It's Christmas eve -- if you don't have everyone covered by Christmas presents yet, you're pretty screwed. Well, apart from these beauties that is. Here are your not-even-slightly-lame emergency Crimbo presents you can grab right now, instantly from your computer, and look like a legend come tomorrow morning. Read More >>
One of Google Music's aim-squarely-at-Apple features is 'Scan and Match', which does what it says on the tin. Just like Apple's £22-a-year iTunes Match, it scans your music library and matches it with Google's own library, giving you instant streaming access for free. Well, now it's meant to be working, and what's more, it apparently scans any music you've already uploaded to Google too. Read More >>
Featured comment by MAE85:
"I uploaded all my music to Google Music when it launched in the UK and the match idea is great, but I've found that a lot of my music has been replace..." More »
Android has a really solid, free streaming option now that Google Music's finally launched in the UK, but what about iPhone users? They've been left out in the cold, until now. GoMusic puts Google Music on your iPhone, native style. Read More >>
Featured comment by Jonez86:
"Melodies is a lot better and nicer to look at than both GoMusic and gMusic.
I've been using Melodies for about a month on my iPhone and its been fa..." More »
It seems Neil Young wasn’t talking a load of old cobblers after all – Apple is developing a new audio format according to UK-based sources, but it’s all about streaming music from iCloud. Read More >>
Featured comment by stonemanty:
"I think we might have two kinds of compression in mind here; one as in compressing the audio profile's dynamic range:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..." More »
We've known about iTunes Match for a while, but it just went live in the UK today. The £22/year music service promises to not only store your iTunes purchases in the cloud, but to back up your non-iTunes tracks as well. So how does it work exactly? Read More >>
Featured comment by ASpanishProperty:
"be patient it works fine, however it downloads the songs to you device if you play them, I wondered if there is a way for it to automatically delete t..." More »
Apple updated its terms of service for iTunes in the UK last night, and it seems to have actually rolled out its cloud music service properly this time -- although there's still no mention of iTunes Match on the Apple UK site. Read More >>
Featured comment by almostfamous:
"I converted all my CD's to lossless on a NAS drive, then I can convert down to any format I need from that, depending on what I am putting them on. CD..." More »
Looks like Apple might have hit the go button on the release of iTunes Match in the UK a little early. UK users have been seeing the option to sign up for the cloud music service, but have been bounced back when attempting to get it set up. Read More >>
Featured comment by chanandler:
"Do an iTunes update check and it should then download 10.5.2 which has iTunes Match link on the right. I've just clicked it and opted to sign up and i..." More »
With all that juicy stuff coming out of the Apple campus in Cupertino, there's one thing we're not going to get, at least at launch. Britain gets screwed again, but this time it may not be Apple's fault. Read More >>
Featured comment by darkly:
"Ha, we're used to it by now. We get stiffed at every turn and yet somehow, somehow it always seems to be presented to us like whomsoever it is is doin..." More »
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