It’s a good time to add some digital music to your collection. Google and Amazon are offering thousands of albums for $5 or less. Google Music is holding a “blowout sale” on millions of MP3s and albums in the Android Market, while Amazon is running a “Fuel your Kindle Fire” sale with over a thousand albums selling for $5. I…

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Google Music is now out of beta, and available for anyone in the US to use without an invitation. Google has also announced that the basic service will remain free. That means you can upload as many as 20,000 songs to the Google Music website and stream them to any computer or mobile with a supported web browser, or stream…

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Grooveshark has released an update to its webOS app, adding support for the HP TouchPad. The new app is optimized for the discontinued tablet’s 9.7 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel display and features tools for finding songs, adding them to a playlist, accessing saved lists, and listening to music from your TouchPad. Like Grooveshark’s mobile apps for Android, Symbian, and…

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The Amazon Kindle Fire’s relatively low $200 price tag may be partially due to Amazon’s hopes that customers will buy eBooks, music, and movies from Amazon to help shore up the bottom line. But it looks like Kindle Fire users won’t have to use Amazon’s digital store to get their digital media fix. Earlier this week Amazon announced that Netflix, Pandora,…

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Rdio has stepped up its game in the online music service’s battle with Spotify, MOG, and Rhapsody. Rdio now lets users sign up for a free account and listen to a limited number of songs on-demand for free each month. Spotify offers a similar free service tier. But unlike Spotify, Rdio won’t interrupt the music after every few songs to…

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Microsoft’s Zune Pass service lets subscribers listen to 14 million songs on-demand for a monthly fee. Right now you can also download and save up to 10 of those songs each month for no additional charge. It’s sort of like buying an album every month and getting a free on-demand radio service for your PC, Zune media player, or Windows…

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Online music streaming service Pandora launched a major update today. First, you can now listen to as much music as you want for free. There used to be a 40 hour per month cap on the ad-supported service. Second, the Pandora website has received an HTML5 makeover. It’s much faster and more attractive than the old Flash-based user interface. The…

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Google Music Beta allows you to upload your music to the cloud and stream it to an Android phone or tablet or nearly any computer with a web browser. While in beta, the service allows anyone to store as many as 20,000 songs online. But up until recently the only way to upload your music was to install an app…

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Google started sending out beta invites for Google Music shortly after unveiling the service earlier this month. But initially the invites were only going to attendees of the Google I/O conference and Motorola XOOM users. Now Engadget reports that Google has begun sending out invitations to people who don’t fall into either of those categories. I got an invite a…

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Google has launched a new music service called Music Beta by Google. It allows users to upload their music collection to the web and stream songs over the internet to a computer or Android phone or tablet. The service is invite-only for now, but you can request an invitation and music.google.com. The service is also US-only for now, and there’s…

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Apple may have the industry-leading music iTunes music store for its tablets, media players, and smartphones, but Research in Motion has signed a deal with 7digital that will provide BlackBerry PlayBook users to purchase music from the tablet. 7digital offers 13 million songs. They’re be available as 320kbps high quality DRM-free MP3 files.  Prices range from around $0.77 per track…

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Sony has teamed up with music labels Universal, EMI, and Warner to create a new streaming music service called MusicUnlimited powered by Qriocity. The service is already available in parts of Europe including the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. It will soon launch in the US, Australia, and New Zealand as well. Music Unlimited represents an attempt by Sony…

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