Music Stories

'Record Store Day' 2024 Includes Talking Heads, Daft Punk, Cheech & Chong, Beatles 20
Song Lyrics Have Become Simpler and More Repetitive Over the Last Five Decades 143
Chechnya Is Banning Music That's Too Fast Or Slow 229
Top Musicians Among Hundreds Warning Against Replacing Human Artists With AI 162
Pythagoras Was Wrong: There Are No Universal Musical Harmonies, Study Finds 73
Vinyl Records Outsell CDs For the Second Year Running 142
Tennessee Becomes First State To Protect Musicians, Other Artists Against AI 23
Adobe's New Prototype Generative AI Tool Is the 'Photoshop' of Music-Making and Editing 51
Hacker Uses Raspberry Pi and AI To Block Noisy Neighbor's Music 93
EU to Fine Apple $500M+ for Stifling Music Competitors Like Spotify 117
Spotify's Layoffs Put an End To a Musical Encyclopedia 21
Joe Rogan Gets New Spotify Deal Worth Up To $250 Million 134
YouTube Says It Has More Than 100 Million Premium and Music Subscribers 48
Remembering The 1970s-Era Technology of Devo 43
Now Musicians' Union Threatens Possible Strike Over AI, Streaming Media 64
Music Streaming Platforms Must Pay Artists More, Says EU 58
Harmonix Is Ending Rock Band DLC Releases After 16 Years, 2,800 Songs 15
Ken Fritz Built a $1 Million Stereo. The Real Cost Was Unfathomable. 222
'Artificial Creativity' Music Software For Commodore Amiga Unearthed 39
Music Streams Hit 4 Trillion in 2023 21
Ask Slashdot: Does Anyone Still Use Ogg Vorbis Format? 148
An AI-powered Holographic Elvis Concert is Coming to Las Vegas (and the UK) 39
Spotify's Editorial Playlists Are Losing Influence Amid AI Expansion 14
Could We Build a Concert Venue in Space? 75
The Excitement of 70,000 Swifties Can Shake the Earth 46
After KISS's Final Show, They'll Become Digital Avatars From Industrial Light & Magic 93
Spotify To Phase Out Service In Uruguay Following New Copyright Bill 36
Sonos Teases Plans To Enter Headphones Product Category 25
The Final Beatles Song, 'Now and Then,' Featuring All Four Members and AI, Released 63
CarPlay? Android Auto? Most People Still Just Listen to AM/FM Radio 209
Musicians Are Angry About Venues Taking T-shirt Money 89
India's Early Electronic Music From the '70s Is Finally Being Released 38
Spotify Is Adding Auto-Generated Transcripts To Millions of Podcasts 14
Elvis Is Back in the Building, Thanks to Generative AI - and U2 27
Google Podcasts Shutting Down In 2024 For YouTube Music 22
Stability AI Brings Text-To-Audio Generation To the Masses 8
Apple To Acquire Major Classical Music Labels BIS Records 26
Spotify To Cut Back Promotional Spending on White Noise Podcasts 41
Record Companies Sue Internet Archive For Preserving Old 78 Rpm Recordings 73
Google and Universal Music Discuss Making an AI Tool To Replicate Artists' Voices 44
Nerdcore Is Dead (Long Live Nerdcore) 35
Meta Releases AudioCraft AI Tool To Create Music From Text 25
Spotify Hikes Prices of Premium Plans 59
Plex's Winamp-inspired Music Player Plexamp is Now Free 46
Vibrating Haptic Suits Give Deaf People a New Way To Feel Live Music 19
Silence Is a 'Sound' You Hear, Study Suggests 68
The Technology Behind the New Las Vegas Sphere 71
Jony Ive's First Post-Apple Hardware Project is a $60,000 Turntable 128
Grammys CEO: Music Containing AI-Created Elements Eligible 14
100 Bands Including RATM Boycott Venues Using Facial Recognition Technology 46
SiriusXM To Shut Down Stitcher Podcast App 15
