Digital Music

Is iTunes Doomed?

Mar 26th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music

In the future, you won’t purchase music from iTunes and other music stores. Instead, you’ll rent it or get it as part of your mobile service, according to analysts at Pyramid Research. While music rental services have failed to make much of a dent in booming digital music market, the idea of buying music may […]



IndieFeed Features Free Music From Indie Artists

Mar 25th, 2007 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Digital Music

March 23: It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre going to do our best to hook you up a great free music podcast. We’re still on our way back from the Corporate Podcast Summit. We’re spending some unplanned time in Detroit, thanks to Northwest Airlines cancelling our […]



Free Podcast Reveals Mysteries of Ambient Music

Mar 24th, 2007 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Digital Music, Podcast Quickies

March 22: We‚Äôre on our way back from the Corporate Podcasting Summit, and we’re stuck in Detroit for a couple of days. There’s nothing like travelling 24 hours, to be almost home and then to find out your flight has been cancelled. We’re a little behind as a result, but we expect to get caught […]



Free Music From The Grateful Dead

Mar 23rd, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music, Podcast Quickies

March 21: We’ve looked at many types of music podcasts this month as part of our 31 Days of Free Music, ranging from free classical music shows to barrages of noise. You can’t look at free music without thinking about the Grateful Dead – one of the early supporters of DIY concert taping. Luckily for […]



Free Soul Music

Mar 21st, 2007 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Digital Music

March 20: It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre going to do our best to hook you up a great free music podcast. And if we should skip a day because we’ve got jet-lag and we’re suffering from nights of 2 hours of sleep, don’t worry. We’ve […]



CD Music Sales Down 20%

Mar 21st, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music

A lot of people are talking about the fact that CD sales are down by 20% from a year ago. While the music industry blames it on pirated music, there are more important reasons that CD sales are down: The compact disc is 25-year old technology; Mainstream music has stagnated; People are spending their entertainment […]



31 Days of Free Music: Thomas Dolby’s Free Video Podcast

Mar 21st, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music, Digital Video Downloads, Video, Video Podcasts

March 19: It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre going to do our best to hook you up a great free music podcast. OK – it’s not really March 19th – it’s the 21st and we’re a couple days behind on the free music project. It’s not […]



Walt Mossberg On Apple TV

Mar 21st, 2007 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Computer Hardware, Digital Music, Digital Video Downloads, iPods & Portable Media Players, Podcasting Software, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg has been test-driving an Apple TV for the last couple of weeks and calls it “a very well-designed product that easily brings the computer and the TV together.” “We’ve been testing Apple TV for the past 10 days or so, and our verdict is that it’s a beautifully designed, […]



Apple TV Makes Your HDTV The Biggest iPod Ever

Mar 21st, 2007 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Digital Music, Digital Video Downloads, iPods & Portable Media Players, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

Apple today started shipping Apple TV, a new class of computer peripheral that turns your HDTV into a big screen iPod. Apple TV connects physically to your television and wirelessly to a Mac or PC running iTunes. The device then lets you play iTunes content on your TV, including movies, TV shows, music, photos, podcasts […]



Free Music Podcast Features Daily Ambient Creations

Mar 18th, 2007 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Digital Music

March 18: We’ve looked at many types of music podcasts this month as part of our 31 Days of Free Music, ranging from free classical music shows to barrages of noise. Some of the most interesting music podcasts that we’ve found have been ones that use podcasting as a new medium. A great example is […]