streaming music

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This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is coming to us from Katie, who is totally down with the stream.

The radio stream.

Not long ago, listening to music meant one of two things: Watching it live onstage or firing up the record player and arranging your speakers for optimum sound.

But the digital age has enabled music, music information and its culture to thrive nearly everywhere. There’s no shortage of festivals, streaming music, online forums and magazines to give audiophiles their fix.

The competition may be nabbing most of the headlines

Why risk downloading a song and facing jail time, when you can now take your streaming music service with you wherever you go thanks to the cloud?

Sony didn't make a big to do about the arrival of its Music Unlimited service on Android -- perhaps it's the fact that the market for streaming music on mobile devices is getting a bit crowded these days, with recent arrivals from

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 k

Apple has just announced its long-awaited cloud-based music service: iTunes in the Cloud.

No matter how large your record collection is, there'll always be days when you're sick and tired of everything you own.

There's no deal yet, but Bloomberg and All Things Digital are reporting "confirmed" buyouts talks between Apple and music-streaming service Lala.

If it goes down, the deal would potentially bring free music streaming to Apple's iTunes empire, but we're assuming Steve's less interested in integrating Lala's current service than he is in its talent, back-end technology, and content licensing deals.