New Video Shows a Flyby of the Planet Mercury - with AI-Assisted Music 14
New Grammy Award Rules Require Human Input, Curb AI Use 38
Spotify Plans New Premium Tier, Expected To Include HiFi Audio 50
Sir Paul McCartney Says AI Has Enabled a 'Final' Beatles Song 56
Music Pirates Are Not Terrorists, Record Labels Argue In Court 46
A Group of Workers at Bandcamp Just Voted to Unionize 23
Congress Moves To Preserve AM Radio in Cars 260
Saving AM Radio - the Case For and Against 282
Google Makes Its Text-To-Music AI Public 16
Fairphone's User-Repairable Headphones Will Offer Spare Parts Through Its App 13
Grimes Unveils Software To Mimic Her Voice 49
New Senate Bill Could Force Ticket Sellers To Disclose Their Fees Upfront 115
Grimes Tells Fans To Deepfake Her Music, Will Split 50% Royalties With AI 63
Sonos' Exciting New Product Category Is Commercial Audio 39
Universal Music Asks Streaming Services To Block AI Access To Its Songs 84
Streaming Services Urged To Clamp Down on AI-Generated Music 108
AI-Generated Viral Videos are Already Here 23
Music Labels Win Legal Battle Against Youtube-dl's Hosting Provider 45
AM Radio to Be Dropped in All Ford New Models Except Commercial Vehicles 145
Audible is Testing Ad-Supported Access To Select Titles For Non-Members 21
Duolingo Is Working On a Music App 8
Vinyl Outsold CDs for the First Time Since 1987 129
2024 Ford Mustang Drops AM Radio From Infotainment 218
Apple Launches Its New Classical Music Streaming App For Preorder 47
Spotify's Biggest Update in Over a Decade Includes 'Entirely New' Home Feed, CEO Says 46
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence On Right To Repair 17
Spotify Is Testing Playlists That Could Be Unlocked By NFT Holders 54
Spotify Hits 205 Million Paid Subscribers 37
A Welsh Brand of McDonald's Plays Classical Music, Rations Wi-Fi To Deter Anti-Social Behavior 66
Google Created an AI That Can Generate Music From Text Descriptions, But Won't Release It 52
Podcast Exclusivity Is Quickly Becoming an Outdated Strategy 47
Microsoft Has Copied the Best Windows Audio App 41
New Sony Walkman Music Players Feature Stunning Good Looks, Android 12 48
Belarus Legalizes Piracy of Movies, Music and Software of 'Unfriendly' Nations 198
The Tech Pioneer Behind Sound Blaster Has Passed Away 79
'Metropolis', Sherlock Holmes Finally Enter the Public Domain 95 Years Later 87
FSF Warns: Stay Away From iPhones, Amazon, Netflix, and Music Steaming Services 199
You Can Hook Your MIDI Keyboard Up To a Website With Firefox 108 79
Apple Music Is Getting a Karaoke Mode 11
New Winamp Update Adds Features, Fixes, and (Sigh) Support For 'Music NFTs' 47
Apple Engineer Says Lossless Isn't the Be-all And End-all of Audio Quality 208
Last.fm Turns 20 6
As US Investigates Ticketmaster, Botched Sale of Taylor Swift Tickets Fuels Monopoly Criticisms 94
Apple AirPods Can Work As More Affordable Hearing Aids, Study Finds 46
Libraries Are Launching Their Own Local Music Streaming Platforms 6
Low Notes Really Do Get People Dancing, Research Finds 30
Free 'Amazon Music' Members Complain Its 100M-Song Catalog Can Only Be Played on Shuffle 96
Swedish Engineer Creates Playable Accordion From 2 Commodore 64 Computers 26
Meta's AI-Powered Audio Codec Promises 10x Compression Over MP3 98
Sound Burger Portable Record Player Returns From the '80s With Bluetooth, USB-C 62
