Today at 1pm Eastern, Facebook will be making a big announcement at its “f8” developer conference. We’ll be covering the event and will relay the official news after all the dust has settled.
However, it appears that Facebook’s own creative director, Ji Lee, may have ruined one of the surprises already. Lee supposedly sent the …
He may have been one of the most successful recording artists in history, but that hasn’t stopped the corporate group responsible for managing Elvis Presley’s assets from filing a new lawsuit claiming that the singer was “unjustly exploited during his lifetime by his record company,” and all because no-one saw things like ringtones or …
Extra! Extra! Both CNBC and Mashable are reporting that Facebook plans to launch a music service next month. Nothing is for absolutely certain, but it’s been said that Spotify, MOG and Rdio might be partnering with Facebook as part of the new feature. Mark Zuckerberg is probably jamming out to this tune if it’s true. Wonder what Facebook …
[UPDATE: An Apple representative told All Things Digital that iTunes in the Cloud will not include streaming, as reported here. Users will be able to listen to a song while it’s downloading–hence Insanely Great Mac’s video of what appears to be streaming in action–but the file will need to be stored locally in order to be heard. The …
If you’re the kind of person who finds themselves trawling YouTube for music videos from your youth to remember whether or not that crush you had on that lead singer was reasonable or just teenage hormones (don’t judge me), then rest assured that you can finally do so without upsetting musicians over lost income. YouTube has announced a …
Remember Google Music? You know, the era before Spotify? Google’s launched a music blog called Magnifier to help you discover music that you can add to your Google Music Beta account.
The blog is basically updated every day, spotlighting a specific artist. A couple of songs will be featured, and then each song can be added to your
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If you’ve been buying your MP3s from Walmart, I have some bad news for you: You won’t be able to continue doing so after August 28th (Well, bad news and also a question: Why were you buying MP3s from Walmart?).
The retail giant has sent notice to distribution and licensing partners announcing that it will close its Download Store …
If you’d asked me, speaking as a piano guy and sometime digital music maker, I would’ve said controlling one piano with another across the Internet in realtime was, well, improbable. It’s not that Internet latency is too high (that is, delays incurred processing network data), but I don’t need to tell you how the Internet’s a fickle …
Britain is joining the rest of Europe in legalizing the copying of CDs and DVDs for personal use, following up on the recommendations of an institutional review on intellectual property framework carried out on behalf of the Prime Minister. In other words: The UK Government has finally decided that it’s legal for Brits to rip music that …
Rapper T-Pain made his name through the use of auto-tune. You know, the effect where a voice is pitch-corrected—or, in many cases, simply manipulated—during the recording and production process; think Cher in “Believe.” T-Pain popularized the effect the point that there’s even an official auto-tune app called “I Am T-Pain.”
But …
LimeWire may have shut down last year, and finally settled its five-years-long lawsuit with the RIAA this May, but that doesn’t mean that its troubles are over. Now, the former file-sharing company is being sued by a representative of more than 12,000 independent record companies that feel the RIAA settlement unfairly favored the big …
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Question: So, this Spotify thing... How do I land myself an invite?
Answer: Music in the cloud — it’s a lovely thing.
The newest and shiniest of the services is Euro-darling Spotify, which on Thursday made its debut on …
