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MusicDNA Format Proposed At Midem
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Oxford University Bans Spotify
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Spotify Premium Growing Fast
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VIDEOS: Best Retro Gaming Music Picks
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Spotify update revamps related artists
First step towards a recommendations system 3 February 2010 12:16 GMTSpotify has rolled out a small update to its desktop client - the first in a few months. Bringing the version number up to 0.3.23, the update adds a "related artists" tab to artist pages which allows you to see what bands sound similar to whatever you're currently listening...
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Five music hacks from the future
Experimental audio mashups straight outta Stockholm 2 February 2010 17:33 GMTWhat did you do last weekend? Cleaned the house? Watched some football? Had a few friends over? In Stockholm, a group of coders were far too busy for any of that. Instead, they hunkered down and built the future of music at Stockholm Music Hack Day.
The event,...
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We7 launches subscription packages
Two options offered - with mobile access and without 27 January 2010 9:58 GMTMusic streaming service We7 has announced a couple of subscription packages for its web-based audio offering. There's a version that just removes the ads, and a version that also enables mobile phone access.
The ad-removing version is called We7 Premium. It will...
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Spotify's Premium service growing fast
Hits 250,000 paid subscribers 26 January 2010 12:21 GMTAt the MIDEM conference in Cannes, Spotify has revealed that it's managed to convert more than 250,000 of its total 7 million users to its paid service, which costs £10 per month. If our sums are right, that means revenues of about £2.5 million, before advertising is...
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MusicDNA format proposed as successor to MP3
Adds rich metadata to music files 25 January 2010 9:51 GMTAt 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 to make buying legal...
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HP computers get Omnifone preloaded
European deal for streaming music service 25 January 2010 9:18 GMTHP has announced that it'll be launching its own streaming music service that'll be pre-loaded on sixteen models of its desktop and laptop computer range. The tunes will be supplied by UK-based Omnifone, which also runs a mobile music service called MusicStation.
When...
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UK Amazon MP3 for Android officially announced
Download music on your handset 21 January 2010 11:27 GMTSo we knew this was coming, thanks to early leaks of the contents of Google's Nexus One, and we showed you how to get the app early on your phone, but now it's official.
Unlike the early edition of the app, it now works on Android 1.5 devices. In fact there seem...
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Virgin Media music service will be called MusicFish
Download offering will cost £6.50 per month 21 January 2010 10:40 GMTVirgin Media has given a name to its forthcoming music download service - "MusicFish" - and according to reports in Marketing magazine it'll be launching to the public in July. The company says that it's "making good progress".
The company, which already offers...
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VIDEO: Misa launches touchscreen Digital Guitar
MIDI controller instrument demonstrated 20 January 2010 12:59 GMTAn Australian company called Misa has built a digital guitar that replaces the strings of a regular guitar with a touchscreen. It has 144 buttons on the neck for generating MIDI notes, which are then modified by pressure and position on the touchpad.
"In electronic...
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Rock Band Network to enter public beta testing
Harmonix opening UGC store up 19 January 2010 15:47 GMTHarmonix has confirmed that the Rock Band Network will be opening up for beta access imminently. As previously reported on Pocket-lint, the service offers anyone the chance to upload music that they've created and make it purchasable in the Xbox 360 edition of the massively...
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Pioneer teases new product image
What could it be? 19 January 2010 15:13 GMTPioneer, the sly dog, is teasing some sort of new audio product on its Twitter and Facebook pages. That's it above. The company says: "Here's an exclusive preview of our newest upcoming product, can you guess what it is?"
It's evidently some sort of music device....
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VIDEOS: Best retro gaming music picks
Get these classics stuck in your head... 18 January 2010 17:59 GMTWith the news just in that the Ivor Novello Awards has announced the Best Original Video Game Score as a new category for this year's awards, it got us thinking wistfully about memorable music from video games past.
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Get your Last.fm recommendations in Spotify
Spotibot updates its functionality 18 January 2010 17:34 GMTAnother improvement has been rolled out to Spotify recommendations engine Spotibot. The service, which aims to help users find music they like, but just don't know yet, has added Last.fm integration.
