Amazon Music is leading an effort to expand the company into live audio, joining the likes of Clubhouse, Twitter, Facebook and Spotify, but putting its own spin on things. That’s… Read More
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Rhapsody, the Seattle-based company that operates the Napster subscription music service, is cutting an undisclosed number of jobs, part of an effort to sharpen its focus in the face of ongoing competition… Read More
Seattle-based Rhapsody International, which operates the Napster music service, posted a profit of more than $1.6 million in the third quarter on record revenue of more than $54 million, several months… Read More
Rhapsody, the granddaddy of music streaming services, will dump its longtime name in the U.S. in favor of the Napster brand that it has been using internationally, creating “one global… Read More
Seattle-based MediaNet, a pioneer business-to-business music technology provider, has been acquired by SOCAN, a premiere performing-rights organization in Canada. The move, which was effective Tuesday, gives SOCAN a major technological… Read More
iTunes has been the king of digital music downloads for the past ten years, but the latest numbers show Amazon slowly gaining ground. The NPD Group is out with its… Read More
A federal judge’s ruling in favor of Capitol Records in a suit against the ReDigi digital music service could have implications for Amazon.com and other companies that have been eying… Read More
Rhapsody, the digital music subscription service based in downtown Seattle, saw its revenue rise nearly 13 percent in 2012, to $143.7 million, while the company reduced its annual loss to… Read More
Seattle Weekly is out with its annual “Best of Seattle” awards, and in a city that takes pride in its remaining indie record shops — the ones standing tall in… Read More
Audiogalaxy, one of the original music file-sharing services and “one of the greatest defunct websites of all time,” marked its return today with a new approach that gives users an alternative… Read More
Ten years ago this weekend, on Dec. 3, 2001, the Rhapsody music service was launched by Listen.com, pioneering the concept of on-demand music. A lot has changed since then. Rhapsody… Read More
Rhapsody is rolling out a new slate of social features today, including the ability for users to create profile pages, share playlists on social networks, follow other Rhapsody members and… Read More
Is there a place for an old linear medium in a bright shiny digital media world? That is the question that you might think haunts Classical KING-FM Seattle. Not only… Read More
Used to be that Amazon.com’s 69-cent MP3 section was the digital equivalent of the bargain bin at the record store, full of older tracks in low demand. But no more,… Read More
RealNetworks has developed a new program called Rinse for cleaning up and organizing Apple iTunes libraries on Windows PCs and Macs — automatically adding album artwork, fixing song names, organizing… Read More
The popular Spotify music service is making headlines in Europe this morning with new limits on its signature offering — cutting back on the amount of on-demand music that longtime… Read More
Billboard magazine has gotten its hands on a letter from Amazon.com to the major music labels that illustrates the philosophical divide over the Seattle company’s Cloud Drive music locker and… Read More
Rhapsody International, on its own now for a full year, has added more than 100,000 new subscribers over the past year, climbing to more than 750,000 — capitalizing on a… Read More