Insert Coin: Air Guitar Move for iPhone (video)

In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you’d like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with “Insert Coin” as the subject line. We’re not sure proper air guitarists would ever consider adding a bonafide pick to their cherished imaginary pastime, but what if a petite plastic plectrum could turn those strokes into stringed acoustics that more than just you can hear?

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Spotify signs UMG, only Warner stands in the way of US invasion?

Six months ago, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek couldn’t tell us when his subscription streaming music service might launch in the United States, and that won’t change today, but apparently there’s not much left keeping $10 unlimited monthly music away. All Things D reports that Spotify has signed Universal Music Group to a US distribution deal, the third of the four largest labels to agree, and anonymous sources say the last remaining holdout, Warner Music, may also soon cave. Mind you, one of Spotify’s most intriguing new features just got shown up by iTunes in the Cloud , but when it comes to extra competition and consumer choice, we won’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

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Steve Jobs talks iCloud, iOS 5, OS X Lion and more at WWDC, liveblog starts at 10AM PT on June 6th!

Do you love music ? Do you love it in the cloud?

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Steve Jobs talks iCloud, iOS 5, OS X Lion and more at WWDC, liveblog starts at 10AM PT on June 6th!

Slacker intros Radio Plus subscription service, makes Premium Radio look like Basic Radio

Internet radio provider Slacker is bulldozing the thin line dividing itself from subscription-based music services today, with the launch of Radio Plus. The new pricing tier joins the existing gratis Basic Radio and ad-free Premium Radio plans, adding an all-you-can-eat music model akin to services like Rhapsody and Rdio . Subscribers who shell out $9.99 a month receive all of the features of the $4.99 Premium Radio users, plus unlimited access to eight million songs, letting them listen to what they want, when the want, and generally play god with the site’s existing radio services

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What stalled negotiations between Google and the music industry? (Hint: money)

It’s no secret that negotiations between Google and the recording industry haven’t been going very well.

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Google Music Beta versus the titans of the streaming music space: a chart

It feels like just yesterday we charted the streaming music landscape , but it’s already changed in a big way — Google is muscling in on the likes of Rhapsody, Pandora and particularly Amazon with its Google Music Beta . Being able to take 20,000 of your personal tunes, stream them over the web and cache them locally on your device isn’t functionality to sneeze at, so it’s time we updated our charts.

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Otomata sequencer creates generative music for the melodically challenged (video)

It won’t bring you the success or adoration that Brian Eno’s enjoyed, but the Otomata sequencer could have you making noise like the Roxy Music alum in seconds. Way back in 1996, Eno espoused the idea of generative music, which is a non-repetitive form of music created, in this case, anyway, by a piece of software.

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Sprint Music Plus app gives users yet another mobile jam portal… if you’re cool with RealNetworks

Tired of waiting for Google Music ? How tired?

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Sprint Music Plus app gives users yet another mobile jam portal… if you’re cool with RealNetworks

Google snags PushLife, will probably use it to push music to your Android phone

At last year’s Google I/O we were tantalizingly teased with the idea of music streaming to our mobile devices. Since then, there have been hints and leaks , but nothing official from Google on when or how this new service would be rolled out.

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Novation Twitch touchstrip DJ controller makes the scene at Musik Messe 2011 (video)

We’re not professional musicians by a long shot, but when we do get a chance to break away from the relentless torrent of cellphones and tablets, nothing quite hits the spot like a little music appreciation. Of course, when done Engadget-style this usually means a gadget of some sort — and we’d be lying if we didn’t say that Novation’s newest didn’t whet our appetites for some after-hours beatmatching.

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Novation Twitch touchstrip DJ controller makes the scene at Musik Messe 2011 (video)

Location-aware album gives Washington DC dynamically modified soundtrack

Musical duo Bluebrain has taken the guesswork out of listening to music — their latest album dictates where you can listen to it, what songs it plays, and when it plays them. Take that , playlists ! The album, titled The National Mall , will be available only as an iPhone app and the band is calling it the first location-aware album. The app…

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Native Instruments rolls out Traktor 2, Maschine 1.6 update

There isn’t any hardware that will make you a better (or hell, a good) DJ, although we always seem to forget this whenever we see one of Native Instruments’ invariably mind-blowing product demos.

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Music industry will force licenses on Amazon Cloud Player—or else

Amazon’s decision to launch its new Cloud Player without securing additional music licenses has been described as a “bold move” by many observers. It takes serious guts

How to Track the Future of the Music Industry

There is simply nothing like Twitter for being a fly on the wall. People sit at work and tweet about what they’re doing.

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Music artists, labels create enhanced albums for iPad

Launched with iTunes 9, iTunes LP would let record labels include extra content such as liner notes, expanded artwork and lyrics in albums sold on iTunes. The feature never took off, but the concept of adding value to an album using interactive digital content has not died.

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A day with Deadmau5: LEDs, Super Mario, and techno

Deadmau5 (also known as Joel Zimmerman) is one of the largest names in the electronic and house music scene — and he also happens to be a major tech head. Recently, the Canadian producer added some impressive new gear to his productions, in the form of a massive LED-covered cube and signature mau5head (that’s pronounced “mouse-head” in case you couldn’t guess). Read along after the break for an exclusive look at exactly what’s going on inside the mind of Deadmau5 — both literally and figuratively

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Is Amazon’s Cloud Locker Really an Innovation?

Early today, Amazon launched a suite of music products that allow users to store their tracks online and them stream them over the Web or to any Android device courtesy of the Amazon MP3 mobile application. The launch has the tech world abuzz, not only because Amazon beat Apple and Google to the punch, both of whom are reportedly working on digital lockers of their own, but because Amazon hasn’t even received the record labels’ permission to host these tracks on its servers as of yet. But is Amazon’s cloud-based music storage service really all that innovative?

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Amazon’s New ‘Cloud Drive’: Your Music, Everywhere You Go

Apple and Google are both rumored to be working on music streaming services, but the first real competitor to enter the streaming music battle is Amazon.com. The company has announced Amazon Cloud Drive, a web-based backup service where you can store your documents, photos music and other files.

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"Psycho-acoustic" Beatles recordings cost BlueBeat $950,000

BlueBeat.com , the company that tried to sell “remastered” Beatles tracks online before they became officially available, has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by three music labels. The move comes more than a year after a federal judge issued a restraining order and then an injunction against the company, and does not yet include any attorney’s fees or other damages involved in the lawsuit. The case dates back to 2009, before the (now infamous) Beatles remasters were actually authorized to be sold online.

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Next Version of iOS, Mac OS to be Revealed at WWDC in June

Apple has announced it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 6-10 at Moscone West in San Francisco. During the five-day event, Apple will introduce the next versions of both its desktop and mobile operating systems, Mac OS and iOS, respectively. It will also offer app demonstrations and over 100 technical sessions intended for mobile developers.

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