Hornswaggled

This same time yesterday there was a cloud of death hanging over every internet radio broadcater. This cloud otherwise known as the CRB (copyright royalty board) and SoundExchange were going to enforce the first round of new copyright rates they lobbied to pass. As a result nearly every internet broadcaster was going to shut down [...]

Melodeo is proud announce a new mobile and web service called nuTsie beta, this currently FREE mobile music service allows consumers to get their entire iTunes library on their mobile phone. The nuTsie free public beta allows anyone to easily shuffle through all of their iTunes music and playlists in hi-fi quality on their mobile [...]

With a stunning ruling the CRB denied all motions to keep internet radio in the US afloat. This affects all US based internet radio and specifically the much loved Pandora music service.

There is a lot of information on this subject but the basics are that the RIAA pushed for royalty increases in an attempt to [...]

Allofmp3 is down again. Is this the final chapter for this company or just another long outage?
They have been under enormous scrutiny and pressure from the WTO, RIAA, and the US government to shut down. They have been on life support for months as it has been almost impossible to add funds to accounts as [...]

So Pandora has finally inserted ads into their stream. It is currently only a trial but I do have some problems with it. Many times when we have people over at our house we put Pandora on and just leave it going in the background. No need to make a mix cd. Now with the [...]

I still have to give more props to Pandora. This is one of the best services thats out there. If you havent tried it yet, please do. If you enjoy music at all you will love it.
Now if I can only get it to stream off my cell phone!

Well, they have lost it now. Allofmp3 has raised their prices about 400% since the last time I purchased music from them. An album used to cost about a buck, not too long ago it was more like 30 cents, and now 4-5 bucks for the same album. Im sorry but im not willing to [...]

I just ran across Pandora Internet Radio. Its a flash based site a la web 2.0. It helps users find music that interests them and lets you vote thumbs up or thumbs down for each track that comes across. You trpe in the name of the track/artist you like and they match up the style [...]

UPDATE: IT LOOKS LIKE THE SERVICE IS BACK UP AND RUNNING! 5-19-06
It looks like the much loved allofmp3 has gone to sleep for now. The service much like Apples Itunes music store was a place to get entire albums for around a buck. It really was a great service, easy to use, quick and nicely [...]