digital music

According to the Recording Industry Association of America, digital downloads are once again being outsold by CDs and vinyl records for the first time since 2011. Read more: This guy uses vinyl records to make one-of-a-kind Bluetooth speakers Since its origination, it took the digital download until 2011 (nearly a decade after the iPod was […]

Those of us who remember buying C.D.s understand the value of liner notes. Those who grew up fed on files may not realize what you've been missing. Have you ever wondered who on earth is singing the background vocal of that one part of that one song? Or who, in cases of artists that do […]

Digital music streaming and social discovery website Rdio announced today that it has partnered with distributors CD Baby and Tunecore, increasing the site's play-on-demand track catalog to more than 18 million. The catalog expansion puts Rdio just above Spotify in terms of total tracks claimed, according to Tech Crunch. More than 250,000 artists were added […]

Amazon Inc. has announced several improvements to its cloud-based music service, Cloud Player.  They include licensing deals with “Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and more than 150 independent distributors, aggregators and music publishers” that will allow users access to and ability to store more music than before and upgrades […]

Bandcamp, one of the fastest-rising virtual storefronts for digital music, has posted an interesting blog entry stating that users are finding music on their site and paying for it after originally searching for pirated material via Google or other search engines: “A few months ago, we began tracking the starting point of every sale that […]