Music Stories for 2016

Google and Facebook Dominate The List of 2016's Top Ten Apps 37
Apple Patent Hints At Magnetic Ear Hooks To Keep Future AirPods In Your Ears 73
Facebook Developing Copyright ID System To Stem Music Rights Infringement 42
Music Streaming Hailed as Industry's Saviour as Labels Enjoy Profit Surge 87
Amazon's Digital Day is Like Cyber Monday But For Downloads 20
Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls AirPods 'a Runaway Success' 214
Top Spotify Lawyer: Attracting Pirates is in Our DNA 79
Dutch Market Regulator Bans T-Mobile's 'Free' Streaming Music Service 61
Apple Will Charge You $69 To Replace a Lost AirPod 253
Microsoft Xbox One and Windows 10 Getting Dolby Atmos Surround Sound 37
EFF: The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able To Cut Off Your Internet Access 88
Bose Launches 'Hearphones' That Act Like Hearing Aids 65
AirPods Delay Attributed To Apple Ensuring Both Earpieces Receive Audio At Same Time 189
Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software 221
YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry 220
Vinyl Records Outsold Digital Downloads In the UK Last Week 188
YouTube Pays Music Industry $1 Billion From Ads 76
Security Researchers Can Turn Headphones Into Microphones 122
Music Torrent Site What.CD Has Been Shut Down 86
Shazam Keeps Your Mac's Microphone Always On, Even When You Turn It Off 126
US Finalizes Rules That Require Quiet Hyrbid and Electric Cars To Make Noise At Low Speeds 361
Red Hat Announces Fedora Will Support MP3 Playback 140
Spotify Is Writing Massive Amounts of Junk Data To Storage Drives 196
Apple Delays AirPods Beyond Original 'Late October' Window 77
Razer Acquires THX, the Audio Pioneer That George Lucas Started 44
More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones 552
EFF Co-Founder Announces Benefit Concert to Pay His Medical Bills 195
Amazon Launches New 'Music Unlimited' Service, Starts At $4/Month For Use On Just One Echo 25
Google Hires Joke Writers From Pixar and The Onion To Make Assistant More Personable 38
A Spotify Ad Slipped Malware Onto PCs and Macs 96
Google Gets Serious About Home Automation: Unveils Google Home, Actions on Google and Google Wifi 91
Researchers Restore the First Recording of Computer-Generated Music 127
Samsung's Next Flagship Smartphone May Not Feature a Headphone Jack 446
USB-IF Publishes Audio Over USB Type-C Specifications 135
New iPhone 7 Case Brings Back the Headphone Jack 377
Spotify in Talks To Acquire SoundCloud 20
YouTube-MP3 Ripping Site Sued By IFPI, RIAA and BPI 310
People Are Drilling Holes Into Their iPhone 7 To 'Make a Headphone Jack' 201
Apple Is Getting Ready To Take On Google and Amazon In a Battle For The Living Room 114
Stop Piracy? Legal Alternatives Beat Legal Threats, Research Shows 134
It Took a Couple Decades, But the Music Business Looks Like It's Okay Again 125
Google Chrome Beta For Android Now Lets You Play YouTube In the Background 51
Pandora Has Announced Its $5 Subscription Service 64
Amazon Adds Audiobooks and Podcasts To Prime Membership 60
Google's DeepMind Develops New Speech Synthesis AI Algorithm Called WaveNet 46
Apple Cites 'Courage' As Reason To Remove 3.5mm Headphone Jack 761
Apple To Unveil 'AirPods' That Use Custom Bluetooth Chip 274
An Asteroid Has Been Named After Freddie Mercury 58
What Jonathan Coulton Learned From The Technology Industry 88
Spotify Is Burying Tracks From Musicians Who Give Exclusives To Apple and Tidal 87
Steve Wozniak Says Apple Must Fix iPhone 7 Bluetooth Or Revive Its Headphone Jack 385
Cox Denies Liability for Pirating Subscribers, Appeals $25 Million Verdict 97
Samsung Reminds Us That You Can't Make People Use an App They Don't Want 70
TorrentFreak Interviews The Pirate Bay Staff, As the Torrent Website Celebrates 13th Anniversary 36
