Music Stories for 2013

Unreleased 1963 Beatles Tracks On Sale To Preserve Copyright 230
Ask Slashdot: Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians? 328
Ask Slashdot: Best FLOSS iTunes Replacement In 2013? 317
Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off 370
App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music 392
Spotify's Own Math Suggests Musicians Are Still Getting Hosed 244
Piracy Offers Heavy Metal a New Business Model 246
Winamp Shutting Down On December 20 400
Real-Time Radio Search Engine From Music Industry's Nemesis 59
Music Industry Issues Take Down Notices to 50 Major Lyrics Sites 281
Hacker Spoofs Track Plays To Top Music Charts 157
Ask Slashdot: Best Cross-Platform (Linux-Only) Audio Software? 223
More Evidence That Piracy Can Increase Sales 196
New Headphones Generate Sound With Carbon Nanotubes 102
MuseScore Aims Make 50,000 New Braille Scores Available To Blind Musicians 49
BitTorrent "Bundles" Create Cash Registers Inside Artwork 97
Open Well-Tempered Clavier: a Kickstarter Campaign For Open Source Bach 70
How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business 617
Why iTunes Radio Could Take Down Pandora 166
Why Steve Albini Still Prefers Analog Tape 440
New Musopen Campaign Wants To "Set Chopin Free" 142
Ministry of Sound Suing Spotify Over User Playlists 201
Newest YouTube User To Fight a Takedown: Lawrence Lessig 154
Can There Be Open Source Music? 183
Amarok 2.8 "Return To the Origin" Released 99
VLC For iOS Returns On July 19, Rewritten and Fully Open-Sourced 203
Radiohead's Thom Yorke Pulls Albums From Spotify In Protest of Low Royalties 301
Piracy Rates Plummet As Legal Alternatives Come To Norway 261
Secrets of Beatboxing Revealed By MRI 49
How DRM Won 221
How Copyright Makes Books and Music Disappear 128
Why Automakers Should Stop the Infotainment Arms Race 317
MagicPlay: the Open Source AirPlay 177
Kickass Torrents' KAT.ph Domain Seized By Philippine Authorities 122
Birthday Song's Copyright Leads To a Lawsuit For the Ages 442
FLAC Gets First Update In 6 Years 197
Happy Culture Freedom Day! 45
Records Labels Prepare Massive 'Pirate Site' Domain Blocking Blitz 110
Astronaut Chris Hadfield Performs Space Oddity On the ISS 212
Israeli Singer Publishes a Song In Hebrew — and Perl 69
BitTorrent Bundle Puts a Music Store Inside Torrents 78
"Terrorist" Lyrics Land High Schooler In Jail 573
iTunes Store Turns 10 184
Smithsonian Releases 128-Year-Old Recording of Alexander Graham Bell 122
DMCA Safe Harbor May Not Apply To Old Copyrighted Works 139
Aereo Ruling Could Impact Pandora 107
Twitter Launches the World's Umpteenth Online Music Site 45
Apple Near Deal For Radio Service 143
Twitter Adding Music Recommendation 22
Ask Slashdot: How Can a Blind Singer 'See' the Choirmaster's Baton? 189
Judge Rules That Resale of MP3s Violates Copyright Law 294
Boston Cops Go Undercover Online To Crack Down on Concerts 229
Direct-to-Vinyl Recording Makes a Comeback (Video) 166
Scientists Study Getting an Unwanted Tune Out of Your Head 219
Can You Really Hear the Difference Between Lossless, Lossy Audio? 749
V&A Scraps Napalm Death Gig For Fear Decibel Levels Will Damage Sculptures 79
Jammie Thomas Denied Supreme Court Appeal 347
Veoh Once Again Beats UMG (After Going Out of Business) 229
Mobile Sharing: "Bezos Beep" Vs. Smartphone Bump 180
Apple and Amazon Flirt With a Market For Used Digital Items 138
Rock Band Live's Second Act: Networks and Data Centers 52
Music Industry Sees First Revenue Increase Since 1999 393
Napster: the Day the Music Was Set Free 243
Ask Slashdot: How to Pimp My Android Tablet? 154
Amazon Patents 'Maintaining Scarcity' of Goods 240
Sony To Make Its Last MiniDisc System Next Month 263
As Music Streaming Grows, Royalties Slow To a Trickle 665
NZ Copyright Tribunal Fines First File-Sharer 102
Jonathan Coulton Offers Some Gleeful Turnabout 157
Data Analyst Spoils the World's Biggest Song Vote 165
Jonathan Coulton Song Used By Glee Without Permission 307
Survey Suggests P2P Users Buy More Music 186
How Apple Killed an iTunes Competitor 143
Amazon Sidesteps App Store Business Model, Plays Back MP3s From Safari 114
Amazon AutoRip — 14 Years Late 215
Making Earbuds That Fit (Video) 104
Drug Allows Deafened Mice to Regrow Inner Ear Hair 80
Catch Up Via Video With World of Commodore 2012 51