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  • 22 May 2012

  • News: Sonos announces Sub subwoofer

    On Tuesday, Sonos, maker of multi-room music systems, announced the Sonos Sub. Designed to work with all amplified Sonos components--including the Connect:Amp/ZonePlayer 120/ZonePlayer 100, Play:5 ( Macworld rated 4 out of 5 mice ), and Play:3 ( Macworld rated 5 out of 5 mice )--the subwoofer features two force-canceling speakers positioned face to face and dual acoustic ports.

  • 21 May 2012

  • News: Supreme Court lets stand $675,000 fine for music downloads

    The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider the petition of Joel Tenenbaum, a former doctoral student at Boston University who faces a fine of US$675,000 for illegally downloading 30 songs.

  • 07 May 2012

  • News: SRS introduces iWow Universal audio enhancer

    On Monday SRS Labs announced the iWow Universal (iWow-U), a hardware adapter meant to improve the audio quality of sound coming from any device with a standard 3.5mm headphone jack.

  • 02 May 2012

  • News: Asking the iTunes Guy

    Two weeks ago, a group of us gathered around the virtual table to grind iTunes into the dust. As much fun as it is to second-guess our betters, it's not always helpful. In this episode we once again look at iTunes, but this time from the angle of problem solving and oft-overlooked features. We do that with Macworld's Ask the iTunes guy, Kirk McElhearn.

  • News: Spotify comes to the iPad

    As of Wednesday, Spotify customers have yet another device they can stream their songs to: The music subscription service is now available as a native app for the iPad.

  • 01 May 2012

  • News: Three alternate iOS music player apps

    While the Music app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch might be sufficient for you, there are plenty of other apps you can use to listen to music on your iOS device. Some offer unique ways of organizing and listening to music, and others focus on providing better sound. Here’s a look at three apps that you can use to listen differently to music on iOS.

  • 26 April 2012

  • News: Dutch developers win contest with Spotify cover scanner mash-up

    A team of Dutch developers won a 30-hour hacking challenge at the Next Web conference Thursday with a service that uses a webcam to scan album covers in the database of online streaming music service Spotify.

  • 13 April 2012

  • News: iTunes 11 in the works at Apple

    Apple has begun internally seeding iTunes 11, the next major release of iTunes for Mac and PC.

  • 12 April 2012

  • News: The Gadget Show Live 2012 in pictures

    The Gadget Show Live 2012 has opened its gates to the public once again at the NEC in Birmingham.

  • 11 April 2012

  • News: Remains of the Day: Chasing the clouds away

    The forecast for the next version of iTunes is cloudy; Apple's got stormy weather ahead in court; and Nokia and Microsoft could really use a ray of sunshine about now. The remainders for Wednesday, April 11, 2012 are no snow job.

  • 29 March 2012

  • News: Remains of the Day: The music, man

    Tim Cook takes a stroll down the Foxconn production line, smartphones and feature phones meet halfway, and Spotify keeps pumping those tunes for free. The remainders for Thursday, March 29, 2012 are music to your ears.

  • News: iTunes 10.6.1 squashes several bugs

    Apple has released iTunes 10.6.1, an update that addresses several problems introduced in iTunes 10.6.

  • 20 March 2012

  • News: Sonos releases new desktop controller for Mac

    Sonos, maker of multiroom wireless home speaker systems like the Multi-Room Music System 2.7 and the Play:3, released the latest version of its Mac Controller app on Tuesday. The Controller app, which allows users to remotely control their Sonos speaker system, recieved updates that include a sleeker look and improvements to search, streaming, and volume control.

  • News: Music service Deezer adds offline mode to browser client

    Using HTML5, music service Deezer has added an "offline mode" that can be accessed directly via a browser, the company said on Tuesday.

  • 16 March 2012

  • News: Get Genius and iTunes Match to live together in harmony

    In a welcome move, Apple's iOS 5.1 update included, among other features, the return of Genius Mixes and Genius Playlist for subscribers to iTunes Match. At least, in theory. Initially, we--and many others, if Apple's support discussions are any indication--found that the Genius features either didn't work or didn't even appear on our iOS devices after installing the 5.1 upgrade.

  • 07 March 2012

  • News: iTunes 10.6 adds 1080p support, iTunes Match improvements

    On Wednesday, Apple released an updated version of iTunes to add support for 1080p video and address several issues with iTunes Match.

  • 06 March 2012

  • News: File-sharing services maintain their popularity -- at work

    When technicians from Palo Alto Networks installed one of the company's firewalls in a Fortune 100 company, they were surprised when the device began examining a massive data stream in and out of the network.

  • 23 February 2012

  • News: Remains of the Day: You can't take the spacious skies from me

    Apple's data centers are soon to stretch from sea to shining sea, even as iPhone thieves fail to crown their good with brotherhood. And the iTunes Store is filled with amber soundwaves of grain. The remainders for Wednesday, February 22, 2012 are above the fruited plain.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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