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Apple sticks with 79p per iTunes song

News We've renewed our agreements with the major music companies and we're pleased to continue offering iTunes customers music at 99 cents per song from a library of over 3 million songs," the representative said in a statement.

2 May 2006, 11:44

Digital music singing new sales song

News But at 79p per song, a ten-song iTunes playlist costs nearly £8 to download, which limits the number of songs that people can actually listen to, subscription service executives say. As long as two people trading song recommendations have both paid...

20 January 2006, 10:58

News.blog: 'Guitar Hero III' setlist unfolds

News As usual, the 11-song list offers a nice blend of time-tested rock anthems by the Rolling Stones, Fog Hat and Alice Cooper, as well as new classics by the likes of the Beastie Boys, Weezer and Smashing Pumpkins.

24 May 2007, 10:26

Web site that works while you whistle

News Do you ever find yourself humming a song whose title, to your frustration, you don't know or can't remember? New search Web site Midomi is designed to actually identify that song for you in as little as ten seconds.

29 January 2007, 9:23

Apple to let you buy music via mobile?

News A patent application filed by Apple in December 2004 appears to cover a method of buying a song, ring tone or music video from an online store over a wireless network. It describes an invention that allows mobile phone or wireless handheld users to...

5 May 2006, 11:16

Google whistles new tune

News Google is set to launch a new service today intended to give searchers fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page. Google Music will allow a user to type in the name of a band, artist, album or song in...

15 December 2005, 11:01

Napster: the first five listens are free

News Napster has unveiled a free ad-supported version of its online music service that allows users to listen to any song in its library as many as five times. Once a user tries to access a song for the sixth time, however, they will be given the choice...

2 May 2006, 10:39

Microsoft planning music subscription service

News With Apple's dominance over the digital music business growing, Microsoft is planning to bolster its own online song store with a new subscription service later this year, sources familiar with the plans say.

10 June 2005, 11:26

P2P network opens for legit business

News But this time, a Garth Brooks song picked at random seemed to download without any problem. The song started, and it was indeed the country crooner's voice. The software was supposed to identify and block virtually any copyrighted song being...

25 October 2005, 10:48

iTunes update raises privacy concerns

News The new music software includes a 'MiniStore' window, which provides recommended links to Apple's music download service when a listener actively clicks on a song in their personal playlist, including songs that haven't been purchased from the...

13 January 2006, 10:05

Jobs gains ground in iTunes pricing war

News According to a report in the New York Post, the big four record labels had been pushing Apple to agree to introduce variable pricing instead of the 79 pence per song model the online song shop now uses.

24 April 2006, 10:40

Music moguls trumped by Steve Jobs?

News Frustrated at what they see as Jobs' intransigence on song pricing and other issues, some record executives are now turning their hopes toward other partners, particularly mobile phone carriers eager to get into the business of selling music.

21 April 2005, 20:17

Apple under fire for embedding personal data in songs

News Apple includes customer names and email addresses within song files purchased from iTunes, according to Fred von Lohmann, an EFF attorney. DRM is also restrictive, telling you how many times you can play a song or which device it can be played on.

4 June 2007, 10:07

News.blog: Warner pulls catalogue from Last.fm

News Last.fm offers an on-demand streaming service that's free to members but has been seriously hamstrung by limits placed on song playback. The site allows users to listen three times to a song. Warner Music Group has pulled its entire catalogue from...

Tags: streaming, listen, song, warner

9 June 2008, 10:00

Inside a CD-less music label

News The idea is to release short three-song clusters online every few months over the course of nearly two years, allowing musicians to grow artistically and build an audience, an approach that differs radically from betting everything on a single 12...

11 November 2005, 10:50