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How to build the ultimate media server for your music, movies, and more
If you’re like me, you’ve got hundreds of gigabytes of digital media files, everything from movies, to music, to TV shows…
‘Hey Siri, why don’t you have an offline mode?’
The success of semi-smart voice assistants opens the gates to new convenience and new frustration…
Apple’s AirPods show just how badly Siri needs an offline mode
With the AirPods, the main and only means of audio playback control is by double-tapping…
The essential AirPod user guide for iPhones, Macs – and Android
Available now after a few weeks delay, Apple’s AirPods are wireless earbuds that can do so much more than any other wireless headphone system…
Marathoner tests Apple AirPods on 10K run
Apple AirPods wireless headphones are now being delivered to customers and the usual bevy of real-world tests…
Sonos speakers now available via Apple Inc. websites worldwide
Following their addition to Apple.com in the United States last month…
Piko-Taro’s ‘Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen’ cracks Billboard’s top 100 singles
Comedian Piko-Taro’s music video ‘Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen,’ abbreviated as ‘PPAP,’ has entered the weekly U.S. Billboard Top 100 singles chart…
How to download all Apple Music on iPhone or iPad locally using iTunes
Downloading your complete Apple Music collection to your iPhone or iPad is surprisingly difficult…
Apple is finally making iTunes better for classical music
Classical music fans have long complained about iTunes, and the way it organizes music…
Apple releases iTunes 12.4.3
Apple today released iTunes 12.4.3 which resolves an issue where…
Verizon to acquire beleaguered Yahoo for $4.8 billion
The one thing that kept Yahoo afloat for this long is Jerry Yang’s risky $1 billion bet on Alibaba in 2005…
Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon: Apple Music is ‘literally a horrid platform’
Last year, when Apple launched its streaming service Apple Music, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon…
Happy first birthday, Apple Music!
As Apple Music marks its first anniversary, it does so with no free tier, a host of big-name exclusives and…
Apple Music turns one year old, already has half as many paying members as Spotify
Streaming service Spotify leads the on-demand music business today, but it is increasingly facing challenges…
Apple Music accumulating subscribers much more quickly than Spotify or Pandora
When Spotify and Pandora were starting their streaming services many were quick to point out…
How to listen to music on your Apple Watch without your iPhone and more
You can use your Apple Watch to listen to music on your iPhone, or you can sync a playlist to enjoy music on your Apple Watch without your iPhone…
Verizon to bid $3 billion for Yahoo’s internet business
Verizon Communications Inc. on Monday planned to submit a second-round bid of about $3 billion for Yahoo Inc.’s core internet business…
Radiohead blackball Spotify as new album hits Apple Music
Thom Yorke just got his own back on Spotify. The Radiohead star has famously had some strong words to say about the Swedish streaming service…
Here’s why Apple and others still don’t offer streaming TV services
The landscape of the TV market continues to buckle and heave as old players scramble to hold on and new entrants jockey for position…
Dalrymple: Lessons I hope Apple’s learned from last year’s Apple Music introduction
Apple is planning a major revamp of Apple Music at its Worldwide Developer Conference in June. This is welcome news for sure…
Will Apple stock benefit from sweeping changes to Apple Music?
pple plans to update Apple Music after the music streaming service received mixed reviews…
Trent Reznor is the perfect person to overhaul Apple Music
Trent Reznor, of Nine Inch Nails fame, will help ‘oversee’ a completely overhauled version of Apple Music…
Apple Music’s iOS 10 revamp to offer simpler UI, ‘huge artwork,’ and more
Nearly a year after Apple Music’s debut, Apple is preparing to announce its streaming music service’s first end-to-end overhaul…
Google’s YouTube said to plan ‘Unplugged’ Internet TV service for 2017
YouTube is working on a paid subscription service called Unplugged that would offer customers a bundle of cable TV channels streamed over the Internet…
Apple preps sweeping changes to Apple Music
Apple Inc. is planning sweeping changes to its year-old music streaming service after the first iteration of the product…
Hulu could beat Apple to market with cable-style Internet TV service
Hulu is developing a subscription service that would stream feeds of popular broadcast and cable TV channels…
Prince’s albums and songs utterly dominate Apple’s iTunes Store charts
Earlier today, the artist known as Prince died at the age of 57…
Prince dead at 57
The artist known as Prince has died at the age of 57…
After Apple Music release, Kanye West sued over Tidal exclusivity promise
The rapper and the streaming platform falsely promised that West’s most recent album…
Yahoo for sale as bidders line up; CEO Marissa Mayer is likely toast
Yahoo is for sale, and bidders are lining up to grab their own, ever-shrinking piece of Internet history…
Kanye West’s album that he said would ‘never never never be on Apple’ is now on Apple Music
Kanye West’s latest album, ‘”The Life of Pablo,”‘ was released to Apple Music…
Kanye West’s botched album release has cost him $10 million in sales
Kanye West’s troubled release of his latest album, ‘The Life of Pablo,’ has already cost the hip-hop star at least $10 million in sales…
CEO Marissa Mayer drops the ax, shutters about half of Yahoo’s content verticals
Yahoo was shuttering its tech vertical and moving some of its staff, including former New York Times columnist David Pogue…
Kanye West says he’s $53 million in debt and his new album will never ever be on Apple Music or iTunes, only Tidal (whatever that is)
It’s been a busy few days for self-proclaimed genius West, who announced he is $53 million in debt, and proclaimed himself this generation’s Walt Disney…
With new Music Memos app, Apple just made it easy for anyone with an iPhone to sound like a rockstar
Music Memos aims to simplify the music-making process on the iPhone…
Apple releases new music apps that transform iOS devices into handheld studios for songwriters and beatmakers
Apple today announced a new addition and a major update to its family of music-making apps for iOS…
ESPN President: We are in ongoing conversations with Apple
We’ve had discussions with Apple. I believe in 2016 there will be further announcements…
David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ sales soar as musical and financial legacy endures
Sales of David Bowie’s last album – released two days before his death from cancer – soared…
Yet another example of how Apple Music is messed up
I don’t use Apple Music for my main music library, but do use it on a test library on my MacBook…
The Apple TV conundrum
Before the Apple TV was launched in September, some expected that Apple would be announcing a new subscription TV plan…
Apple, TV networks clash over size and makeup of Internet TV bundle
If Apple gets its way, TV will undergo a significant change, just like the music business did…