March 11: It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre highlighting a free music podcast. So far this month we’ve highlighted podcasts with lots of nice music: Nice piano music Nice guitar music Nice americana music Nice Irish and Celtic music More f***ing nice music They gotta lotta […]

Ever wonder why your iPod seems to play certain songs over and over? According to recent research, Apple wants you to listen to Lionel Richie, but not Led Zeppelin or John Mayer, on your iPod. Researchers set up Apple’s iTunes to create multiple random playlists of songs that were purchased from iTunes or ripped from […]

Griffin Technology has announced its latest lines of cases for iPods. Griffin’s Spring Case Collection includes: Reflect for iPod with video & nano (MSRP – $24.99) Reflect’s tinted reflective polycarbonate shell protects the iPod and hides the screen from others. But whenever backlighting is activated, the screen becomes visible through the tinted case. Two Reflect […]

March 10: It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre going to do our best to hook you up a great free music podcast. CC Chapman saw the potential for the combination of indie music and podcasting early on. He’s been producing the Accidental Hash podcast for over […]

Use of streaming video increased 38.8% in 2006 across all entertainment and media sites, including free (ad-supported) and subscription services. Internet music radio grew by 17.9% in ‚Äò06. The largest streaming video networks include Internet aggregation sites such as Yahoo, MSN, Real Networks. Traditional media brands such as Disney/ABC and CBS also command significant video […]

Universal Music Group and Bolt have announced that they have reached an out-of-court settlement resolving the lawsuit brought by UMG against Bolt. UMG sued Bolt for copyright infringement in connection with the unauthorized use of UMG‚Äôs video and music content on the Bolt website. Universal sought damages of up to $150,000 for each video distributed […]

Edwards Air Force Base has launched a video podcast, Dateline Edwards, the first video podcasts in the Department of Defense, according to the base. “We’re very proud of’Dateline Edwards and have been looking for ways to expand its distribution,” said Dawn Waldman, 95th ABW Public Affairs chief of electronic news. “Soon after we started the […]

San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) is warning commuters that Apple’s iconic white earbuds are magnets for thieves. “Don’t be a target!” warns a BART flier distributed by at station entrances. “Use ear buds other than the standard iPod white, or other aftermarket headphones.” About 1 out of 10 robberies on the BART […]

March 08: It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre highlighting a free music podcast. The University of Washington’s KEXP is a great example of what public radio can do. They play an eclectic music mix of rock, hip-hop, electronic, country, blues and world music. You can stream […]

The Linux on iPod developer blog has announced that 5.5g iPods can now run Linux…..in case you’re the type that wants to run Linux on your 5.5g iPod. Many thanks and cheers to the hard work by DataGhost et al. in figuring out all of the final little bits in getting 5.5th gen iPods working […]