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Steve Jobs Listened to Vinyl, Not MP3s

Musician Neil Young believes the digital era has “degraded our music” from a quality standpoint. He made this remark in an interview with Walt Mossberg and Peter Kafka at the D: Dive into Media conference. Young believes the music industry needs another revolution, but this time technology should be the ...

1 February 2012
05:07 GMT

Digital Music Sales Continue to Surge in 2009

The Internet has had a profound effect on the music industry and, even now, more than a decade after Napster proved that the people wanted a digital alternative, there are plenty fighting against the obvious trend. With all the gloom and doom scenarios, how did the recording industry fare in 2009. Well, it all depen...

8 January 2010
10:36 GMT

CDs Still Preferred over Downloads

Everyone is talking about digital music these days, be it online stores or Internet radios, but a recent UK survey found that the majority of people still prefer buying CDs over digital copies even among teenagers. Coming from research firm The Leading Question, affiliated with Music Ally, the survey found that 73 pe...

16 July 2009
06:08 GMT

Sympho Canvas, the Orchestra with No Humans

Automatic instruments and musical gadgets have been the delight of so many generations, whether we're talking about musical boxes, mechanical pianos or any other similar piece of engineering. Yet, the latest contraption coming from the Japanese company Lead Sound seems a bit over the edge, as we're dea...

20 October 2008
09:58 GMT

SanDisk Unveils Sansa slotMusic Player – No Bells or Whistles Here

Without a doubt, SanDisk is one of the most important flash memory manufacturers out there, but the truth of the matter is that lately it's made some more or less wrong moves on the market by trying to tackle certain market segments where its chances of success aren't exactly high. That's also the case...

16 October 2008
02:26 GMT

Tons of Good Music from Universal, Alternative for iTunes

The biggest pay-TV provider in the U.K., BskyB, has just signed an agreement with Universal Music in order to deliver to subscribers the possibility of either listening to music after a short live streaming on the computer and other supports, or downloading the songs they like. These will be available for any type of...

22 July 2008
10:51 GMT

IFPI - Use iTunes, Not P-to-P Networks!

If you thought you were getting a better deal using illegal P-to-P music services, rather than legitimate download services such as Apple's iTunes, then you are sadly mistaking. New research shows how file-sharers get both better breadth and catalogue of tracks from Apple's legitimate download service. Full...

25 January 2008
05:27 GMT

iPodize Your Vinyls with the Ion iTTUSB. Could We Stop Already?

The first time when some work colleague of mine mentioned some stuff about the iTTUSB I kinda rejoiced as I thought that some really cool and SERIOUS gear was gonna hit the markets, pretty much to the real help of those who want their vinyls digitized but are not that eager to spend more than $2,000 on professional...

7 August 2007
11:04 GMT

Is Hi-FI Dying?

So far, the CD music sales in the united Stated are 17% down. Now, it's the first quarter only, but the difference is clearly not to be covered for during the remainder of the year... CD sales are going down and this is a fact.People in the industry music are asking themselves more and more about what's cau...

20 April 2007
06:10 GMT

Late & Fresh News: Universal Buy BMG, Pending EU Approval

You all know Universal Group, you simply can't say you don't, at least from the beginning of motion pictures. Well, they're in music too, you know? And they're way big! As a matter of fact, Universal Music Group is one of the "4 major" who are responsible for RIAA and the crap RIAA is spreading ar...

18 April 2007
10:03 GMT

True Fair Play from iTunes: Complete My Album Feature

Well, I am quite sure that not once have you downloaded from iTunes a song recommended by friends and truly enjoyed it while really thinking of buying the whole album. Now, you see you're paying more than you should: actually you're throwing away the money you've spent in the first instance on buying t...

30 March 2007
05:47 GMT


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