Quality books written about metal used to be a rarity on store shelves. Fortunately, the shortage has abated in recent years, buyoed by Keith Richards's tell-all autobiography.
Using what they call 'game-powered machine learning', the team says music lovers would be able to search every song on the web with a simple text search using key words like 'funky' or 'spooky electronica'.
The great debate on whether physical media is dead in the music industry rages on, as Apple's iTunes continues to put a huge dent in the physical CD and traditional music sales market.
As many as a quarter of today's teens could start losing their hearing in their thirties, say Tel Aviv University researchers studying the effects of MP3 players.
It's a couple of weeks late, but Apple's launched its iTunes match service, allowing users to add high-quality versions of the music they've ripped from CDs.
The public hasn't really been into music CDs for quite some time, but now it's reportedly official. Yes, major record labels will finally cease production of CDs next year.
British festival-goers this summer no longer need to worry about charging their phones - as long, that is, as they're not too bothered about their eardrums either.
Android has thus far contented itself with residing on smartphone and tablet devices. But Google wants to shake up the status quo and usher in a new age of Android connectivity.
Live from the Google IO conference, the company has officially embarked on a new frontier in entertainment, launching movie rentals in the Android Marketplace and the long anticipated Google Music.