Amazon Prime Now Comes With a Full Music Catalog of 100 Million Songs and Ad-free Podcasts 61
Bono Apologizes for 2014 iTunes Album Stunt, Remembers Pitching Steve Jobs a U2 iPod 67
Hacker Jailed For Stealing Ed Sheeran's Unreleased Music 28
RIAA Flags 'Artificial Intelligence' Music Mixer As Emerging Copyright Threat 45
'AI Music Generators Could Be a Boon For Artists - But Also Problematic' 48
YouTube, Spotify Remove QAnon Anthem After Original Composer Asserts Copyright 72
Geek Writes a Song a Day for 13 Years, Celebrates Song #5,000 With Big NFT Auction 55
Twitter Is Becoming a Podcast App 16
YouTube Launches a Dedicated 'Explore' Page For Podcasts 7
Old Laptop Hard Drives Will Allegedly Crash When Exposed To Janet Jackson Music 59
Thieves Stole $23 Million in One of the Largest YouTube Royalties Scams Ever 38
Spotify Tests Selling Concert Tickets Directly To Fans 14
Winamp, the Best MP3 Player of the 1990s, Receives Major Update 127
New Windows Media Player App Travels Back in Time, Gains the Ability To Rip CDs 65
YouTube Ends Lofi Girl's Two-Year-Long Music Stream Over Bogus DMCA Warning 74
Four Tet Wins Royalty Battle Over Streaming Music 12
Spotify Ready To Take On Amazon In Audiobooks 22
'Father of MIDI' Dave Smith Dies At 72 30
Vangelis, Composer of Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner Soundtracks, Dies Ages 79 30
Napster Gets Bought Again, This Time With a Web3 Pivot in the Works 36
How Industrial Light & Magic Helped Resurrect ABBA with Digital ABBA-Tars 46
Classic Japanese Audio Brand Onkyo Files For Bankruptcy 70
Windows 11's Sound Recorder Is Bringing Back Features Removed Years Ago 30
Podcasting Will Be Worth $4 Billion By 2024 24
Daniel Ek Invests $50 Million Into Spotify: 'I Believe Our Best Days Are Ahead' 12
Apple Music Is Installing Itself To the Dock, Booting Out Other Apps 50
Sonos Is About To Introduce Its Own Voice Assistant 14
Researchers Develop a Paper-Thin Loudspeaker 66
Cop Admits To Playing Copyrighted Music Through Squad Car PA To Keep Videos Off YouTube 127
Bigger Sound In Smaller Packages, As Sonos Buys Mayht For $100 Million 42
How a Ukranian Soldier's Instagram Post Spawned the First New Pink Floyd Song in 28 Years 60
Music Improves Wellbeing and Quality of Life, Research Suggests 44
How the Music Industry Survived the Internet. Sort of. 152
Spotify Draws Up Plans To Join NFT Digital Collectibles Craze 12
The Original Winamp Skin Is Selling As An NFT 47
CD Sales Grow for First Time Since 2004 65
LimeWire is Back - as an NFT Marketplace 25
LimeWire Plots a Return 18
Epic Games Purchases Bandcamp 18
How Fake Song Lyrics Ended Up On Spotify 26
Algorithms, Copyrights, or Clueless Industry Executives: What's Killing New Music? 256
Spotify Support Buckles Under Complaints From Angry Neil Young Fans 599
Spotify Removes Neil Young's Music After He Objects To Joe Rogan's Podcast 449
Podcasting Hasn't Produced A New Hit in Years 109
Meet Boomy, the AI Software That Could Turn You In To a Music Star 47
Bowie Estate Sells Songwriting Catalog to Warner Music 23
How Peter Jackson's Beatles Documentary Used Custom AI To Remove Background Noise 44
Guitarist Eric Clapton Successfully Sues Woman For Posting $11 Bootleg 183
Apple Is Rebuilding Apple Music As a Full Native App 38
'The Insane Resurgence of Vinyl Records' 190
Apple Users Cancel Spotify Over Lack of HomePod Support 71
Adele Gets Spotify To Take Shuffle Button Off All Album Pages 242
