Posts Tagged ‘music’

Amazon Extends AutoRip Service To Vinyl

AutoRip was first unveiled by Amazon back in January of this year, and is a service that provides MP3 versions of albums purchased on Amazon music, dating back as far as 1998 when the music store first came into existence. Amazon have recently announced they are now extending this service for those who purchased their [...]

iTunes Store Now Sold Over 25Billion Songs

Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 25 billion songs from the iTunes Store. The 25 billionth song, “Monkey Drums” (Goksel Vancin Remix) by Chase Buch, was purchased by Phillip Lüpke from Germany. As the downloader of the 25 billionth song, Phillip will receive a €10,000 iTunes® Gift Card. Eddy [...]

thumbsUp!‏ Introduce New Touch Speaker With Near Field Audio

I’m quite intrigues by how well this might work, a wireless speaker that requires no configuration or connectors, simply place your handset on it and music is routed through it? Sounds to good to be true, but that’s what gadget developer thumbsUp! have announced today with their new Touch Speaker.. The speaker uses wireless NearFA™ [...]

New Mobile Music Service Bloom.fm Launches

A new mobile music service has entered the fray, in an already cramped market filled with Deezer, Spotify, Last.fm and more is there room for the new Bloom.fm service? Bloom.fm offers mobile only (web based streaming is coming) music streaming to iOS and Android (Beta at time of writing) devices with tiered plans allowing increasing [...]

Deezer Launches Free Ad Supported Streaming Option

Deezer, the music streaming company, has today announced the launch of a free version of its service in the UK, supported by adverts. To reach a mass audience Deezer will offer users in the UK a discovery period of one year of unlimited ad-supported, free listening on PCs and laptops. New users can also grab [...]

Keeping up with your favourite bands becomes easy with launch of Qusic

A new service launched to day to help you keep up to date with new music releases from your favourite artists on Spotify. Qusic is designed to help you track all the artists from your Spotify, iTunes & mp3 libraries in one go and be notified by email when they release anything new on the [...]

Review: Deezer iOS Music Streaming App

At first glance Deezer appears to be nothing more than one of the many identikit Spotify clones popping up all over the place since the streaming music service exploded onto the scene a few years back, and in many respects it is, however, Deezer is a slightly different beastie to Spotify and the way in [...]