Magnatune is using some great pro-podcasting propaganda at its site to promote music podcasting. The Podcasting is Selling Music logo parodies a 1980’s campaign by the British Phonograph Industry, Home Taping is Killing Music. Despite the best C30-C60-C90 efforts of home tape-makers, music somehow survived. Magnatune is a net music label that specializes in Creative-Commons […]

Apple has confirmed reports that the iPhone will be released in the United States in June. The company sent an email Tuesday to people who had signed up at the Apple site to receive information about the innovative mobile device: “Talk to you soon. Thanks for signing up. You’ll be the first to hear the […]

New options for Apple TV appear to be in the works. Blogger Eirik Solheim noticed that the Apple Store now shows a “Select your Apple TV” option, though only one option is available. The “Select” option is displayed when you can select from several Apple products. We haven’t seen any announcement from Apple about this, […]

Microsoft’s Zune system will eventually get DRM-free music, according to Zune marketing director Jason Reindorp, but the company has no time frame for offering songs without copy-protection. In February of this year, Reindorp called Steve Jobs’ push for the music industry to drop DRM ‚Äúirresponsible, or at the very least na√Øve.‚Äù ‚ÄúIt‚Äôs like he‚Äôs on […]

The Philadelphia Orchestra has launched Podchestra, a trial series of orchestral podcasts. The Orchestra‚Äôs first podcast features: interviews with young artists who perform with the Orchestra in April, the ‚ÄúMonth of Rising Stars‚Äù; stories about memorable Orchestra debuts; and a look into the lives of the Orchestra‚Äôs musicians. You can preview the podcast below, or […]

Napster today announced that it now has 830,000 paid subscribers and anticipates reporting more than $28 million in revenue for Q1 2007. “Napster concludes our fiscal year 2007 with over 830,000 paid subscribers, which we believe makes us the largest on demand music subscription service in the industry, with a paid subscriber base that is […]

Consumer Electronics Association President and CEO Gary Shapiro offered his support today for an announcement from Apple and EMI Music that Apple will offer the entire digital music catalog of EMI Music DRM-free in a high quality format. “CEA applauds Apple and EMI Music for recognizing what consumers really want out of their digital music […]

Apple today announced that EMI Music‚Äôs entire digital catalog of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the iTunes Store worldwide starting in May. DRM-free tracks from EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for $1.29 per song. In addition, iTunes customers will be able to […]

EMI Music, in a joint event with Apple, announced today that it is launching new premium downloads for retail on a global basis, making all of its digital repertoire available at a much higher sound quality than existing downloads and free of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions. Here are the slides from the announcement….

EMI Music, in a joint event with Apple, announced today that it is launching new premium downloads for retail on a global basis, making all of its digital repertoire available at a much higher sound quality than existing downloads and free of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions. The new higher quality DRM-free music will complement […]