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The long-delayed but much-anticipated service from Qtrax is finally going to launch - supposedly going live this Sunday at 12:00 am Eastern. Qtrax, in case you haven't heard, is a

SprialFrog, the big music industry's experiment with free music downloads, is bleeding money and considering hiring bloggers to improve their public profile. According to financial filings required by the

Spain/US-based MyStrands announced today that it's raised $25 Million "to lead the social recommendation industry". MyStrands is a music discovery and social networking site that covers the PC, mobile and

Moody offers a different way to categorize your music collection. Using color-coded tagging, this app lets you categorize your iTunes music based on the "mood" of the song. Horizontally, the

An interesting new online video series, called Open Media Web, debuted today. The first episode is an interview with Yahoo's Lucas Gonze - who created music playlisting service WebJay,

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/FanCovers_is_YouTube_For_Amateur_Music'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; There's no denying that amateur music is hot right now, especially in the United States. Both NBC and Fox have

digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Last_fm_Launches_Video_Aims_To_Be_The_MTV_Of_Web_2_0_Age'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Online radio station Last.fm is adding a video section to its site this week, enabling users to create their own

Online BitTorrent client BitLet has released a new service that lets users stream MP3 and Ogg encoded music directly from torrent files. The new music feature, called westeam, works by

Plenty happening in the digital lifestyle space this week. R/WW Network blog last100 reports on the following 3 stories: BitTorrent releases SDK for set-top-boxes and other devices: BitTorrent, the company

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Songbird_Will_Desktop_Web_Blends_Take_Off'; Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus Music makes us happy. So happy in fact that we shake, smile and fork off billions of