Latest Audio Articles

• 21 February 2012

• Opinion: Search iTunes radio stations using playlists

  If you use iTunes radio stations, you may have noticed that you can’t search in the Radio list; the search field is dimmed. But OS X Hints reader osxpounder pointed out that you can search if you put the radio stations in a playlist.

• Test Centre: Group test: what are the best headphones?

  PC Advisor reviews the best headphones you can buy in the UK today.

• 20 February 2012

• Test Centre: Group test: what's the best smartphone?

  PC Advisor selects the best 5 smartphones available in the UK right now, using our hundreds of mobile phone reviews to choose the best blend of price and performance.

• 17 February 2012

• New Products: Magicbox Atom mini DAB radio

  DAB radios aren't usually cheap, but the Magicbox Atom has both small dimensions and comes with a small price tag. It costs £30 and is able to save both FM and DAB presets

• 14 February 2012

• News: Spotify for iPhone offers 320Kbps streaming

  Spotify is offering iPhone and iPad owners that use its mobile app the chance to stream tracks at 320Kbps.

• 10 February 2012

• Opinion: Ask the iTunes Guy: iTunes Match confusion

  [Ask the iTunes Guy is a regular column in which we answer your questions on everything iTunes related. If there’s something you’d like to know, send an email to the iTunes Guy for consideration.]

• 09 February 2012

• News: iTunes Match is 'magic money', says music industry exec

  A music industry executive has said that Apple is creating 'magic money' for rightsholders with its iTunes Match service.

• How-Tos: How to enjoy better-quality digital music

  Uncompressed or lossless audio offers much higher quality than regular MP3. We show you how to enjoy a better listening experience.

• News: Remains of the Day: Apropos of something

  The first iTunes Match royalties have arrived, and they're music to artists' ears. Elsewhere, one pilot's lawsuit against his airline may not have enough lift for takeoff, and an iOS-based social network apologizes for getting just a bit too social. The remainders for Wednesday, February 8, 2012 are on the nose.

• 03 February 2012

• News: Apple iTunes Match Glitch Replaces Explicit Lyric Songs With Censored Versions

  Explicit lyrics might not bother you, but at the moment, they're a problem for Apple's iTunes Match service.

• New Products: iLuv iMM 155 Vibro II shakes to the beat

  iLuv has launched a compact iPod and iPhone audio dock that offers an unusual take on rousing its owner from sleep. The iMM 155 Vibro II has a separate vibrating module that is placed under a pillow or on a surface near to the sleeper and that shakes into action at the preset alarm time

• 02 February 2012

• News: Remains of the Day: Shoot the moon

  Tim Cook shoots off an email, Donald Trump shoots off his mouth, and the new iPod nano may shoot (not great) pictures. The remainders for Wednesday, February 1, 2011 are taking a shot in the dark.

• 01 February 2012

• News: Is the Use of Sites Like MegaUpload Sinking the Arts Ship? Not So Fast, Says New Advocate Study

  From the dramatic MegaUpload takedown to draconian legislation like SOPA, it is easy to assume that commercial art profits (such as from album sales) are a sinking ship.

• Opinion: Hey Hey, My My: MP3, It's Time to Die

  OK, so Neil Young didn't utter those exact words at The Wall Street Journal's D: Dive Into Media conference Tuesday, but he might as well have.

• 31 January 2012

• News: Rocker Young: Steve Jobs and I discussed higher-quality digital downloads

  Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Neil Young says that he talked to former Apple CEO Steve Jobs about offering higher-quality digital music downloads, but that since Jobs’s death, discussion with Apple on the matter has ceased.

• 30 January 2012

• How-Tos: Retrieve Your Entire Music Library from Your Google Music Account

  For a while now I've been using Google Music as a kind of cloud-based backup for my music library. Except that it wasn't really a backup, because I couldn't easily retrieve all the songs I'd uploaded. In the event of a system failure, I'd have to download tunes in batches of 100. Bleh.

• New Products: Kidz Gear sound-limiting headphones debut

  Kidz Gear has unveiled a pair of sound-limiting headphones that are especially designed for use by youngsters. The Wired headphones for Kids have a line-in connector and a volume adjustment rocker on the cable.

• 27 January 2012

• News: Expo Notes: Creators panel highlights use of Macs, iOS in music, movies

  It's not every panel discussion that breaks in the middle for an improv freestyle rap with two human beatboxes. Then again, it's not every improv rapper who responds to the topic of "Mac" by saying, "that's so easy."

• 26 January 2012

• News: Pure Music made available in the UK

  Pure Music, the web-based music streaming service from digital radio firm Pure, has finally been made available in the UK.

• News: Rhapsody acquires Napster operations in UK, Germany

  Rhapsody has acquired the Napster service in the U.K. and Germany, following up on its acquisition last year of Napster's U.S. operations from Best Buy.

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