Music

Apple, Beats discuss music streaming service

Poornima Gupta and Ronald Grover Apple has held talks with Beats on a potential partnership involving Beats' planned music-streaming service, sources say.

Stream come true for fans

Adam Turner For a flat monthly fee, online services open a world of music options.

Apple sells 25 billion songs at iTunes store

Apple has announced that the number of digital songs downloaded from its iTunes Music Store has topped 25 billion.

Amazon ramps up challenge to iTunes music store

Amazon.com has launched a service that gives CD buyers instant copies of music in the cloud in a major challenge to Apple's iTunes shop.

Amazon says music catalogue open to Apple users

Amazon says its 22-million song music catalogue is now "optimised" for users of Apple devices, making it easier for iPhone owners to circumvent the iTunes Store.

Radio's next big challenge

Asher Moses Video didn't kill the radio star but a free online music-streaming service called Pandora just might.

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Apple revamps iTunes after delay

Adam Satariano Apple has unveiled a new version of its iTunes media service, overhauling its look and feel while integrating it more closely with the company's iCloud internet-storage service.

iTunes' time has run out

Farhad Manjoo iTunes 11 did not arrive on time. Apple had promised to deliver the next version of its music-management program in October.

Rocker Neil Young wins backers for challenge to iPod

Miles Weiss Rock singer Neil Young has raised $500,000 from an investment group to launch a high-fidelity format for downloading music.

Vevo chief aims to call the tune in music shake-up

Mark Sweney The former Universal mobile chief reveals his frustration with MTV, and explains why no one need own music if his site succeeds.

Tips for tangle-free headphones

Wrangling wires can go from a small problem to a big mess very quickly. Jenneth Orantia untangles the issue.

Microsoft launches new subscription music service

James Manning Microsoft has revamped its subscription music service with the launch of Xbox Music.

Listen up: a brief history of headphones

Fran Berkman Headphones have come a long way in the past 100 years, revolutionising the way we consume media and the way we communicate.

Three-way shootout: Super Audio Compact Disc players

Sight and Sound SACDs sound super but are mostly ignored.

Load them up and let it rip

Sight and Sound These days we can store our entire CD collections in small, convenient boxes.

The harmony of digital music

Modern musicians are turning to the internet to settle their scores, writes Anthony Clarke.

Microsoft to launch rival to iTunes and Spotify

Microsoft plans an expansive Xbox music service joining Spotify-style streaming with download and online-storage functions similar to Apple's iTunes.

Neil Young: Steve Jobs listened to vinyl

RYAN NAKASHIMA Legendary rocker Neil Young has taken his campaign for higher-fidelity digital sound to the stage of a technology conference, saying a giant of the industry was on his side: the late Steve Jobs.

Apple censoring explicit music on iTunes Match

Chris Taylor Apple is unintentionally censoring rap music and other explicit tracks downloaded using its iTunes Match service — by replacing them with the clean versions of the same songs.