Contrastream gives indie music a boost
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Contrastream, a new social music site, employs a similar voting system to Digg to determine the hottest new indie songs.
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An open-source application for Mac OS X encodes music using just about any audio file format imaginable. In Monkey Bites.
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Former execs from iriver, Musicmatch and Diamond Multimedia work in stealth mode on a new MP3 player that could be the first major advance in years. By Eliot Van Buskirk.
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These funds are going for a song, but are they worth the price?
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2007 was a year of duality for music. While the industry continued to tank, it was quietly a very good year for rock 'n' roll and indie music.
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$30m blown on Desperation Derby Midem So when the going gets weird, the weird get ad-funded. Even in the short, strange history of digital music, they don't come weirder than Qtrax, a music service that launched here at Midem in Cannes today. It's a marriage of two desperate industries â the music business, and the ad-supported web startup. To steal a phrase from Sun's Scott McNealy, it's like watching two garbage trucks colliding.â¦
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Several new online services  have emerged with their own takes on digital music discovery.
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This music playback app is only available as a "developer's preview," but it already offers excellent features for grabbing music from MP3 blogs and other web-based music forms. In Listening Post. <img src=" http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/music/xml.gif
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After a disappointing start, live online music is poised for success. With new technology and Web 2.0 networks in place to fuel the boom, record labels become the last remaining sticking point between you and some rockin' web shows. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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Broadband Instruments, a stealth company first covered here, launches its Slacker music ecosystem soon. In Listening Post.
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There is little obviously similar about Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem.
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With readers' help, Listening Post ferrets out a new digital-music project ramping up in San Diego. It's still under wraps but vets from iRiver, Rio and Musicmatch are involved. In Listening Post.
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A new music service called FlyTunes is making a bid for the attention of users of the iPhone, iPod touch and other portable media players and media-ready cell phones.
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Grokster, one of the best-known P2P services (at least one of the best-known by the RIAA &amp; co), has taken yet another step in its path to make its P2P service to please the record labels by teaming up with a start-up called Mercora to provide an artist
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Scads of music services are making a power play for your digital dollars. We shine a light into the murk and pick out the gems. By Mathew Honan from Wired Test.
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The old-school audiophile's format of choice is making a quiet comeback. Record sales are climbing as fans turn to vinyl for high-end home listening while continuing to buy MP3s for portability. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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The videocassette in film: an unsettling innovation, a romanticized artifact, an LP in an MP3 world.