What that means is that instead of having to put in a song or...
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Oxford University bans Spotify
Students enraged 18 January 2010 13:02 GMTIt's being reported that Oxford University, one of the UK's foremost academic institutions, has banned the use of music streaming service Spotify from its network. The University's computing services department, OUCS, has pinned the blame on the large amounts of data...
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Thumbplay launches streaming music service
CES 2010: Available on BlackBerry phones and as an Adobe AIR app 13 January 2010 18:00 GMTThumbplay, a service that delivers ringtones and mobile games in the States, has launched a streaming music service at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The offering has content from all four major labels, as well as a host of independent aggregators, so your...
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Omnifone and Gracenote team up on cloud-based music solutions
Embedded music services due to more devices in 2010 12 January 2010 13:41 GMTA development from CES could see new cloud-based music solutions hitting PCs, phones, TVs, Blu-ray players, games consoles and more in the coming year.
Omnifone has announced it has expanded its relationship with Sony-owned Gracenote, integrating Gracenote's... -
PHOTOS: Gambridge guitar game controllers hands-on
CES 2010: Bridging the gap between real guitars and plastic ones 9 January 2010 23:44 GMTGambridge is a US company trying to turn the legions of Guitar Hero and Rock Band fans around the world into real guitarists. The company has created a guitar controller that you can use to play Rock Band with, but which actually has real strings.
Once you've...
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Spotify USA to launch with Nexus One?
Will streaming music service be brought to the States by Google? 4 January 2010 11:39 GMTSpeculation is floating around that Spotify could launch the long-promised US edition of its service as soon as 5 January, and that a deal has been reached with the labels that would allow the US access to the free edition of the software which has proved so popular in...
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Last.fm reveals 2009 statistics
Scrobbles scrutinised 29 December 2009 14:00 GMTLast.fm has announced the release of its annual Best of 2009 web "featurette" of what users of the social music service have been listening to the most in 2009.
With one big artist list (instead of artists/albums/tracks) expanded to a Top 40, Last.fm has split... -
Radio 1 to reveal best-selling songs of the Noughties
Official Charts Company stats to be unveiled on air from today 28 December 2009 10:00 GMTAs the Noughties draw to a close, BBC Radio 1 is set to unveil the charts of the decade – revealing which singles and albums have sold the most in the UK in the last 10 years.
Radio 1 will count down the Top 100 best-selling singles and albums of the... -
Deck your halls with Christmas music
How to get all the festive tunes you could want for free 24 December 2009 9:00 GMTIt's Christmas. The season of eating, drinking, making merry, and - most importantly - giving. So here's what we're giving you this Christmas - the gift of music. The gift of Cliff Richard, Mr Blobby, and Rage Against the Machine. We're giving you the gift of as much...
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Spotify publishes top tracks of 2009
Black Eyed Peas, Flo Rida and Lady Gaga take top spots 23 December 2009 16:42 GMTSpotify has announced its most listened-to tracks of 2009, based on the number of streams each track got across the six countries where the service is available.
The Black Eyed Peas took the top spot with "I Gotta Feeling", followed up closely by Flo Rida's "Right...
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We7 reveals most played songs and artists of 2009
Site pushing for official ad-funded streaming chart in 2010 23 December 2009 12:17 GMTOnline streaming service We7 has revealed its most-played songs and artists for 2009. As far as the last year goes, We7 says more and more music fans are choosing to listen to their favourite songs online and that it's enjoying "rapid growth".
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3 rolls out Spotify for its Symbian handsets
Music service linked from Planet 3 23 December 2009 10:30 GMTMobile network 3 has announced that its contract customers will shortly be able to get access to Spotify for Symbian handsets through the operator's "Planet 3" portal.
The service still costs the standard £10 per month, but the operator says "over 6 months" -...
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Simple Minds offers entire tour on USB stick
20 hours of tour recordings, plus soundchecks and backstage video footage 18 December 2009 15:00 GMTSimple Minds, the Scottish rock band best known for their hit, "Don't You (Forget About Me)", has done the same thing as several other bands, issuing a USB stick, except that they've gone a step further. They've put recordings of every single date on their tour on it.
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