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Online music body favours MP3
News According to UK trade mag Music Week, the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) is on the verge on accepting the MP3 format as an interim measure. MP3, a format that allows music to be easily compressed in digital form so that it can be uploaded...
[May 13, 1999, 15:47]
Legal way forward for online music
News In reference to the RIAA-Diamond feud, AudioSoft president Francois Xavier Nuttall said players like Rio are a good idea and one which consumers will want, but believes any development must be done with the consent of the music industry.
[October 29, 1998, 10:46]
AOL: Online music's next king?
News America Online may do with music players what it has done with instant messaging -- become a kingmaker, a new report from Jupiter Research suggests. America Online's 6.0 version, released at Internet World, certainly is a crazy quilt of software...
[December 6, 2000, 7:58]
Buy.com opens online music shop
News Much as iTunes helped drive sales of Apple's music players, Buy.com hopes to direct users of its service to its online stores. Buy.com on Tuesday launched a new digital music download service, hoping to reprise Apple's early success with its iTunes...
[July 22, 2003, 14:44]
Swapping doesn't hurt music sales - study
News Big record labels have seen their sales slide precipitously in the past few years, and have blamed the falling revenue in large part on rampant free music downloads online. A study of file-sharing's effects on music sales says online music trading...
[March 30, 2004, 10:45]
AOL's got major-label music to burn
News America Online, Warner Music Group's corporate cousin, last week began offering 99-cent (70 pence) downloads of music from artists such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alanis Morissette, Missy Elliott, Jewel and Brandy.
[June 19, 2002, 9:41]
Yahoo rethinks music downloads
News In addition, Yahoo also has begun kicking the tires of online music services as it rethinks its strategy, which hinges on streaming media, not downloads. Yahoo, rethinking earlier plans, is quietly exploring ways to develop a music-download service...
[February 9, 2004, 7:50]
Billboard counts down Web music
News Nielsen SoundScan will report only permanent digital-music downloads sold through online services, rather than songs played through streaming-music subscription offerings. Nielsen SoundScan's announcement that it will begin recording download sales...
[July 3, 2003, 10:02]
AOL, Liquid Audio enter digital music pact
News AOL's Nullsoft Winamp, producers of the Winamp audio player and the Shoutcast streaming audio system, and online music software and services company Liquid Audio have announced a strategic alliance to integrate and cross-promote their music...
[January 5, 2000, 13:59]
A Year Ago: MTV buys into Diamond's RioPort MP3 player
News MTV Networks Online, a division of Viacom has signed a deal with Diamond Multimedia Systems subsidiary RioPort to deliver digital music over the Internet. In return for promoting the downloads and delivering content, MTV will share in revenues from...
[July 20, 2000, 7:00]
Listen.com signs up big players
News Listen.com has signed music distribution deals with two major record labels, giving it a long-awaited power boost in the race to create the perfect online jukebox. Like many other online companies, Listen.com has been seeking distribution rights...
[January 8, 2002, 15:33]
Universal to buy EMusic for £17m
News It has also allowed online music company RioPort to sell Universal songs for downloads through Viacom's MTVi Group, which runs MTV.com and VH1.com. Recording giant Universal Music Group, a unit of Vivendi Universal, said Monday it will acquire...
[April 9, 2001, 16:04]
RealNetworks muscles into iPod
News Apple maintains a dominant market share in the music download business, and RealNetworks hopes that the new compatibility with the iPod will help drive customers to its online store. Analysts welcomed the move as a good step for consumers, who...
[July 26, 2004, 8:55]
Napster's subscription Holy Grail fading
News Record companies, online music companies and media goliaths alike are drooling at the idea of creating a network that offers the same access to music downloads -- and charging for it. Some online music companies have thought about such...
[February 13, 2001, 15:02]
iTunes Music Store DRM bypassed
News But with a Windows version of the software also available, it's likely to trigger a legal response from Apple, which has closely guarded access to its online music store and has depended on its copy-protection software to gain rights to sell music...
[March 21, 2005, 9:10]
What has broadband done for us?
News Ovum argues that software downloads, music downloads, video on demand, online learning, live concert broadcasts, online gaming, gambling, and adult entertainment could not have survived without broadband.
[March 31, 2004, 12:15]
Kazaa finds friends in file-swapping fight
News Another scenario floated by Sharman's Washington lobbyist involves the creation of an Intellectual Property User Fee (IPUF), which would be used to pay record companies and artists for online music downloads.
[May 16, 2002, 13:12]
Yahoo! sings Duet's tunes
News The Senate this week convened a hearing featuring testimonies by recording artists, record executives and online music executives to determine what extent the labels will let music grow on the Internet.
[April 5, 2001, 16:20]
Barnesandnoble.com hears the music
News Like other online music retailers, barnesandnoble.com's music will be heavily discounted, in some cases as much as 30% off the suggested retail price. Amazon.com jumped into online music sales one year ago and is considered the leading music...
[July 7, 1999, 15:33]
MTV buys into Diamond's RioPort MP3 player
News In return for promoting the downloads and delivering content, MTV will share in revenues from music sales and get a stake in RioPort. The deal calls for the two companies to distribute and sell digital music across MTV's properties, which include...
[July 20, 1999, 15:20]
