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  • 03 April 2013

  • News: Rethinking the iTunes Store

    Mark your calendars because the iTunes Store has an anniversary coming up. Apple started selling music downloads on April 28, 2003--a business decision that seems to have worked out pretty well for the company considering that Apple has since sold more than 25 billion songs.

  • 02 April 2013

  • News: MP3 resale ban could close doors for Apple and Amazon's second-hand media plans

    A federal court's ruling against MP3 resale service ReDigi could be bad news for Apple and Amazon, who've both considered setting up their own stores for second-hand digital content.

  • News: Find free, cool music on SoundCloud

    The Internet has no shortage of places offering streaming music these days. Pandora, Spotify, Songza, Rdio--the list goes on and on. But few digital music destinations offer the unique selections you can find on SoundCloud.

  • Opinion: Remains of the Day: Fool on the hill

    Yes, yes, it's April Fool's Day. But here at the Remains of the Day, it's business as usual. So you can read about non-resellable MP3s, rumors about the next two iPhones, and Tim Cook's handsome, handsome yearbook photos without any fear that we're out to fool you. That's because the remainders for Monday, April 1, 2013, respect everything about you.

  • News: Judge rules ReDigi music resale service infringes copyright

    Selling a pre-owned digital music file is quite different from selling an old CD in the physical world, and may infringe copyright, a court in New York has ruled.

  • News: Speakerfy sees mini-concerts, more social music sharing with new app

    Imagine you're working out with friends at the gym and you all want to listen to a song, but only one person has it downloaded. Not a problem: Beaming the song from one smartphone to any number of other devices is a little easier now with a new app.

  • 31 March 2013

  • Test Centre: Soundbars: buying advice

    Sick of putting up with sound that’s as thin as your TV? We review six soundbars that offer better quality with minimum hassle.

  • 29 March 2013

  • News: How Apple could make GarageBand better for podcasters

    In 2006 Apple introduced GarageBand 3, an update that put features for podcasters at the fore. In the intervening seven years, GarageBand has reached version 6 (or, if you prefer, '11), but Apple has done little to make it more useful to creators of spoken-word audio.

  • Test Centre: Group test: What's the best soundbar?

    We review six of the best soundbars available to buy today.

  • 28 March 2013

  • Opinion: How we produce our podcasts

    Shortly after the first 50 episodes of the Macworld Podcast, I was tasked with producing (though hosting just every other week) these weekly spoken-audio efforts. While I have made adjustments to some of the tools I use, my workflow has changed very little.

  • 27 March 2013

  • News: Nokia launches subscription-based music service

    Mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia, is the newest name in the subscription-based music service game, having launched its own offering, Nokia Music+, yesterday.

  • 26 March 2013

  • News: Windows 8 Music app update hits the right notes but gets no standing ovation

    The Windows app update parade keeps on marching. Mere hours after an update for Windows 8's Mail, Calendar, and People apps popped up in the Windows Store, the operating system's baked-in Music app is receiving a refresh of its own, though the alterations are subtle tweaks rather than a substantial overhaul.

  • 25 March 2013

  • Opinion: Zombieland pilot, 12 others due to shamble onto Amazon

    The pay video content space is going increasingly crazypants as platforms become content creators and creators become platforms. And in that vein, onetime online bookstore Amazon has announced that it will be bringing a TV series based on the cult horror-comedy-angsty flick Zombieland to its Amazon Prime Instant Video service.

  • News: Hands on with Audiobus and GarageBand

    In a recent update, Apple made the iOS version of GarageBand compatible with the popular audio-channeling utility Audiobus. Although Apple provides ways for some apps to communicate with others--Facebook and Twitter hooks built into iOS, for example--until Audiobus came along, moving sound between iOS music apps was a clumsy process that required saving and exporting audio files and then importing them into compatible apps.

  • Opinion: Key sounds: Get better sound for your home entertainment

    Whereas most consumer technology becomes impossibly slimmer and smaller with each new generation, the rules of physics demand decent-size speaker cones should you want to achieve the best sound. But rules were meant to be broken, and you can get 'good enough' sound from a smaller, more stylish solution.

  • 22 March 2013

  • Opinion: New TV seasons and surprising continuations

    This week, I look at some shows that mostly got unexpected second lives, whether from rebooting, lasting longer than expected, or coming back in a different form.

  • How-Tos: Wish lists, upcoming-track alerts, adding comments to multiple tracks, and more

    This week I answer a couple of questions about the iTunes Store, explain how to add comments to multiple tracks at once, and discuss the useful Skip when Shuffling tag. I also reveal a way to have iTunes announce what track is about to be played.

  • 19 March 2013

  • News: Piracy doesn't hurt online music sales, according to EU study

    Illegal music downloads have negligible impact on digital music sales according to a new study by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC).

  • 14 March 2013

  • News: Music industry revenues climb again

    The music industry is "recovering" from the depredations long said to be due to illegal digital downloads, says a report by IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry).

  • 08 March 2013

  • How-Tos: Joining CD tracks, quickly adding items to playlists, and iTunes device limits

    Looking for the way to join tracks when you rip CDs with iTunes 11? Need to know how to get tracks into playlists quickly? What about iTunes Store device limits and gifting apps? All this and more in this week's column.

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