid Rock put his newest album on Apple&#8217;s service. Still, some major artists are hanging on to the compact disc, including Garth Brooks, Bob Seger, Def Leppard and Tool. Black Sabbath&#8217;s most well-known albums aren&#8217;t on iTunes either, though some newer albums have appeared. What&#8217;s taking these artists so long to embrace the MP3 (or in Apple&#8217;s case, the M4A)? When it&#8217;s not about money or digital rights management, it&#8217;s about preserving the integrity of the album, man. See the comments of Jay-Z, who in 2007 refused to sell his album American Gangster on iTunes: &#8220;As movies are not sold scene by scene, this collection will not be sold as individual singles,&#8221; he said at the time, though the tracks are available on an individual basis now. As Music Ally points out, AC/DC&#8217;s motivations for avoiding iTunes seemed to be similar. &#8220;We always were a band that if you heard something (by AC/DC) on the radio, well, that’s only three minutes. Usually the best tracks were on the albums,&#8221; guitarist Angus Young told Sky News in 2010, after the Beatles signed their deal. &#8221;For us it’s the best way. We are a band who started off with albums and that’s how we’ve always been,&#8221; he said. While the commitment<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=151688&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Microsoft&#8217;s New Xbox Music Service Do What Zune Couldn&#8217;t?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/16/can-microsofts-new-xbox-music-service-do-what-zune-couldnt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has big plans for its new Xbox Music service when Windows 8 arrives on Oct. 26 and Windows Phone 8 a few days later on Oct. 29, but if you're a gamer and you'd rather not wait, it's actually available on the Xbox 360 starting today.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=148351&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox Music Looks Good, As Far As It Goes</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/15/microsofts-xbox-music-looks-good-as-far-as-it-goes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 07:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft's new music service has a nice Windows 8 interface and free on-demand streaming, but some pretty basic features aren't scheduled to show up until 2013.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=148331&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Cares About Neil Young’s Ultra-High Quality Music Standard?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/03/who-cares-about-neil-youngs-ultra-high-quality-music-standard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neil Young's new music service promises higher fidelity audio than anything yet seen from digital storefronts, but will most of us accustomed to compressed, MP3-quality tunes really care?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=147511&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Old-Timey Scanner Rocks Vocals on &#8216;Somebody That I Used to Know&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/02/old-timey-scanner-rocks-vocals-on-somebody-that-i-used-to-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just give in. There's no escaping Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=147506&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pono: Can High-Quality Audio Sell Neil Young&#8217;s Portable Music Player?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/10/01/pono-neil-young/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having conquered rock and roll, Neil Young is setting his sights on consumer electronics with Pono, a portable music player and accompanying high-quality audio service coming next year.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=147347&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Perfect Playlist: How Your iPod Can Help You Run Faster and Harder</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/08/06/the-perfect-playlist-how-your-ipod-can-help-you-run-faster-and-harder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you need an extra push to hit the pavement or treadmill — or to make it through that last grueling mile of training — and the key may simply be loading right songs on your iPod.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=141712&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Musical DNA: WhoSampled iPhone App Scours Tracks for Borrowed Riffs</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/07/05/musical-dna-whosampled-iphone-app-scours-tracks-for-borrowed-riffs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WhoSampled promises to let you "explore the DNA of music" by illustrating how songwriters quote one another. So how does the company's new $2.99 iPhone interface measure up?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=138198&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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