Microsoft has announced that it’s going to keep its MSN Music authorization servers, currently on life support, alive for three more years.

This means that, if you bought music downloads from Microsoft’s service, you should be able to continue to listen to the music and put it on new devices or machines through 2011.

BusinessWeek has a review today of Belkin’s TuneStudio for iPod 5th generation, a four-channel audio mixer that lets you create high-quality digital recordings directly onto your iPod. TuneStudio lets you input up to four different instruments or audio sources, and record the audio directly onto your iPod. Per BusinessWeek: Although TuneStudio supports four simultaneous audio […]

OT: Cosmo’s Bethany Heitman has a got a tip for Your Fabulous Life: you can save money on music through wholesale music piracy! Heitman writes: “Having new tunes is ideal, but shelling out the cash to buy said music hurts. Call up friends, and ask them to burn you a CD of songs they think […]

The number of Americans that listen to radio at work is declining, as more and more people turn to Internet radio. According to data from the Arbitron/Edison Media Research Internet & Multimedia series of studies, among people who are employed full or part time and listen to radio at work, the portion listening most often […]

Senuti is a simple app that lets you copy songs from an iPod back to your Mac.  Got multiple Macs? This could be an easy way to put your music onto your extra machine.  To copy songs back to your computer, all you have to do is select the songs and click the transfer button […]

You almost have to feel sorry for the mainstream music industry. Almost. The major labels have teamed up with Napster to offer what they are calling “the world’s largest and most comprehensive MP3 store.” Yep – the labels are so intent on breaking Apple’s dominance in the world of digital music that they are giving […]

Mobile broadcast network FlyTunes has added video and audio podcasts to its offerings, in addition to a new user interface and a customizable channel guide. The new video and audio channels cover a wide range of topics, including news, entertainment, politics, kids & family, health, comedy, business and technology. FlyTunes now offers users over 350 […]

According to the Guardian’s Tim Anderson, DRM’d music is going to stage a comeback, and Apple’s going to be the one making it happen. The music industry wants to sell new services, like music subscriptions, and DRM’s is central to making these services viable. To succeed, though, subscription music services need to work with iPods […]

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an off-the-record explanation from an RIAA official on how they identify colleges and universities to target: The official explained that one way the RIAA identifies pirates is by using LimeWire, a popular peer-to-peer file-sharing program that is free online and used by many college students (there is also a […]

The Wall Street Journal reports that Warner Music Group losses increased in the fiscal second quarter as the company continues to struggle with a drop-off in sales of compact discs as consumers shift toward digital music. The company remains “excited about the long-term prospects for our business”, according to Chairman and Chief Executive Edgar Bronfman […]