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How to store, listen to, and remove music from your Apple Watch
You can keep one playlist on your Apple Watch at a time…
Apple still plans WWDC debut for new ‘iTunes Music’ subscription service
An announcement at the June 8th WWDC keynote is still planned…
Apple lacks key music deals ahead of ‘iTunes Music’ subscription service launch, sources say
Apple does not have the necessary licensing deals a month before WWDC…
‘Cutthroat’ Apple attempts to kill free music streaming, wants to pay for music
Apple has hatched a killer plan against Spotify and YouTube…
Apple pushing music labels to kill free Spotify streaming ahead of ‘iTunes Music’ launch
Apple has been using its considerable power in the music industry to…
Music downloads, subscriptions overtake CD sales for the first time
Revenue from digital-music downloads and subscriptions edged out those from CDs…
Apple’s killer plan for Beats: A little human touch, a little human nature
Apple is currently paying music journalists to write copy for thousands of playlists…
Apple asks Taylor Swift, others to promote revamped Beats Music service
Exclusives will be bait for music lovers loathe to pay for subscriptions…
U.S. feds weigh investigation of Apple’s forthcoming ‘iTunes Music’ streaming service
Regulators in Washington have been holding talks with key music-industry executives…
Apple is late to the music streaming game; strategy looks increasingly risky
In what could be seen as a rare sign of Apple ignoring a product for too long…
Why Apple’s glacial response to disruptive streaming music market matters
Spotify and others have quickly created a streaming music market…
Apple’s ‘iTunes Music’ streaming service to cost $9.99/month, no free tier; iTunes Radio to get makeover
Apple recently tried but failed to persuade record labels to agree to lower licensing costs…
Apple’s iTunes Store aggressively bans soundalikes
The iTunes Store quietly responded last month to the flood of soundalikes…
With iTunes Music, Apple wants to help music labels roll back the tide of free digital music
Apple executives have been telling the music industry it can help them…
Apple Inc., the record label?
When Apple’s streaming music service comes out later this year…
Apple’s new music strategy
Music streaming represents one of the rare incidents of Apple losing control of one of its product’s life cycle…
Ars Technica reviews Pono Player: ‘A tall, refreshing drink of snake oil’
Neil Young and his Pono Player team are kinda full of crap…
Neil Young’s Pono Player: The emperor has no clothes
One of Kickstarter’s most successful campaigns…
What happens to songs that zero people listen to on Spotify?
Nearly 20 percent of the tracks on Spotify — some 4 million songs — have never been played…
Technology is destroying the music industry, which is great news for the next Taylor Swift
It wasn’t the internet that killed the music industry…
Google launches new YouTube music subscription service
Google is remixing the music on its YouTube video site with the addition of Music Key…
Bono drops more clues about U2’s secret project with Apple: ‘They let us into the labs’
U2 lead singer Bono provided some more tantalizing hints about collaborating with Apple…
Apple rebuilding Beats Music, plans to relaunch it as part of iTunes in 2015
Apple is rebuilding Beats Music and plans to relaunch it next year as part of iTunes…
Apple’s iTunes Store offers tons of rock albums on sale
If, like me, you’re a rock fan, or if you just like to listen to…
‘4: John Paul George Ringo’ EP available now for free from Apple’s iTunes Store
Interested iTunes users can download “4”, a free digital EP from John, Paul, George and Ringo…
Expect Apple to create the modern day equivalent of a record label led by Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre
Tim Cook brought Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre and Ian Rogers into the fold for a reason…
Apple and U2 working on non-piratable ‘interactive format for music,’ sources say
The forthcoming new product from Apple and U2 can be expected to…
Apple and U2 working on secret project to save the music industry
There’s more music on the way…
To understand why Apple bought Beats, you need to understand Lady Gaga
Headphone sales? Music streaming service? Wearables? Music label deals?
Why the anger over iTunes’ free U2 album ‘Songs Of Innocence?’
Being angry about an album you were given for free…
Apple iTunes users download 2 million copies of new U2 album; 17 other U2 albums in iTunes top 100 chart
iTunes users have downloaded more than 2 million copies…
Some iTunes users upset over Apple’s U2 album giveaway
Who is U2? And why do their songs keep popping up in my iPhone?
Apple and U2 release ‘Songs of Innocence’ exclusively for iTunes Store customers
From the very beginning U2 have always wanted our music to reach as many people as possible…
Apple may have purchased Beats just in time
Now that the Apple acquisition of Beats is complete…
Apple promos Beats Music app via email to iTunes customers
Apple has begun pushing the Beats Music streaming service via email…
Shazam releases Shazam for Mac menu bar app
The new experience gives Mac users uninterrupted access to explore…
Elegy for the iPod, the device that transformed Apple
I hold a small metal device in my hands and twirl my finger on a circular controller…
Apple announces 8th annual iTunes Festival in London with Maroon 5, Blondie, many more
Apple today announced that Maroon 5, Pharrell Williams, Beck, Sam Smith, Blondie…
Beats $3.2 billion sale to Apple proves it’s great, but not necessarily at headphones
In the weeks since Apple bought Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion…
How a Reddit user convinced Tim Cook to change Apple’s on-hold music
I once sent Tim an email about the quality of music while on hold with Apple…
Garth Brooks to again skip iTunes with first new album in 13 years
Brooks’ entire catalog will be available for downloading starting on Monday at his website…
