After last months announcement from Spotify that a deal had been signed with Sony, music streaming aficionados began getting excited. Finally we were beginning to see some progress on an innovative music streaming service that had been promised to us for many months. As we look onwards in 2011, it’s been well over a year since Spotify originally announced plans to tap the U.S. market. Unfortunately thus far, greed on behalf of the major music labels has stalled...

Big content-owning companies (and companies who do business with them) aren’t the most intelligent, often being completely blind to the larger picture. Case in point: Hulu blocking any device that accesses their free, public web streams. The theory and rationale behind it is beyond backwards and stupid. But arguing about that could take weeks, countless pages, and at least a few trips to some heart-healthy fast food joint. For the sake of time and health,...

Back in the day — like, waaaaay back — there was Napster. It was a monumental service, that regardless of it’s legality, changed the music scene overnight. But during that time, there was another service that never seems to get as much coverage (part of that is because it was looked at as a simple Napster clone). Yes, I’m talking about AudioGalaxy. Several years back, it was your typical download service. Though it’s origins were much...

The music streaming scene is quickly getting saturated these days. Honestly, the services all kind of blend together in my mind as they all do more or less the same thing. But Carphone Warehouse is launching a new service dubbed “Music Anywhere” that while not the first for what it does, is a little different than your common music streaming service. The biggest and most important feature of Music Anywhere is that it scans your hard drive and makes a backup...

Yesterday we heard via a Bloomberg report that negotiations between Spotify and major music labels had broken down, causing a wave of sadness to wash over me and I’m sure countless others. Today, however, in response to those allegations, Spotify confirmed to The Telegraph that they are in fact still on course for a late-2010 release and that yesterday’s assertions hinting that plans were going south were “without substance”. Furthermore, the...