Streaming music may be all the rage but you can't beat good old fashioned free MP3 downloads when you're on the move and struggling for internet connection. What's more, most of the mobile streaming services require a paid or pro account. So, instead,...

After nearly 90 years on the high street, HMV is to add a digital element to its music retailing with the opening of a new online MP3 store.

The service, HMVdigital, will be powered by digital specialist 7digital, who HMV bought a 50 per cent...

Fairsharemusic opened its doors this week, offering a music download service with a difference - because if you use fairsharemusic, you'll not only have access to download over 8.5 million tracks from many of the major labels, you'll also be raising...

YouTube has become as an important source of music as any these days. It just so happens that the songs all have to have a visual component to them as well - whether you actually watch them or not.

Of course, if you'd rather not have to navigate...

MP3 tag cleaning tool TuneUp has been available for iTunes for some time, but it's just launched a new version that also works with Windows Media Player.

If you have a big pile of poorly-tagged MP3s, but you don't want to spend the time sifting...

Many people who try Spotify find that they rapidly shift all their music listening over to it. As it's often quicker to find a particular track in Spotify than to sift through a huge folder of MP3s, the latter sometimes gets dumped in favour of searching...

At the Midem conference in Cannes, a new audio format has been proposed by the co-inventor of the MP3 and a Norwegian company called Bach. It's called MusicDNA, and bolts a huge pile of extra rich media content on to the music.

The idea is...

In the States, Amazon has announced it will be repeating a holiday tradition on its Amazon MP3 store which started last year.  

Dubbed "25 Days of Free", every day this month up until Christmas, the online retailer will provide a new Christmas-themed...