The latest revolution in pay forever music, Spotify, is failing in the marketplace, generating poor conversion and retention numbers. This casts the company’s recent decision to loosen a hated restriction on how many times free subs can play a song …

How do you wake up in the morning and is your iPhone charged when your eyes greet the day? Here at the Fairer Platform mom, dad and the kids all have personal iHomes and we get waked by our choice …

The industrious one, a.k.a. Jason Perkins, has released the latest version of his top-shelf stand-alone Pandora, Last.fm and Grooveshark client for the fairer platform. There’s a lot to like in this whole-number release — step inside for the details.
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Lots of good things in this very new version of VLC Media Player — the interface is slick, well designed and, in a word, Mac. There is a proper equalizer, Lion fullscreen, (experimental) Blu-ray support, improved subtitle functionality, codec support …

I came into possession of a large collection of FLAC encoded music files and they wouldn’t play unaided in Apple’s jukebox software. That’s a problem because all of the other music, movie, etc. files my wife, children and I have …

For music industry, Steve Jobs has been both destroyer and savior. Despite years of kicking and screaming, music has turned the turned the digital corner with revenues and profits finally starting to tick up after a decade of decline.
In recognition …

An indispensable tool that I don’t use very often. Then again, baseball season is almost here and I am very much looking forward to another year in the basement — go Seawolves!
When the first pitch is thrown, I will be …

If you haven’t already gotten Boxee for your Mac or PC, it may be too late as the company has pulled the apps from their website. A little digging around on shows TechSpot’s still offering the Mac version, but Boxee …

Arguably, the Bondi Blue iMac saved Apple and the iPod made the company sing, turning Windows users into switchers and millions of lives would never be the same. Additionally, whereas the iPod classic popularized the concept, it was the flash …

Are these the ones you’re looking for? Mac owners that also use an Android or Blackberry have limited music and data sync choices, but options there are and, thankfully, constant improvement is part of the equation.
Winamp bills itself as the …