Ambitious online music magazine Idiomag serves up synchronized songs, photos, videos and articles from and about artists it believes you’ll like, based on your past behavior. Today the company is opening up its store-room of dynamically aggregated content to 3rd party developers through a particularly exciting API (application programming interface). Beyond just media content, Idiomag [...]

Today, SanDisk announced the Sansa slotMusic player, which it claims is the easiest MP3 player for “loading and listening to music on the go.” The slotMusic microSD cards were announced in September and today we see a $20 music player to play said microSD cards.

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Tired of the tyranny of headphone wires when listening to “Headphone Silence” on your iPod 200 times in a row? Who isn’t! Lucky for you there’s Onkyo’s MHP-UW2, a pair of unfortunately named wireless headphones that operate on the 2.4GHz frequency. You have to plug a receiver into the bottom of your iPod in order [...]

Phew! For a second there I actually believed Apple when it threatened to shut down iTunes. Now it won’t have to, seeing as though the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington has left royalty rates unchanged.
And what does Apple have to save, now that it knows it will only have to pay 9.1 cents per song [...]

Just a quick note regarding iTunes. Apple has updated it to version 8.0.1, and this release fixes a few quirks that no doubt annoyed some of you. The bug that caused iTunes to copy over HD versions of a TV show with an SD version is now squashed.

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A federal panel will decide if Apple, Amazon and the like should pay higher royalties to music publishers. But 99¢ songs likely aren’t going anywhere
A contentious battle between Apple and part of the music industry is set be decided today (Oct. 2), when a panel of judges appointed by Congress is expected to rule whether [...]

In a post on muxtape.com, Ouellette finally explains why he had to shut down the service: He’d been trying to cut deals with big labels, but the RIAA (which represents the big labels) made a mess of things — including getting Amazon to boot him off its AWS cloud platform. In the end, it was [...]

There’s no way Hulu is going to let Joost get a foothold in the race for attention in online professionally produced video.
So what happens when Joost ditches the download, goes all browser and launches a social network around their content?

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by Caroline McCarthy

With the launch of the much-anticipated MySpace Music expected within the week, tech industry wags are already asking if MySpace’s archrival Facebook has its own “social music” strategy.

Tags: advertising, Entertainment, facebook, media, music, myspace, social networking