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Thankfully, technology has found a way to remove that persistent phantom tune you just can't place. So you'd never wonder "What song is this?" ever again, here four music recognition apps you need to have today. -
Google Doodle Honors Hawaiian Music Icon Israel "Iz" Kamakawiwo'ole
Influential Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwo'ole receives a cartoon tribute from Google Doodle on his 61st birthday, May 20. -
Google Mistakes Tool for Rapper, Sends Fans Wrong Album Release Alert
Google announced this week that Tool has a new album out, but the band is not due to release a follow-up to '10,000 Days' until next year. Instead, 'IllutionWorld' is from a rapper from SoundCloud. -
Neil Young Launches Tirade Against Google For Ripping Off Artists
Neil Young recently criticized Google, Facebook, and Amazon for allegedly ripping off artists. The 72-year-old musician has not received a response from the three companies. -
Nas Writes Open Letter To Honor Black Musicians For Black History Month Celebration
Nas recounted how the music of the black artists before him has influenced his life as a young man in Queens. The hip-hop and rap veteran wrote a letter celebrating Black History Month. -
Rhapsody Rebrands Itself as Napster à la Early 2000s P2P Music Piracy Heyday, Aughties Nostalgia Reaches Critical Mass
Yesterday, music streaming service Rhapsody announced they are rebranding themselves as Napster, the name of the popular but ultimately doomed early-aughts peer-to-peer file sharing service the company acquired in 2011. -
Google Being Sued By Same Band Suing TIDAL Over Royalty Payments
The American Dollar and Yesh Music are back at it again with another lawsuit. The band, led by John Emanuele, and his publishing company have decided to sue Google for alleged unpaid royalties. This comes just a short while after they went after TIDAL for the same alleged issue. -
Are Spotify, Apple Music, and Other Streaming Services Actually Boosting Record Sales?
Are music streaming services really as bad as some artists paint them out to be? -
Google Retiring Songza Website, App For Streaming Push
Google has decided to retire the Songza brand in favor of swallowing it whole for its big push into streaming. The playlist curation service was acquired by Google in July 2014 and over a year and a half later on Jan, 31, 2016 Google will retire the website and app to officially become a piece of Google Play Music. -
Google Founder Eric Schmidt Calls Apple Music "Elitist" as Opposed to "Democratic"
In an op-ed for the BBC, Google founder and Alphabet Chairman Eric Schmidt had some harsh words directed at Apple Music's tactics to pursue human curated playlists, calling the approach "elitist" (as opposed to Google's own "Democratic" approach). -
Google Play's 'Classical Live' Gives Orchestras New Outlet for Live Records
Perhaps the largest effort to bring classical into the digital age, Google's upcoming music platform, dubbed 'Classical Live' aims to bring together audiences of all stripes. The idea is to provide listeners with exactly what the namesake denotes: exclusive live recordings of the world's most well-known orchestras. -
Google's Self Driving Cars to Hit the Road This Summer
This summer in Mountain View, California, expect to see Google's self-driving cars leave the test track to weave in and out of traffic for the very first time. -
YouTube Still Unprofitable Despite Posting $4 Billion Revenue In 2014
YouTube still is not turning a profit. Sources tell the Wall Street Journal that the massive video sharing service posted $4 billion in revenue in 2014. This is an improvement on 2013's posting of $3 billion, but the company is still only barely breaking even. -
Lawsuit Against Google, Sony, Rdio, Beats Electronics and More May End Pre-1972 Music Streaming and Internet Radio
Music streaming controversy has gotten uglier as a lawsuits have been filed against Google, Sony Entertainment, Rdio, Songza, Apple's Beats Electronics and more on behalf of the music group that owns the catalogues of the Flying Burrito Brothers, Hot Tuna and Purple Sage. The results of the collective legal push could result in thousands of songs written prior to 1972 disappearing from the internet. -
Search for Lyrics on Google
Google is once again looking to change the way we search. The Silicon Valley giant has just revealed its new lyric searching system that allows users to search for song lyrics, and the words will come up as a native Google result. The result pulls from Google Play's growing library of music. A link to the lyrics can also be found under an official YouTube link. One source told "Billboard" how Google was able to get this done, saying, "They're creating the database themselves. They've done direct licensing deals with the major publishers to enable the service, and they're doing it internally at the moment. The data isn't crowd-sourced; there's a team of people working to create the database." This is a huge blow to sites like AZLyrics and Metrolyrics, which have benefited tremendously from the status quo.
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