There’s a great article by Suzanne Vega today at the New York Times. 
In it, Vega talks about her song Tom’s Diner getting remixed, illegally, by DNA:
We were backstage at the Arsenio Hall show when my manager told me that some boys calling themselves DNA, in England — Bath, to be specific — had taken “Tom’s [...]

Techspansion has introduced AudialHub — an inexpensive Mac app designed to convert dozens of different audio formats (and even the audio tracks from video files) to AAC, MP3, WMA, WAV and Apple Lossless formats, with the standard metadata tags in most formats converted and passed on to the finished file.
Nearly every aspect of the decoding [...]

Amazon.com today announced it will launch a digital music store later this year offering millions of songs in the DRM-free MP3 format from more than 12,000 record labels, including EMI. Every song and album in the Amazon.com digital music store will be available exclusively in the MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM) software.Amazon’s announcement [...]

QRS Music Technologies has introduced a high-tech version of Gulbransen Digital Hymnal.
The Digital Hymnal DH200 uses CompactFlash card technology, letting you download standard MIDI files and MP3 files to expand the unit’s vast software library capabilities.In addition to CompactFlash technology, the new DH200 has an upgradeable operating system.
The Hymnal plays thousands of hymns, choruses and [...]