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Elvis, but not as you know 'im
News The distribution of digital music got easier on Tuesday when Emusic -- formerly GoodNoise -- signed a deal to distribute post punk songster Elvis Costello's back catalogue in MP3 format. Concerns over piracy mean that the traditional music industry...
[February 29, 2000, 14:43]
Apple goes retail with iPod
News Apple plans to start selling its iPod digital music player at Target retail stores. The move broadens Apple's distribution of its popular digital music player in time for this year's holiday shopping season.
[October 25, 2002, 9:01]
Music online: Big boys team up on delivery system
News BMG Entertainment and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.to back its digital music-delivery system in an aggressive push to become the de facto standard for delivering music over the Internet. The idea that people might want high-quality digital...
[May 6, 1999, 15:08]
US electronics giant backs MP3
News In a sign that the MP3 digital music format is heading for the home entertainment centre, consumer electronics giant Thomson Multimedia SA announced Wednesday a 20 percent equity stake in MP3 player and management software maker MusicMatch Inc.
[April 29, 1999, 9:10]
Making the music gamble
News By any measure, Napster chief executive Chris Gorog is one of the world's biggest believers in digital music. CNET News.com recently spoke with Gorog about his company's radical bet on digital music and his potentially conflicted relationship with...
[September 2, 2004, 15:10]
From chat to music: The evolution of IM
News Yahoo last week acquired digital music service Musicmatch for $160m in cash in a move that adds a multimedia player, a digital music store and a subscription service to the company's arsenal. Adding more digital music features illustrates IM's...
[September 22, 2004, 13:50]
Microsoft looks to extend digital media reach
News Microsoft, seeking to become a vital player in the budding world of digital media, detailed on Tuesday a host of software products intended to ensure its influence over music and video. Digital media such as MP3 music files or streams of video sent...
[April 18, 2002, 7:31]
Rio no longer home to pirates as world waits for June 30
News As the world awaits the June 30 decision of the Secure Digital Music Initiative, Diamond is making moves to pacify the record labels. This summer, the SDMI will make its recommendations for the delivery of digital music world-wide.
[April 27, 1999, 12:00]
Ashampoo Music Studio
Downloads The complete digital music solution: rip, edit, convert, record, repair and burn. This program has always been a favorite of digital music fans and the latest version now includes everything you need to create, edit, and manage your digital music...
[February 4, 2009, 17:44]
Possibly the biggest MP3 player in the world!
News A Korean electronics manufacturer is set to release the world's first 81-hour-capacity digital music player -- but would you really want one? The general feedback from consumers is that being able to carry an hour or two is a little bit limiting...
[November 4, 1999, 12:27]
Press your own CDs is music industry's next move
News According to BT account manager Sean Lowry, the company is considering its options in the network delivery of digital music to high street music outlets. Lowry was among delegates at the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) conference, looking at...
[April 27, 1999, 9:16]
Ministry of Sound commits to digital audio
News One of the largest independent record labels in Europe, the Ministry of Sound, is to provide direct digital downloads of music tracks. The Ministry of Sound, including the Web site, record label, and club state that it is "definitely" committed to...
[November 21, 1999, 9:18]
Comdex '99: Microsoft trumpets MP3 alternative
News Microsoft announced a host of deals and partnerships at Comdex Tuesday around its Windows Media Audio (WMA) digital music format. It is by no means certain whether the SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative), the music industry's digital music...
[November 17, 1999, 9:01]
SDMI releases secure music spec.
News The Secure Digital Music Initiative or SDMI -- a consortium of more than 110 companies from the music and computer industries -- released the initial version of its requirements for portable digital music players.
[July 14, 1999, 8:20]
MP3? WMA? We don't care says music industry
News Software companies may be fighting tooth and claw to establish a dominant format for digital music, but the message from the music industry is clear -- it just doesn't care. We've known since the first MP3 hit the Net that the music industry is set...
[January 27, 2000, 8:41]
SDMI will fail - EMusic
News The SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) was created by major players from the record industry to come up with a copyright-enabled alternative to MP3. Rob Wells, Internet manager at music label BMG denied the record industry wanted to destroy MP3.
[July 8, 1999, 15:51]
Napster and friends under fire
News Lehman helped author the laws that govern music, video and other digital media distribution when he ran the US Patent and Trademark Office in the mid-1990s. A further illustration of the law's power emerged recently, when a group of Princeton...
[January 29, 2001, 8:52]
Digital fingerprint aims to cut down piracy
News Digital song-tracking company Audible Magic is striking a deal with Universal Music Group for song information, getting another leg up in its quest to be able to identify -- and potentially block -- music as it is transferred online.
[August 12, 2003, 10:30]
Chemical Brothers love MP3 - Liquid Audio deal
News Liquid Audio , an advocate of the SDMI, produces its own downloadable digital music player that supports various formats including MP3, but claims to be "compliant with the goals of the Record Industry Association of America's Secure Digital Music...
[July 8, 1999, 13:46]
Is the heyday of the MP3 coming to a close?
News After years as the unrivalled king of the digital-media world, the venerable MP3 music format is losing ground to rival technologies from Microsoft and Apple. Many mainstream users, who are less tech-savvy than the early adopters of digital music...
[October 18, 2004, 11:00]
