Articles about Digital Music

Report: Amazon expanding into live audio

Amazon Music is leading an effort to expand the company into live audio, joining the likes of Clubhouse, Twitter, Facebook… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Talk coronavirus with local experts; live music online; meet a unicorn CEO

— The novel coronavirus pandemic has upended the way the entire world is working and living right now. Politicians, doctors,… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: AI and faith, a LEGO convention, advice for hardware startups, and more

– Advances in artificial intelligence raise new questions about the future of humanity. But what will AI mean for faith?… Read More

Napster parent Rhapsody cuts jobs, CEO departs amid debt challenges and strategic review

Rhapsody, the Seattle-based company that operates the Napster subscription music service, is cutting an undisclosed number of jobs, part of an… Read More

Rhapsody/Napster posts surprise $1.6M quarterly profit after years of losses, filing reveals

Seattle-based Rhapsody International, which operates the Napster music service, posted a profit of more than $1.6 million in the third quarter… Read More

Rhapsody will rebrand as Napster, creating ‘one global brand’ for longtime music service

Rhapsody, the granddaddy of music streaming services, will dump its longtime name in the U.S. in favor of the Napster… Read More

Seattle music technology firm MediaNet acquired by Canadian performing rights organization

Seattle-based MediaNet, a pioneer business-to-business music technology provider, has been acquired by SOCAN, a premiere performing-rights organization in Canada. The… Read More

iTunes rival: AmazonMP3 growing with 22% of online music downloads

iTunes has been the king of digital music downloads for the past ten years, but the latest numbers show Amazon… Read More

Sorry, Amazon: Court frowns on resale of ‘used’ digital music

A federal judge’s ruling in favor of Capitol Records in a suit against the ReDigi digital music service could have… Read More

Rhapsody revenue hits new peak of $143M, losses narrow

Rhapsody, the digital music subscription service based in downtown Seattle, saw its revenue rise nearly 13 percent in 2012, to… Read More

Seattle’s Best CD/Record Store is … Starbucks?

Seattle Weekly is out with its annual “Best of Seattle” awards, and in a city that takes pride in its… Read More

Audiogalaxy music service is reborn, with a new approach

Audiogalaxy, one of the original music file-sharing services and “one of the greatest defunct websites of all time,” marked its return… Read More

Rhapsody marks decade in business as it absorbs Napster

Ten years ago this weekend, on Dec. 3, 2001, the Rhapsody music service was launched by Listen.com, pioneering the concept… Read More

Rhapsody gets more social, tunes into Facebook friends

Rhapsody is rolling out a new slate of social features today, including the ability for users to create profile pages,… Read More

Practical Nerd: When content is KING-FM

Is there a place for an old linear medium in a bright shiny digital media world? That is the question… Read More

Amazon starts MP3 price war with 69 cent popular tracks

Used to be that Amazon.com’s 69-cent MP3 section was the digital equivalent of the bargain bin at the record store,… Read More

RealNetworks plans new ‘Rinse’ clean-up tool for iTunes

RealNetworks has developed a new program called Rinse for cleaning up and organizing Apple iTunes libraries on Windows PCs and… Read More

Spotify trims free music in Europe: A preview for U.S.?

The popular Spotify music service is making headlines in Europe this morning with new limits on its signature offering —… Read More

Amazon tells music labels it doesn’t need their permission for Cloud Drive, yet

Billboard magazine has gotten its hands on a letter from Amazon.com to the major music labels that illustrates the philosophical… Read More

Q&A: Rhapsody rebounding after RealNetworks spinoff

Rhapsody International, on its own now for a full year, has added more than 100,000 new subscribers over the past… Read More