Music Stories for 2022

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