Winamp Prepares a Relaunch 84
The World's Largest Record Company Is Creating an NFT Super Group 73
The Rolling Stones Recreate 'Start Me Up' Video With Boston Dynamics Robot Dog 'Spot' 33
Apple's iPod Came Out Two Decades Ago 103
Amazon is Building a Clubhouse Competitor That Turns Hosts Into DJs 25
Vinyl Is Selling So Well That It's Getting Hard To Sell Vinyl 89
Apple's 3rd-Generation AirPods Arrives Next Week With a New Design, Spatial Audio 9
AI Completed Beethoven's Unfinished Tenth Symphony 64
YouTube Blocks 31st Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony, Citing Copyright on a Recording from 1914 130
Qualcomm Debuts Lossless Bluetooth Audio Streaming With aptX Lossless 96
Apple Acquires 'Primephonic' To Bolster Standalone Apple Music Classical App In 2022 22
YouTube Kills Discord's Best Music Bot 27
Sonos Gets Early Patent Victory Against Google Smart Speakers 60
'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli's One-of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Clan Album Sold By US Government 46
Vinyl Album Sales Jump 108% In First 6 Months of 2021 110
Music Streaming Inquiry Finds 'Pitiful Returns' For Performers 108
Automattic, Owner of Tumblr and WordPress, Buys Podcast App Pocket Casts 20
No, Open Source Audacity Audio Editor Is Not 'Spyware' 125
To Help Livestreamers Avoid Copyright Violations, Riot Games Releases an Uncopyrighted Album 31
California Police Officer Plays Taylor Swift Song To Try To Block Video From YouTube 172
Why the Music Industry Doesn't Hate YouTube Any More 44
Apple Music is Getting Lossless and Spatial Audio Support 80
A Podcast App is Exposing Subscribers-only Shows 15
Amazon Is Turning Hit Sci-Fi Podcast 'From Now' Into a TV Show 16
Sennheiser Sells Its Consumer Audio Business To Hearing Aid Specialist Sonova 65
Spotify Is Raising Prices For Lots of Its Plans 59
Spotify Is Launching Podcast Subscriptions, and Unlike Apple Won't Take a Cut From Creators 11
Apple Will Let Podcasters Sell Subscriptions and Keep a Cut For Itself 37
Songwriters Are Getting Drastically Short-Changed In the Music-Streaming Economy, Study Shows 184
Apple Music Reveals How Much It Pays When You Stream a Song 55
Mixed Reactions to New Nirvana Song Generated by Google's AI 88
Spotify Jumps Into Social Audio, Acquires Sports-Focused Live Audio App 15
'Monopolists and Oligopolists' May Be Devastating the Lives of Recording Artists 130
Sonos Targets Audiophiles By Adding 24-Bit Qobuz Streaming To S2 Platform 104
Apple Discontinues Original HomePod 38
Elon Musk Crowns Himself 'Technoking' of Tesla, Drops Techno Track About NFTs 80
Lou Ottens, Inventor of the Cassette Tape, Has Died 103
Turntable.fm Is Back From the Dead 12
iOS 14.5 Won't Actually Let You Change a Default Music Service 22
Square To Buy Jay-Z's Music Service Tidal 26
Spotify Expands To 80 New Markets, Targeting 1 Billion Customers 25
Spotify HiFi is a Lossless Streaming Tier Coming Later this Year 71
SoundCloud To Let Fans Pay Artists Directly 15
Google Will Delete Users' Play Music Library Later This Month 63
10 Years After Its Discontinuation, Some Fans Still Love Microsoft's Zune Mp3 Player 84
Spotify's Big Bet On Podcasts Is Failing, Citi Says 64
How The Band Phish Played Chess Against Its Fans on New Year's Eve 14
Most-Played Song of 2020? For Many It's White Noise 59
Spotify's Podcasting Problem: Loophole Allows Remixes and Unreleased Songs To Hide in Plain Sight 24
