http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/20/eu.deal.for.euro.wide.music.licensing/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/itunes9.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The European Commission today reached a roundtable agreement with several music stores and labels to ensure more widely distributed music for the continent. Apple, Amazon, BEUC, EMI, Nokia, PRS for Music, SACEM, STIM, and Universal now say they will work with the Commission to desegregate music licensing in European Union countries and have labels produce licenses that work across multiple if not... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/20/eu.deal.for.euro.wide.music.licensing/ Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/18/qtrax.outs.music.downloads/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0801/qtrax.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Qtrax recently announced that its free and legal music download service will soon launch, naming October 28th as the launch date in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. A launch in the US, Canada and the UK will happen before year's end, Qtrax informs, while the rest of the world will get the service within the first half of 2010. The re... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/18/qtrax.outs.music.downloads/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/11/cmx.album.music.format/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0908/paulmccartney.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Major music labels are developing their own whole-album music file format after being rebuffed by Apple, a source for a UK newspaper says. Created by EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner, a file format known as CMX would contain both the songs as well as liner notes, attached videos and mobile content. Much like a DVD, it would have its own "launch page" that appears after launching a given file.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/11/cmx.album.music.format/ Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/27/apple.expands.record.deals/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0902/depechemode.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple is planning to expand the content buyers receive when shopping for iTunes music, writes the Financial Times. The company is currently said to be in negotiations with the four major record labels -- EMI, Sony, Warner and Universal -- regarding a project called "Cocktail," aimed at boosting music sales by supplying interactive material with albums. At the core of the concept is a new booklet... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/27/apple.expands.record.deals/ Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:55:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/05/08/ms.may.have.bought.seeqpod/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0904/zunehd-leak2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Seeqpod has been providing clues that suggest it may have been acquired by Microsoft. After entering bankruptcy and suffering repeated site shutdowns, the music-playing search site has come back with a notice that it's undergoing a "metamorphosis" and links to Microsoft's Live Search site instead. Seeqpod chief Kasian Franks has previously acknowledged that his company was in later-stage talks w... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/05/08/ms.may.have.bought.seeqpod/ Fri, 08 May 2009 18:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/21/study.on.piracy.and.music/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0904/ipodnano4g.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Despite a common perception that pirating music decreases sales, a new study published by Norway's Aftenposten this week suggests an opposite effect. Conducted by the BI Norwegian School of Management, the research finds that those between who frequently download music through file sharing services are 10 times more likely to buy music than those that cling only to legal purchases. It also notes... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/21/study.on.piracy.and.music/ Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/07/beatles.remastered.cds/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0904/beatlesremasteredcd.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The Beatles on Tuesday confirmed plans to launch remastered CD versions of their catalog in time with their first digital-only video game release through the Rock Band series. The reworkings are claimed to be the best quality since the originals and each include a QuickTime video documentary about the making of their given albums. A separate collection will include the original mono mixes where ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/04/07/beatles.remastered.cds/ Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:45:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/03/30/google.offers.free.songs/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0903/googlechinasong.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />report maintains that compared to Baidu, Google has not offered high quality legal music downloads, which hurt its popularity. Google will share its advertising revenue with the music labels to make downloads legal and keep artists happy. The brand-new service so far offers 350,000 tracks from Chinese and foreign artists, although this is expected to jump to 1.1 million songs over the next few mon... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/03/30/google.offers.free.songs/ Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/02/cd.sales.drop.20.percent/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0901/ipodshuffle2g.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />By Jeff Valvano Media tracking agency Nielsen SoundScan this week noted that physical album sales in the US have dropped a significant 20 percent between 2007 and 2008 to just 360.6 million copies. The drop marks the seventh decline in eight years and is credited partly to both a shift towards online-only music sales as well as illegal file trading. Nielsen warns in particular that the steep... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/01/02/cd.sales.drop.20.percent/ Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/29/hulu.to.host.music.videos/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0812/WarnerMusic1.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A new video-sharing website may be in the works, as the four major music labels -- Universal, Warner, EMI and Sony BMG -- are in preliminary talks for creating their own web portal, according to a weekend Financial Times report. Early last week, news came of the four labels planning to band together to create a site devoted to music videos and related content. More recently word has leaked of the ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/12/29/hulu.to.host.music.videos/ Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:05:00 GMT