Cory Doctorow On What iPhone's Missing Headphone Jack Means For Music Industry 394
Spotify Is Now Selling Your Information To Advertisers 107
Apple Begins Rolling Out iTunes Match With Audio Fingerprint to Apple Music Subscribers 61
YouTube Says Content Owners Made $1B Last Year -- So Music Labels Should Stop Complaining 153
Google Offers Free 4-Month Play Music Trial Subscription For July 4th 45
That Digital Music Service You Love Is a Terrible Business 240
Apple Slams Spotify For Asking For 'Preferential Treatment' 181
Apple In Talks To Buy Jay Z-Owned Tidal Streaming Service 61
Spotify Says Apple Won't Approve New Version Of Its App Because It Doesn't Want Competition For Apple Music 327
Apple Patents a Way To Keep People From Filming At Concerts and Movie Theaters 266
Google Partners With LyricFind To Display Songs Lyrics In Search Results 35
From File-Sharing To Prison: The Story of a Jailed Megaupload Programmer 126
BitTorrent Adds Music, Video Streaming Options With Re-Launched BitTorrent Now 29
Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid 595
180 Artists, Labels Including Taylor Swift Take On YouTube, Join Copyright Plea 288
Alicia Keys Latest Artist To Enforce No Cell Phone Policy at Concerts 482
Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Music Streaming Service? 316
Court Slams Record Companies in New Vimeo/DMCA Ruling 23
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Must Pay Record Labels $395,000 148
Trent Reznor: YouTube Is Built On the Back Of Stolen Content 428
Twitter Invests $70 Million In Music Streaming Service SoundCloud 12
Rhapsody Rebrands Itself As Napster 42
Hacker Puts 51 Million iMesh Accounts For Sale On Dark Web 21
Amazon To Launch Streaming Music Service In Late Summer Or Early Fall: Report 22
Pandora CEO: No Plans To Sell Company: On Path To Do Something Big 32
Google's 'Project Magenta' Art Machine Composes Its First Song 72
Slashdot Asks: Should It Be Legal To Resell E-Books, Software, and Other Digital Goods? 380
American Schools Teaching Kids To Code All Wrong 369
Spotify's New Family Plan Is Cheaper, $14.99 For Up To 6 people 67
Fake Facebook Event Draws Police, Spawns New Meme 92
YouTube Is Guilty Of Criminal Racketeering, Grammy Winner Says 246
Campaign Demands Telecoms Unlock the FM Radio Found in Many Smartphones 340
EFF Confronts World Copyright Committee 32
Apple Says It Doesn't Know Why iTunes Users Are Losing Their Music Files 214
Samsung Unveils 256GB MicroSD Card, Highest Capacity In Its Class 117
Streaming Surpasses CD Sales At Warner Music 63
'Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously' 341
Slashdot Asks: What Do You Think Is The Most Influential Gadget Of All Time? 397
Audiophile Torrent Site What.CD Fully Pwnable Thanks To Wrecked RNG 138
iTunes Turns 13 Today -- Continues To Be 'Awful' 267
Spotify Denies User Details Hacked After Passwords Show Up Online 39
Hearing Aid Business Under Pressure From Consumer Electronics 209
RIP Prince, A Legendary Musician With A Complicated Internet History 196
Music Industry Sees First Big Gains in 20 Years Thanks to Streaming Services 134
Snowden Predicts Global iPhone Hack, Records Song 71
'Record Store Day' Creates Vinyl Logjam 120
Google Play Music To Add Podcast Support on April 18, Says Report 31
Music Streaming Service Exclusives Make Pirating Tempting Again 207
The Next Hot Job in Silicon Valley Is For Poets 58
The Music Industry Is Begging the US Government To Change Its Copyright Laws 209
Music Streaming Sales Outstrip Digital Downloads For First Time 74
Ask Slashdot: Linux and the Home Recording Studio? 264
Kanye West Is Reportedly Considering Legal Action Against the Pirate Bay 311
iTunes Radio Is Now "Apple Music" (and You Need a Subscription) 105
Universal To License Music To SoundCloud In Streaming Deal 49
David Bowie Dies At Age 69 296
Ask Slashdot: Cheap and Fun Audio Hacks? 135