Amazon To Buy Podcast Maker Wondery 5
Tesla Update Turns Cars into Boomboxes, Adds Three In-Car Videogames and Customizable Honking 83
Square Has Discussed Acquiring Jay-Z's Tidal Service 4
Spotify Resets Passwords After a Security Bug Exposed Users' Private Account Information 19
This Robot Can Rap 29
Spotify Invents AI Tech That Will Police Songwriter Plagiarism 47
Spotify Says It's Dominating the Podcasting Market Because of a Million-Plus Tiny Podcasts 11
Doctor Who's Sonic Pioneers Will Turn the Internet Into a Giant Musical Instrument 12
Twitch Users Protest Its DMCA Policy By Streaming Videos With Homemade Sound Effects 126
Google Is Reportedly Working On Linking Up Nest Audio Speakers With Chromecast Streaming Devices 16
RIP Google Music, One of the Company's Last Examples of Generosity 97
Twitch Says It's In Talks To License Music, Tells Users To Delete Videos With Unauthorized Tracks 76
Ticketmaster To Require Negative COVID-19 Test Or Vaccination To Attend Concerts 152
The Eerie AI World of Deepfake Music 44
RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub 62
Spotify Will Boost Music In Exchange For Cut of Royalties 36
Apple Says Some AirPods Pro Have Sound Problems, Will Replace For Free 15
RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites 99
Twitch Suddenly Mass-Deletes Thousands of Videos, Citing Music Copyright Claims 75
92-Year-Old Songwriter Tom Lehrer Releases All His Lyrics Into the Public Domain 79
'youtube-dl' Downloading Software Removed From GitHub By RIAA Takedown Notice 186
Apple Launches 'Apple Music TV', a 24-Hour Music Video Livestream 22
Google Music Shuts Down Smart Speaker Support and Music Store 46
Google Introduces Song Matching via Humming, Whistling or Singing 25
Apple Announces Smaller HomePod Mini For $99 13
Slashback: How Eddie Van Halen Hacks a Guitar 50
Spotify Now Lets You Search For Songs By Lyrics 10
Is Streaming Music Worse For the Environment? 63
Amazon Remasters Streaming Tracks in Effort To Woo Subscribers 70
Apple Officially Obsoletes Last iPod Nano Model 14
Amid the Pandemic's Urban Quiet, a Song That Makes Sense 9
Amazon Music Now Has Podcasts 15
Vinyl-Record Sales Top Compact Discs for First Time in 34 Years 114
Spotify Is Developing a 'Virtual Events' Feature 14
Google Play Music Shutdown Dates Set: Service To Be Replaced by YouTube Music by End of 2020 76
Google Threatens to Remove All Danish Music From YouTube 83
Spotify CEO: Musicians Can No Longer Release Music Only 'Once Every 3-4 Years' 105
MP3 Turns 25 80
Elon Musk Says Neuralink Will Stream Music Straight Into Your Brain 128
Scientists Say You Can Cancel the Noise But Keep Your Window Open 67
Metronome or Music Computer? Music Geek Tries the Raspberry Pi/Linux-Based 'Organelle' 41
Data Scientist Tries AI/Human Collaboration For Audio-Visual Art 26
'Biologically Plausible' Deep Learning Neurons Predict the Chords of Bach 24
Twitch Streamers Receive a Flood of Music Copyright Claims For Old Clips 45
On Facebook and YouTube, Classical Musicians Are Getting Blocked or Muted 46
Apple's Rumored Over-Ear Headphones Feature Head and Neck Detection, Custom Equalizer Settings 35
YouTube Music Adds a Transfer Option Ahead of Google Play Music's Shutdown this Year 62
Sonos Cofounder Hits Back at Spotify CEO Daniel Ek For Complaining About Apple 40

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