Apple on Thursday unveiled iTunes 8.0.2, an update to its multimedia player that offers users a more stable platform, and improved accessibility. iTunes 8.0.2 resolves a quality issue some users experienced when creating MP3 files, as well as increased accessibility with VoiceOver. The update also fixes a connectivity issues with the iTunes store, when a user would connect to the store through a ...

Karlheinz Brandenburg, credited with at least jointly "inventing" MP3, has joined with a German development bank to invest in DJTunes, a European music download site offering house, techno, trance and electro tracks in that very file format.

eMusic, the world's largest retailer of independent music and the world's second-largest digital music service after iTunes, today announced that it has sold 250 million MP3 downloads since establishing its current subscription model in 2003. The major milestone comprises music downloads sold in the U.S., Canada and the E.U., where eMusic is available in 26 European nations.

----Keeping your batteries charged and ready to go is an obsession for many consumers of personal electronics. The original patented Eclipse Solar Gear product line is designed to trickle charge the batteries of many types and brands of electronics including cell phones, smart phones, hand-held GPS units, and MP3 players with a convenient solar charging solution.

Windows only: If you are looking for ways to merge a bunch of MP3 files into one larger file, and don't like the command line solution I wrote about earlier this week, try Merge MP3. The application...

We already reported about the Wal-mart Value Bundles over the weekend. Wal-mart is still offering these bundles that make a perfect list and save money. For instance you can get the cute 4GB Creative Zen Mosaic MP3 Player bundled with a pair of portable...

It's official: Hip-hop has discovered Lykke Li . Toronto's Drake , a singer and MC for Lil Wayne's Young Money label-- and former "Degrassi: The Next Generation" cast member-- adds his lightly Auto-Tuned vocals and spry rhymes to this minimal, bass-heavy remix of Youth Novels ' " Little Bit ". And, like fellow Swedish pop songbird Robyn's appearance on the Fyre Department ...

The name Genghis Tron might be a terrible pun (which I'm all for), but it also captures the essence of this Philly-based, electronically enhanced grindcore trio's program-and-pillage sound. The band's five-volume, five-label, limited-edition Board Up the House Remixes series is only the latest application of that approach. For Vol. 4 , coming early next month on Anticon , the ...

Remember how innocent we were back in 2000? Bush and Gore looked " about as different from one another as J. Crew and Banana Republic ," a slick-haired congressman named Gary Condit was a really big deal, and the stock market was booming. Meanwhile, Sleater-Kinney guitarist/singer Carrie Brownstein and former Helium frontwoman Mary Timony were quietly working on a full-length ...

eMusic announced Thursday that it has sold 250 million MP3 downloads since establishing its current subscription model in...