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Bing and Melodeo Team up for Free Mobile Music

There’s a new iPhone app out now called the “Top 100s by Year – by Bing” which lets you listen to the top 100 songs from every year starting at 1947 and going up until last year, 2009. The app, a partnership between Bing and digital music provider Melodeo, features a list of years to [...]

Can’t Buy Me Love – Why Getting Digg Hosts to Pimp the Zune Fell Flat

The Microsoft Zune is definitely the underdog when it comes to MP3 music players. In this market, there is only one king and everyone knows it’s the iPod. It’s hard for anyone offering an alternative MP3 player to get ahead, even when they have the marketing budget of a company like Microsoft.  And the Zune [...]

TinySong Helps You Tweet Music

From Grooveshark there now comes a handy new tool called TinySong that lets you share music with your friends. To use TinySong, you enter in an artist’s name or the name of the song and do a search. From the Grooveshark database, a list of results will appear. When you see the one you want, [...]

Wiiizzz, a Twitter Jukebox

Wiiizzz offers a way to discover what people on Twitter have been listening to and sharing on Twitter by aggregating tracks and posting them in a random order on the Wiiizzz homepage. Right now though, only the band names display. You can click the play button next to the band name to listen to the [...]

NIN Giving Away More Free Music

According to TorrentFreak, Nine Inch Nails (the only band that seems to get music 2.0) is offering a new single "Echoplex" for free on Facebook. I added myself as a fan of them on Facebook, but somehow missed the single – was there a trick to that? However, the single is also available for download [...]

ISPs, Throttling, Torrenting, and Pirates

Tell me we’re not heading down a dangerous road: an article in today’s Guardian reports on how ISPs worldwide have turned into the police of the web, throttling, shifting, and killing packets left and right. In the U.S., Comcast has been in the news for their throttling of heavy BitTorrent users, but they are by [...]

Fixing Up My Tunes

Oh, I needed this! I’ve got MP3s and MP4s and WMAs and god knows what else filling up gigs of storage at my house, thanks to a little sneakernet-ing not to mention ripping nearly my entire CD collection to my PC. And even though both Windows Media Player, iTunes, and my copy of Media Monkey [...]

For Kids, Illegal Copying is the Norm

The Guardian, which always offers an interesting perspective on UK web trends, posted an article today that caught my eye: "Home copying – burnt into teenage psyche." According to a new study by the industry group British Music Rights, 95% of 18-24 year-olds have engaged in "home copying," which includes things like copying files from [...]

Nine Inch Nails Album Available for Download Now…for Free

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails promised that he would launch his next album, Ghosts I-IV, without a label. It appears he has been true to his word. The new album, which features 36 songs in total, can be purchased online in a variety of ways. Unlike Radiohead’s "In Rainbows" album, this new NIN album [...]

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DoubleTwist Sets Your Music Free

A man who goes by the name of "DVD Jon," gained fame for cracking both the DVD code and Apple’s FairPlay. Now he’s offering a new software application, called DoubleTwist, that allows for sharing of any music, photo, or video file on any portable media player as well across social networks. The CEO of DoubleTwist, [...]

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