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Let the Music Play We review all the tools you need to satisfy your digital music urges. |
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PC World
October 2005
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How to Beat the Music Download Blues Incompatible formats and players can make getting music online a headache. Here's some advice to help you pick up your favorite tunes online without hassles. |
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November 29, 2006
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Buying Guide: Online Music Services Two thousand six may well be remembered as the year music subscription services went platinum. |
BusinessWeek
December 19, 2005
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Apple May Be Holding Back The Music Biz Critics say iTunes-only downloads and inflexible pricing are hurting song sales. |
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October 17, 2007
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Apple Drops the Digital-Music Shackles Apple lowers the price of its unrestricted song files. If a customer can buy a DRM-protected track on iTunes at $0.99 a pop, or pick up a DRM-free version at a sonically superior bitrate, it's an easy choice. |
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August 21, 2008
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Apple's Unlimited Appeal Apple's iTunes may be ready to roll out a subscription model. |
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February 11, 2005
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Napster Nips at iTunes' Heels The music download service plans to battle Apple with an unlimited-tune subscription deal. |
InternetNews
January 11, 2008
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Sony BMG Opens DRM-Free Content to Amazon Sony BMG's move gives Amazon a new boost in its quest to upend iTunes, but where do the record labels' priorities' really lie? |
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November 12, 2004
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Microsoft Biting the Apple The company is taking ever-closer steps to getting in Apple's musical domain. |
PC World
June 2004 |
Wal-Mart Does MP3s Wal-Mart's music downloads are cheaper than those from ITunes. |
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December 27, 2007
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Warner Warms to Amazon Warner Music Group becomes the latest big studio to sell DRM-free tunes through Amazon.com. |
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March 30, 2007
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Apple's Five-Finger Discount Albums are getting cheaper on iTunes if you bought a single. |
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March 24, 2004
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Wal-Mart Gets in the Groove Online music downloads should help boost Wal-Mart's overall Web sales. |
The Motley Fool
March 19, 2008
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You Can't Stop the Music, Apple Apple is in talks with record labels to offer an unlimited iTunes music-streaming service. |
The Motley Fool
August 22, 2007
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Before You Bite Into That Apple ... Investors, no one is building a better mousetrap than Apple, but a DRM-free world will be loaded with cheaper knock-off mousetraps. With the world's largest retailer and the country's most popular e-tailer nibbling on the cheese, something's going to snap. |
PC World
January 2004
Eric Dahl |
Big-Time Music Services Arrive New stores from Apple, Musicmatch, and Napster offer legal, affordable tunes. |
The Motley Fool
September 26, 2007
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Amazon 2, Apple 0 Amazon's new MP3 store aims for Apple's jugular. Anyone who believes that Apple will maintain its gargantuan share of the digital-music world in a year or two has been resting on the mute button for too long. |
PC Magazine
February 25, 2009
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Amazon MP3 (Winter 2009) Amazon's online music sells unrestricted music that's high quality, compatible with almost any player, and often cheaper than what it would cost on iTunes... iLike... Lala... |
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September 5, 2007
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The iTunes Store... With Subscriptions? Buzzword As Steve Jobs unveiled the new Apple iPod Touch and iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, we wonder what it would take for a DRM-free, flat-rate music store to go from record-label nightmare to user-friendly dream come true? |
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May 19, 2009
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Will Best Buy Kill Apple, Microsoft, and Sirius XM? Napster's pricing plan is going to turn heads. And they might roll. |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
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Which Format Will Win? A pitched battle for control of the music-downloading business is raging among Apple, Microsoft, RealNetworks, and Sony. Their weapons: software used to buy and listen to music downloads on computers and portable devices. |
InternetNews
December 3, 2007 |
Pressure Mounts on Record Labels to Offer MP3s New promotions, successful tests and retailer demands could spell the end of DRM-protected music. |
InternetNews
