Everyone uses their computer to listen to their favorite tunes, whether it's a PC or an iPhone, but it wasn't always so. Delve into the history of digital music with this week's Trivia Tuesday. More...
As the internet becomes more readily available, users are finding new ways to discover music. Digital music stores like iTunes or Zune Marketplace have helped provide a service to allow people to purchase individual tracks... More...
The production value of digital music is likely to grow sharply, to account for half of the world's entire music market in 2010 if Nokia's recently launched 'Comes With Music' business mode proves successful, representatives... More...
Record companies' revenue from digital music sales rose 40 percent to $2.9 billion over the past year, but the growth is still failing to cover losses from collapse of international CD sales, the International Federation... More...
According to data from Nielsen SoundScan, U.S. sales of digital music albums grew by 60% to 23.5 million units in the first six months of 2007 but failed to offset the rapid sales decline of... More...
In its Digital Music Report 2007, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) stated that digital music sales doubled in 2006. The growth, however, did not make up for the decline in CD sales.... More...
Lily Allen, Muse, Lemar and Radiohead's Thom Yorke were among the winners at the fifth BT Digital Music Awards 2006 in London last night. But iTunes was outgunned by a much smaller rival. Muse and... More...
Samsung is to take the digital music fight to Apple by launching its own song download service in the UK, France and Germany, the South Korean giant revealed today. Details of the service remain scarce,... More...
An influential group of politicians in the UK have stressed the need for consumers to be made fully aware of any restrictions on digital music prior to purchase. Analyzing the different copy protection systems in... More...
In an effort to better track digital music sales, several big-name record companies, digital music services and music rights agencies have founded a consortium called Digital Data Exchange. The purpose of DDEX (pronounced "dee-dex") is... More...
In a move that could completely change online music stores, the French are due to vote on a bill that would free propriety copy protection formats. At the moment if you buy a song on... More...
EA has announced a new partnership with Nettwerk Music Group. Nettwerk Music Group is a Canadian record company. This will establish a brand new digital music distrubtion label under EA recordings. EA has built up... More...
Portable music player sales will reach 124 million units by the year 2009, or roughly five times the 26.4 million sold in 2004 according to research firm IDC. The company predicts the increases will... More...
Today at 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, Microsoft and Nokia announced an agreement to give Nokia handsets the benefit of Windows Media Audio and Windows Media Digital Rights Management 10. Microsoft and Nokia... More...
RealNetworks went all Crazy Larry on us recently, kicking off a limited-time promotion in which it sold tracks for the insane price of 49 cents per song at its Real Player Music Store. Competitors hover... More...
Online auctioneer eBay has announced that it is allowing a select group of its customers to begin selling digital-music files over its Web site as part of a test to see if the company can... More...
A US Congress subcommittee met this week to debate a consumer rights cat that affects digital music. The consumer rights act aims to liberalize what users can do with digital music, but entertainment-industry representatives warn... More...
As the early buzz over new music services such as Apple Computer's iTunes fades, record labels and technology companies are struggling to turn the services into profitable businesses. Speaking at the iHollywood... More...
Hewlett-Packard Co., one of several computer companies pushing into the consumer electronics market, plans to launch an HP-branded online music store in the first quarter, most likely at a January trade show, an HP executive... More...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. HWP.N took aim at consumers' living rooms with the launch on Wednesday of an Internet-ready home digital music center that it hopes will build a market where... More...