Apple Music To Stream At 20% Below Industry Standard 320kps

Jimmy Iovine may pontificate about the importance of audio quality when he's selling Beats headphones and speakers, but apparently he's less concerned with the quality of the music streams delivered. Continue reading

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Full Text Of Monday’s Apple Music Announcement

Today Apple unveiled a much anticipated overhaul its music service along with the launch of its Beats-inspired paid subscription music streamer (more details here). Dubbed Apple Music, here is the full. Continue reading

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Apple Blames Internal Server Error For Widespread iTunes, App Store Outage

UPDATE: Apple blamed an internal server error for the widespread outage of its iTunes and App stores that impacted customers worldwide yesterday.  The problems appear to have been fixed.

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MusicThinkTank Weekly Recap: Rocket Fuel – What can a new Platform add to the world of Crowd-funding?

 IANSC | Rocket Fuel – What can a new Platform add to the world of Crowd-funding? Jesse Lakes | How To Become a Digital Music Marketing Superhero

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Make Dropbox Your Own Music Cloud With TuneBox

By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. If you’re sick of working as your own music system administrator (i.e. someone who spends lots of time moving music from one place to. Continue reading

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Last Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot

Disconnect Your Music Service From Facebook NOW Disappearing Tracks: Music Is Not Safe On Apple's iCloud Spotify, Pandora Form Streaming Audio Task Force  Music Crowdfunding Myths

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The Case Of The Disappearing Tracks: Your Music Is Not Safe On Apple’s iCloud

(UPDATED) Apple's iCloud appears to be a safe and useful place to store music. After all, few portable devices have the memory to store all the old CD's you've ripped,. Continue reading

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Amazon Finally Gets Closer To iTunes With Launch Of Cloud Player MP3 Store

Amazon inched toward actually being a true iTunes competitor today with a major update to its Cloud Player music application. It adds an integrated MP3 store, which will lets users browse. Continue reading

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New Apple TV Software Adds Direct Streaming From The Cloud

By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Apple reportedly plans to release new software on September 18 for its popular Apple TV hardware ($99), which lets you listen to music on. Continue reading

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Apple’s iCloud Hit By Another Outage

As music and the rest of our lives moves into the cloud, our reliance on constant connectivity grows.  But service is far from bullet proof. Around midnight ET Wedenesday portions. Continue reading

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