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PC Magazine
October 29, 2003 |
Online Music Stores: Music to Your Ears? As Apple iTunes Music Store for the Mac showed, users wanted to download as much or as little as they liked and pay only for what they bought. Now that the winning formula has been hit upon, it's rapidly being improved.   |
PC Magazine
November 29, 2006
Rick Broida |
Buying Guide: Online Music Services Two thousand six may well be remembered as the year music subscription services went platinum. |
PC Magazine
November 11, 2003
Cade Metz |
Let the Music Play We review all the tools you need to satisfy your digital music urges. |
BusinessWeek
March 29, 2004
Larry Armstrong |
E-Tune Shopping With downloading now legit, online music stores have similar catalogs. It's the extras that set them apart. |
PC World
July 2003
Michael Gowan |
Apple's ITunes Music Store Is a Winner Windows users will have to wait for a compatible version, however. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Which Online Music Service Will Have the Longest Playing Time? Since May 2003, when Apple's online music service, iTunes, opened its digital doors, the drums announcing other online music services -- new enterprises as well as existing music services spruced up and recharged -- have been steadily beating. Which ones will have longevity? |
PC Magazine
December 8, 2005
Troy Dreier |
Rhapsody.com (beta) Rhapsody's flexible new service for music lovers lets you get to your music from anywhere, although many rough edges remain. |
PC Magazine
May 28, 2009
Jamie Lendino |
Napster (Spring 2009) Napster's latest redesign is its best one yet, with a compelling unlimited music streaming offer for just $5 per month. |
PC World
December 1, 2007
Cathy Lu |
Napster, Amazon MP3: Digital Music Done Differently Napster's music-subscription service has a great playlist function; Amazon's MP3 store is easy to navigate and very affordable. |
PC Magazine
November 30, 2005
Troy Dreier |
Virgin Digital (with Red Pass) For all-you-can-eat music, Virgin Digital with Red Pass has the lowest no-commitment monthly rate of any major online service and it can surprise you, too. |
Knowledge@Wharton
July 2, 2003 |
Online Music Wings its Way to the Celestial Jukebox In a celestial jukebox, instead of downloading songs to a computer hard drive or burning them onto a CD, listeners log onto a site that streams the music directly to their computers for immediate listening. It's like having your own all-request FM channel. |
PC World
January 2004
Eric Dahl |
Big-Time Music Services Arrive New stores from Apple, Musicmatch, and Napster offer legal, affordable tunes. |
PC Magazine
October 14, 2003 |
Rhapsody Gets Real RealNetworks' RealOne Rhapsody has everyone happy including music fans, and thanks to a clever security technique that prevents piracy, record execs, too. |
PC Magazine
July 26, 2004
Troy Dreier |
Musicmatch Jukebox 9.0 The service contains two smart additions that make it easier to enjoy and share music online: You can now subscribe to an all-you-can-stream plan and share playlists with friends. |
PC Magazine
February 25, 2009
Jamie Lendino |
Amazon MP3 (Winter 2009) Amazon's online music sells unrestricted music that's high quality, compatible with almost any player, and often cheaper than what it would cost on iTunes... iLike... Lala... |
PC World
August 2005
Eric Dahl |
Yahoo Does Portable Music Downloads Yahoo Music Unlimited promises a million songs for about half the cost of competing services. |
InternetNews
April 27, 2005
Michael Singer |
Real Throws Weight Into Music Competition RealNetworks hopes its new Rhapsody services will put the company alongside the likes of Napster and iTunes. |
New Architect
March 2002
Margaret Berry |
What I Want Developing user-friendly DRM... |
PC World
January 18, 2002
Tom Spring |
Digital Music: Worth Buying Yet? Analysis: Official music sites debut, intended to nudge digital downloads to legitimacy--but they're more trouble than they're worth. |
Home Theater
October 27, 2008 |
Lala Offers Two Ways to Buy Music Downloads and streaming are nothing new. But lala.com offers both with an unusual angle on streaming. |
PC World
October 2005
Anne Kandrta |
How to Beat the Music Download Blues Incompatible formats and players can make getting music online a headache. Here's some advice to help you pick up your favorite tunes online without hassles. |
Home Theater
May 26, 2009 |
$5 Napster Subscription Is Bargain Napster may soon become the world's cheapest legitimate music subscription service, with a new plan that asks consumers for a mere $5/month for five free tracks and a whole lot of streaming. |
The Motley Fool
February 11, 2005
Kelvin Taylor |
Napster Nips at iTunes' Heels The music download service plans to battle Apple with an unlimited-tune subscription deal. |
PC Magazine
November 30, 2004
Troy Dreier |
Streaming-Audio Capture Tools These six tools let you capture live audio streams to listen to whenever and wherever you want. |
PC World
May 14, 2006
Eric Dahl |
First Look: Windows Media Player 11 and MTV Urge Microsoft's streamlined media player and MTV's integrated music service impress in our first tests. |
Macworld
April 2003
David Fannning |
iTunes 3.0.1 Desktop digital-music jukebox for OS X gets welcome additions |
