The Playlist: Welcome Back, EMusic
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Revisiting the best online music store for indie fans.
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Jazz, Pop, and Country all make an appearance in this week's roundup of new releases.
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Arts & entertainment: Things are changing on the airwaves. Caroline Sullivan finds Radio 1 ditching rock for 'pop'
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Melodeo is prepping an offering that uses a consumer's iTunes playlist to stream music to his or her phone. The service is currently in beta.
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In the coming weeks and months you'll probably see me writing about issues of podcatchers here, because I'm working on one. It's the third one I've written, so this time maybe I'll get it right.  A lot of things have changed since I wrote my first podcatcher back in 2001. 1. Back then there were no podcasts, so it was a proof of concept, a chicken without an egg (or an egg with no chicken), a step in a bootstrap. Today there are lots of podcasts. An embarassment of riches. 2. Back then implementing a podcatcher was simple, there was exactly one format to support, RSS 2.0 with enclosures. Today, luckily, it's still fairly simple, as far as the format goes. The only variability is the iTunes namespace, which complicates things, just a little.  3. Today there are enough users to make it possible to support lists of podcasts published by fans, and instead of just subscribing to the podcast feeds, you can subscribe to lists of feeds. I will publish one of these lists, in OPML 2.0 format, as a proof of concept.  4. The first version of this new podcatcher will run in the OPML Editor because that's where all my software runs at first. But the goal is to port it to run in other environments, some with millions of users. I want to provide a popular alternative to the one that Apple publishes which currently dominates the market. (Note: I'm generally pleased with the way Apple dominates, they've been very fair about allowing users to export their subscription lists. But if we want to create the opportunity for others to innovate in the area of podcast players, there has to be choice at the podcatcher level. That's my main motive for revisiting this area.) There probably are some other changes, and I'll write about them as the project moves forward. Now.... To people who say that Apple has the market sewn up, I say Bah! I think iPods are great, but they're designed to play music, not podcasts. Every bit of music is something you want to keep forever, a podcast loses almost all its value after you've listened to it once. You have to pay for music (in theory at least) but podcasts are free.  Podcasts beg to have a player that can download them without synching with a desktop computer. Okay that's something podcasts have in common with music.  I buy Apple products all the time. I've gone from resenting Apple so much that I wouldn't buy their products, as recently as 2005, to today when not only do I only use Macs, but I'm constantly telling people why they'd be better off using Macs. I can't help but evangelize the products, I think they're that much better than Windows PCs.  But as much as I love Apple (can't believe I actually said that) I still don't trust them with a whole medium. We need them to have competition. The rest of the tech industry seems to think they're immune to it, that creates a huge opportunity with someone with enough chutzpah to think they can do it. Yours truly, Dave Winer
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In the beginning, there was AM radio. And it was good.  Then came FM. It was better.  Then satellite radio arrived in its digital format. It not only sounded better but also offered more variety in listening options. That was really good.  Now there is HD Radio.
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Apple's digital music player becomes the latest amenity at swank hotels, and ups its status as a pop-culture icon. Photo: Preloaded iPod in your next hotel room?
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Compact speakers for personal music players have been around since the original Walkman. Now that mini-hard drive music machines can hold your entire collection, the product category is back with a vengeance...
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Reviewing iTunes 7 and the new line of iPods, David Pogue writes for the New York Times, you can&#146;t &#147;find a better online music store, or a free jukebox program as powerful and clean as iTunes. And you certainly won&#146;t find a music player that beats the new iPods in polish, capacity or even price. They come dazzlingly close to perfection.&#148;
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Starting with new Sansa e200 gadgets, Real is counting on consumers wanting to take a "music library" from one device to another
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New releases from 50 Cent, Animal Collective, Simian Mobile Disco and Cupid.
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Users of HD Radio devices will soon be able to 'tag' songs they hear for later purchase using iTunes.
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Guitar Hero groupies, get ready: A third entry in the musical franchise is on the way, and it will have a wireless controller!
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The digital music space is changing, with more songs and a growing number of places to download music legally. Realizing that the time was ripe to see how we were doing, I took some song recommendations and sat down to see what I could download.
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Tycho:   One of the questions during a a panel at PAX had to do with the italicised line at the end of each day's post.  They're almost always song lyrics, and back before we were paying for bandwidth (and before RIAA rape gangs were prowling the web) these lines used to link directly to the MP3.  I maintained the practice afterward because it's sort of like a song of the day, and I like the idea that someone might be struck by a strange turn of phrase and seek out a piece of music.  It also serves as a gauge of my mental state at the moment.  Today's song, for example, is Stan Rodgers' incredible live version of the sea shanty "Rolling Down To Old Maui," which Pandora kicked out after about a week of tuning the station.  I've listened to it about thirty times today.    The person who asked the question at the con complimented my musical tastes, and I accepted the compliment, but I'm almost always late to the scene.  I just bought Interpol's "Turn On The Bright Lights," for chrissakes.  I'm mostly lucky to know people who do have unique library.  I told him I would mention a few of my favorite bands on the site, but then I forgot.  Essentially, it's music that cool people were listening to a decade ago (where applicable).  I am a musical carrion bird.    He wanted me to list off a few bands, and I said I would last week, but then I forgot.  These are the first ten albums I could think of.    "Starless" by Shiner
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Flashy new discs and that old cozy sound have got the iPod generation giving LPs a spin
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The music player is supposed to be all about sharing and socializing. So where is everyone?