In 2006, a desktop music-player application named Songbird was being hailed as an "open source iTunes killer" by tech blogs, fired up by its promise to breach Apple's walled garden and help people buy their digital music from wherever they wanted. It's important to think about that early promise when reporting on the demise of Songbird last week, with CEO Eric Wittman delivering the news in a blog post. "Unfortunately, the company has found ourselves unable to fund further business operations...
June 17th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
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June 14th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
Pink Floyd are getting ready to smash the bricks in the wall* between the band and streaming music services, starting with Spotify. The band have made the 2011 remastered...
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June 14th, 2013 by Music Ally
We don't like to criticise other music industry sites. Partly because we're British and polite, and partly because, well, thin ice etc. Our confident prediction in 2007 that...
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June 4th, 2013 by Music Ally
The Music Ally podcast is back after a week off because, like a digital Lazarus (or a digital ET), Stu Dredge is "back from the dead" (trans: he gnawed one too many frozen...
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