InternetNews
September 1, 2004
Ryan Naraine |
Redmond's MSN Waltz Microsoft opens its long-rumored music store with song downloads for 99 cents apiece. |
PC World
May 2005
Eric Dahl |
Napster Adds Mobile Music Subscriptions For $15 a month, you can download all the songs you want. You just won't be able to play them where ever you want. |
PC World
October 25, 2006
Edward N. Albro |
First Look: Rhapsody 4.0 A worthy update to an already impressive service, version 4.0 helps you discover new music. |
The Motley Fool
March 11, 2005
Kelvin Taylor |
Napster: Can iTunes Do This? A subscription service with unlimited downloads could eat away at Apple's domination. |
PC World
January 1, 2003
Michael Gowan |
Make the Most of Your MP3 Player Follow our tips for easy ripping and keeping your player in shape. Plus: We point you to the best music sites. |
Wired
October 23, 2007
Cliff Kuang |
Free Music Now! Lala.com's Plan to Give Songs Away Could Upend the Industry Bill Nguyen's model to revive the music industry involves giving songs away for free. |
PC World
May 2, 2001
Michael Gowan |
Napster Alternatives If you're an MP3 junkie looking for a fix, we'll tell you which of the Napster alternatives works best... |
The Motley Fool
May 19, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Will Best Buy Kill Apple, Microsoft, and Sirius XM? Napster's pricing plan is going to turn heads. And they might roll. |
PC Magazine
May 16, 2006
Cade Metz |
Mercora Radio 2.0 Alpha Radio gets Web 2.0 functionality in this impressive free service. |
InternetNews
December 24, 2003
Roy Mark |
DOJ Ends Antitrust Probe of Online Music Justice concludes marketplace has resolved early questions of possible anti-competitive behavior of major music labels. |
Home Theater
October 12, 2007
Mark Fleischmann |
TiVo Sings a Duet with Rhapsody Broadband-connected TiVo owners will get a chance to subscribe to one of the leading music services via the DVR, under a deal between TiVo and Rhapsody. |
The Motley Fool
August 18, 2005
Shruti Basavaraj |
Yahoo!'s in the Groove It jumps into the digital music market with its Audio search and Music Unlimited service. Branching out into niche markets seems a good way to pull even with the Google domination and keep this search engine chugging. |
Popular Mechanics
September 5, 2007
Glenn Derene |
The iTunes Store... With Subscriptions? Buzzword As Steve Jobs unveiled the new Apple iPod Touch and iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, we wonder what it would take for a DRM-free, flat-rate music store to go from record-label nightmare to user-friendly dream come true? |
PC Magazine
November 29, 2006
Rick Broida |
Expert View: Apple: Get With The Program There's no wasted space on my mp3 player. |
InternetNews
August 1, 2002 |
Pressplay Goes Unlimited, Rhapsody Does DirecTV Bowing to consumer pressure, the Sony/Universal-backed music service adds permanent downloads, unlimited listening and CD-burning capabilities. Rival Listen.com clinches a deal with DirecTV Broadband. |
PC World
September 2002
Michael Gowan |
Buyers' Guide to MP3 Players Today's players pack more songs than ever, and the devices are easier to manage, too. |
Salon.com
July 30, 2002
Farhad Manjoo |
Sour notes The legal crackdown hasn't squelched MP3 trading -- it's just made it more of a pain. But the music industry would still rather fight than give its online customers what they want. |
The Motley Fool
May 1, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Radio Free Napster The file-sharing pioneer returns to its roots with a free streaming service. But most of those who come for the free tunes are unlikely to ever open up their wallets, and it is unclear whether an ad-supported model can lucratively offset the costs of streaming fat music files. Investors, take note. |
PC Magazine
January 18, 2006
Michael J. Miller |
Now Showing on Small Screens Technology is poised to change TV and movies in the same way as online music stores and digital music players have rewritten the rules for music distribution. |
The Motley Fool
December 6, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Can a Slacker Take Down Satellite Radio? XM and Sirius are set to bump against the Slacker. While it won't be a disruptive force overnight, one can easily see it as a gradual market-share nibbler. |
BusinessWeek
October 30, 2006
Arik Hesseldahl |
Music: Unwired For Sound Suggestions for a wireless home music system. |
PC Magazine
November 2, 2004
Emile Menasche |
Your Music The emergence of legal download services, dedicated network audio receivers and obscenely inexpensive hard drives have made a computer the next must-have component for your home entertainment system. |
PC Magazine
September 17, 2008
Tim Gideon |
Microsoft Zune 16GB Calling the Zune 16GB a new product is a bit of a stretch. With no real hardware changes, and the ability to load the new software onto any of the older models, we're basically looking at the same old player with a paint job. |
Wired
October 2001 |
The Life Cycle of a DRM-Protected File Digital rights management technology locks media files in a gilded cage, where those who own the content can keep them until you rent the key. This illustration tracks the birth, bondage, freedom, and eventual demise of a typical DRM-encoded music file... |
