March 07: It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre highlighting a free music podcast. This week, we’ve looked at classical music for piano, dj mixes from DJ Steveboy, guitar music from Ottmar Liebert, soundtrack music from ReGenesis, Flyinshoes Radio‚Äôs free americana music, and the world of 8-bit […]

March 06: It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre highlighting a free music podcast. Previously, we‚Äôve highlighted a free electronic music podcast, a classical music podcast, an Americana music podcast and more. Today’s podcast is Blibb Blobb – The Chiptune Podcast. It’s a great example of how […]

March 05: 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 with free music podcasts. Previously, we‚Äôve highlighted a free electronic music podcast, a classical music podcast, and a free music podcast from guitarist Ottmar Liebert. If you like Americana […]

On Friday, the United States Copyright Royalty Board announced new royalty rates for webcasts, effective from 2006 to 2010. The new rates force webcasters to pay for each traditionally copyrighted song streamed to each user, and increase over the next few years as follows: 2006: $0.0008 to stream one song to one listener 2007: $.0011 […]

TASCAM has introduced a new MP3 player specifically designed for musicians, the MP-GT1. The portable audio player features variable-speed playback, guitar effects and pitch-shifting. MP3s can be played at slower speed without changing the pitch, and sections can be seamlessly looped while practicing tricky passages. Song playback can be pitched up or down to match […]

March 03: 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. Previously, we’ve highlighted a free electronic music podcast and a classical music podcast. Both of these podcasts are radio-show style podcasts, combining music and […]

A little-known Texas firm, Texas MP3 Technologies, is suing Apple, Samsung Electronics, and Sandisk for patent-infringement, based on their use of MP3 technology. Texas MP3 Technologies alleges infringement on U.S. patent 7,065,417, which was awarded in June 2006 to multimedia chip-maker SigmaTel and covers “an MPEG portable sound reproducing system and a method for reproducing […]

March 02: 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. If you haven’t discovered it yet, check out DJ Steveboy’s Podrunner podcast. DJ Steveboy is an LA DJ that creates two podcasts, Podrunner, which […]

A supplier of tinnitus treatment products, T-Gone Remedies, is calling for warning labels to be printed on MP3 players, especially those with the output capabilities of the Apple iPod, which can reach 120 decibels. iPods and other portable media players have come under increased critical attention in the last year or so – being blamed […]

Gizmodo has put out a call to boycott the RIAA during March. We thought that we’d support their boycott at first. But then we realized that spending a month thinking about the RIAA doesn’t sound like much fun, and is probably pretty pointless – especially when there’s already so much music legally available as free […]