January 28, 2008
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Amazon Taking Its MP3 Store Global Beginning later this year, Amazon plans to roll out international versions of its DRM-free music store. |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2008
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Apple Won't Unplug iTunes Unchanged royalty rates keep the virtual doors of Apple's music store open. |
PC Magazine
October 29, 2003 |
Online Music Stores: Music to Your Ears? As Apple iTunes Music Store for the Mac showed, users wanted to download as much or as little as they liked and pay only for what they bought. Now that the winning formula has been hit upon, it's rapidly being improved. |
BusinessWeek
June 7, 2004
Burrows & Lowry |
Rock On, iPod What CEO Steven Jobs must do to maintain Apple's dominance. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
How Do You Like Those Apples, Sam? When it comes to music, Apple has now done the unthinkable: It has passed Wal-Mart. |
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November 3, 2006
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MSN Music Going Silent For Zune Microsoft to point users to the digital music player's Zune Marketplace as well as Rhapsody sites. |
The Motley Fool
April 2, 2007
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Apple Strikes a Chord Apple and EMI are hooking up to promote unlocked digital downloads. Is EMI an unlikely first mover among its major-label brethren? Investors, take note. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Which Online Music Service Will Have the Longest Playing Time? Since May 2003, when Apple's online music service, iTunes, opened its digital doors, the drums announcing other online music services -- new enterprises as well as existing music services spruced up and recharged -- have been steadily beating. Which ones will have longevity? |
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June 30, 2008
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Ganging Up on iTunes RealNetworks and Verizon are out to steal market share from Apple's iTunes Music Store. |
Inc.
March 1, 2010
Adam Bluestein |
Coping With Fury at a Price Hike When eMusic raised prices, customers grumbled and threatened to leave. Was it too late to go back? |
The Motley Fool
January 9, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Music Lovers Go Legit Legal music downloading hits a new high over the 2005 holidays. It goes without saying that Apple's iTunes is the elephant in this particular room. |
PC Magazine
September 28, 2005
John C. Dvorak |
The New Music Download Battle The RIAA is not happy with the cost of songs in iTunes and wants a variable-priced solution. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Apple's iTunes Rocks Japan The iTunes Music Store sets another new record. Impressive though that is, Apple's stock remains expensive. |
InternetNews
April 27, 2005
Michael Singer |
Real Throws Weight Into Music Competition RealNetworks hopes its new Rhapsody services will put the company alongside the likes of Napster and iTunes. |
BusinessWeek
November 15, 2004
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
The Music Mess: Advantage, Microsoft Microsoft focuses on compatibility, which is what music lovers want. |
The Motley Fool
January 15, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Watch Your Back, Mr. Mac PepsiCo will be giving away 1 billion MP3 downloads through Amazon.com. |
BusinessWeek
June 7, 2004 |
Private Investors Hear Music's Call Private-equity firms have started to snap up music assets with the intention of changing the economics of the recording business. |
The Motley Fool
October 5, 2005
Steven Mallas |
Microsoft Scraps Music Plans High royalty demands from labels sink Microsoft's interest in a music subscription service. Let's hope the music companies and the online companies can work this out. Even if it doesn't propel the stock into the stratosphere, Microsoft and music subscription services would be a good fit. |
PC World
July 2003
Michael Gowan |
Apple's ITunes Music Store Is a Winner Windows users will have to wait for a compatible version, however. |
PC Magazine
November 29, 2006
Rick Broida |
Expert View: Apple: Get With The Program There's no wasted space on my mp3 player. |
BusinessWeek
October 13, 2003
Peter Burrows |
Tuning Up for the Online Music Business Making a buck selling songs online will be tough, but a raft of sites are at the ready. |
The Motley Fool
June 24, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Apple Rocks Europe The iTunes music store serves notice with 800,000 downloads in its first week in Europe. |
InternetNews
July 2, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Universal, Apple Set To Play Chicken The Universal Music Group, the largest of the four major record labels and a subsidiary of Vivendi SA, is reportedly trying to change the terms of its contract with Apple for selling digital music through the iTunes store. |
The Motley Fool
March 26, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple's 30% Mistake Record labels say some iTunes tracks will cost $1.29 next month. |
The Motley Fool
June 18, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon Catches a Coldplay Marking down Coldplay is Amazon's trap for digital-music lovers. |
InternetNews
September 5, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
MySpace Helps Musicians Sell Out Now all those MySpace musicians can find out if anyone is actually willing to pay to listen. |
