Neowin News Feed for: Songs

Boom Audio Player 1.1

Razvan Serea — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 01:00:01 +0000

Boom is a lightweight, portable Windows music player forked from foobar2000, offering gapless playback, ReplayGain support, broad format compatibility, and simple, no‑frills local audio listening. Read more...

Spotify's UI update solves an old issue but stirs new complaints

David Uzondu — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:28:01 +0000

Spotify's latest update brings new features, fresh design, and one frustrating surprise that users didn't see coming. Read more...

SESAC removes a ton of songs from YouTube and YouTube Music due to a dispute

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 05:36:02 +0000

Thousands of songs from Adele, Nirvana, and others have been removed from YouTube and YouTube Music due to a dispute with SESAC. Read more...

Thom Yorke removes music from Spotify over business practices

Paul Ferson — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:33:55 +0000

Due to issues with streaming media and how it works, Radiohead front-man Thom Yorke has responded by removing his own work from the service. At present Radiohead's albums remain available to listen. Read more...

[Update] 10 billion songs served on iTunes

Andrew Lyle — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:06:49 +0000

Seven years after iTunes started selling music online, it has surpassed its next milestone, 10 billion songs downloaded. Apple was promoting the event of the 10 billionth song by offering the lucky downloader a... Read more...

Feel Free to Download 25 Million Songs - Legally

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:12:51 +0000

After a decade fighting to stop illegal file-sharing, the music industry will give fans today what they have always wanted: an unlimited supply of free and legal songs. With CD sales in free fall and... Read more...

All 74 Guitar Hero 3 (new) songs revealed

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:38:19 +0000

Here's an early leak of the complete 74 songs list in Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock. Of course developer Neversoft had hoped to keep the last remaining 14 songs a secret until the American... Read more...

Apple Lowers Price of DRM-Free Songs

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:58:11 +0000

Apple Incorporated has reversed its previous decision to charge an extra 30 cents for DRM-free tracks and has levelled the playing field from $1.29 to match the price of 99 cents for copy-protected tracks. It... Read more...

iTunes Store Tops Three Billion Songs

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:02:04 +0000

The iTunes Store said Tuesday it had passed a milestone, selling more than 3 billion songs since launching four years ago. The milestone came just six months after iTunes, Apple Inc.'s online music download service,... Read more...

Sharing Songs and Pictures with the Zune

Steven Parker — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:31:02 +0000

Duncan Mackenzie has posted video on how 2 Zunes communicate over Wi-Fi over at his blog. Hey folks, Brian and I managed to get our hands on some pre-production Zunes and we thought you might... Read more...

iTunes to Give Away 70 Million Songs

Steven Parker — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 07:51:45 +0000

Thanks slimy for this submission in Back Page news. Apple is teaming up with Coca-Cola in Europe for a huge iTunes giveaway, in which 70 million codes for free songs will be distributed inside packages... Read more...

iTunes Hits 1 Billion Songs

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:20:49 +0000

This morning, the iTunes music store announced that it had sold one billion songs. Asides from the significance for legal online music sales, it marked the end of a competition involving a $10,000... Read more...

iTunes Japan Shifts 1m Songs in Four Days

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:39:05 +0000

Apple Japan has sold more than one million songs to Japanese consumers since it opened its own iTunes Music Store last Thursday, the company said today. "iTunes has sold twice as many songs in just... Read more...

iTunes : Quarter Billion Songs Sold

Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:45:32 +0000

Apple today announced that they had sold a quarter billion (250m) songs from their iTunes music store. At a rate of 1.25m songs being sold daily, the store expects to be selling approx. half a... Read more...

iTunes Music Store Downloads Top 200 Million Songs

Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:47:43 +0000

Apple® today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 200 million songs from the iTunes® Music Store. The 200 millionth song was part of "The Complete U2" and was purchased by Ryan... Read more...

iMovie strips FairPlay DRM from iTunes songs

Wed, 04 Aug 2004 07:49:23 +0000

Macnews.de is reporting that iTunes copyright protection can be removed by using iMovie. "Apple's iMovie can be used to strip the FairPlay digital rights management protection (DRM) on iTunes songs, according to... Read more...

iTunes EU sells 800,000 songs in first week

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:37:02 +0000

The recently launched iTunes music store in Europe (by which we mean GB, FR, DE) claims to have sold 800,000 songs in its first week; a take of about Â£632,000 for Apple so far. Arguably... Read more...

Apple Sells 3.3 Million Songs on iTunes

Wed, 05 May 2004 19:11:51 +0000

Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday said it has sold 3.3 million songs on its iTunes online music store since that platform's relaunch one week ago, with nearly as many downloads of the new version of... Read more...

Music labels monitor P2P nets to list most popular songs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:02:38 +0000

Major record labels have been snooping onto the world's peer-to-peer song-sharing networks in a bid to measure which artists are proving popular among file-sharers. Media tracking company BigChampagne has been monitoring P2P services since 2000,... Read more...

Apple: Reselling iTunes songs 'impractical'

Tue, 09 Sep 2003 03:08:53 +0000

An Apple Computer executive on Monday downplayed recent questions over the download resale policy of the company's iTunes Music Store, saying technical if not legal barriers would largely prevent such transfers from taking place. ... Read more...

Audiogalaxy agrees to filter songs

Steven Parker — Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:39:43 +0000

Thanks eth3l for the heads up on this one. Audiogalaxy, a popular Internet file-swapping service, agreed Monday to filter copyrighted works as part of a legal settlement with the recording industry. Under the settlement,... Read more...

Downloading Files and Storms, download 6,000 songs in 2 days!

Fri, 08 Mar 2002 06:41:15 +0000

Found this over on my friendly Slashdot which points to an interesting article over on the New York Times.. Every year Michael Greene, the president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and... Read more...