Music Stories for 2021

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