Facebook’s Listen Button Plays Artists on Spotify, MOG, Rdio, More
Application Programming Interface, thy name be “awesome!” Excuse the geek-out, if you’re not up on your API ABC’s, but how else are we to react to the fact that Facebook just added a Listen button to...
View Article‘Forced’ Sharing Works for Listening to Music, but Maybe Not Reading the News
The Washington Post is in bad shape, and its social reader app, which spams your Facebook friends with the fact that you just read an article about Kim Kardashian’s latest hangnail atrocity, isn’t...
View ArticleFord Sync Controls MOG Music with Voice, Dashboard
Ford Sync impressed us at the Consumer Electronics Show five years ago for how it lets drivers control entertainment and navigation systems with their voices, enabling them to keep their eyes on the...
View ArticleHow Streaming Music Will Change Culture… for the Better
Forget, for the moment, about how much Spotify pays out to artists. Focus instead on the nature of those payouts. In the olden days (i.e. 20 years ago), recording artists had to convince you to fall...
View ArticleCan You Delete All Your Music and Mirror It to a Subscription?
A fascinating experiment began this month on NPR’s All Songs Considered blog. Bob Boilen, creator and host of the influential radio show by the same name, deleted all 25,000-or-so songs on his hard...
View ArticleDuly Noted: $600-Plus Microsoft Surface, The Fader’s Spotify App, Rockstar...
Our experimental Duly Noted category is a collection of news from other publications and press announcements that we put into our own words. Hey, someone should start a business around that! Microsoft...
View ArticleBeats Electronics Has Agreed to Purchase MOG Music Service (Updated)
Beats Electronics — maker of the Beats by Dre headphones everyone seems to be wearing these days — is now in the actual music business. The companies announced on Monday that Beats will acquire the MOG...
View ArticleMaybe The Internet Only Wants One of Everything
In the early days of the web, the technology space was flush with not only money, but a specific type of optimism: that this new medium would allow anybody to make whatever they wanted, and have the...
View ArticleUnlimited Music Heats Up with Big New Spotify Challengers
It’s no simple matter to make music fans happy enough to pay $10 per month, even for unlimited access to most of the music in the world, while also paying royalties to record labels, music publishers,...
View ArticleGoogle Music Adds ‘Scan And Match’ But You Don’t Care – Here’s Why
When Apple launched iCloud, it included a feature that let you put your music in the cloud without manually uploading each song, which takes forever. That’s why we thought Apple, ironically given its...
View ArticleBeats, Pono, Motörheadphönes: Is Celebrity the Key to High-End Digital Audio?
For years, pointy-headed freaks with golden ears have told everyone within earshot that MP3s, CDs, and just about every other popular format sounds like garbage. Instead, they say, we should all buy...
View ArticleTop 28 Facebook Music Apps: The New Generation
When you’re in charge of a publication, sometimes you look at server logs to see what people are reading. We try not to obsess too much about it, because it encourages repetition of the same formulaic...
View ArticleFred Wilson on Music Interoperability: ATM-Style ‘Roaming Network’
Venture capitalist and blogger Fred Wilson, whose firm invests in Turntable.fm, SoundCloud, Twitter, and other companies, weighed in on an issue we’ve written about several times: true music...
View ArticlePros And Cons: Google Play Music All Access Subscription
I set out this morning to build a chart listing the various features of the major music subscription services: Rdio, Rhapsody, Spotify, and we assume the recently-launched Google Play Music All Access,...
View ArticleBargain Alert: Subscription Music Is On Sale This Summer
If you’ve been contemplating grabbing all the music from your hard drive and leaping up into the cloud with it, first see our comprehensive primer on how to do that with a subscription service, a music...
View ArticleHow To Give Someone 20 Million Songs for 2014
If you pay by the month for music, your kith and kin might call you crazy behind your back. Isn’t that stuff free? On the other hand, if you are a subscriber, you’ve probably realized that if you like...
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