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Posts tagged with "music"
in Technology
Are DAB radio sets still needed?
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Digital listening continues to grow, but DAB radios are not following the same trend. With the rise of smart speakers, do we still need a separate radio set?
in Technology
What if we lost access to digital media libraries?
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Many of us rely on digital libraries for our media in this day and age, but what about the concept of ‘ownership’? What happens if we lose access?
in Money
Scam alert: Spotify subscription phishing email
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Your Spotify subscription hasn’t been ‘paused’ – this fake email is actually after access to your bank details. Have you received it? Here’s what it looks like.
in Technology
Are you coping without a headphone jack?
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It’s been three years since Apple got rid of the standard headphone jack on its iPhones. Now other manufacturers are following suit, are you coping without it?
in Technology
Does vinyl really sound better?
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Can a vinyl’s warm, natural sound be beaten? We listened to the Beatles’ recently remastered White Album to find out.
Festival frustration: have you suffered a last-minute cancellation?
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Organisers of the Wireless Festival knew ‘for months’ that one of its headline acts wasn’t going to make the event last weekend. Have you ever suffered a last-minute artist cancellation?
in Shopping
How much do you spend on music?
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Spotify is, without doubt, one of the most successful, convenient innovations of modern times. Access to all the music is great – but is its £120-per-year subscription cost-effective? (more…)
Trading Standards: cleaning up the secondary ticketing market
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Too many music fans are forced to use secondary ticket sites to get gig tickets, with no real picture of who they’re buying them from. Trading Standards wants to know if this has happened to you as it works to clean up the market.
Buying resale tickets – ensuring that you’re protected
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The Competition and Markets Authority is working to ensure fans who buy secondary tickets aren’t left out in the cold. But event organisers have a role to play too – and the regulator wants to hear your views on what that role should be…
Can the regulator clean up the ticket resale market?
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The regulator has announced it’s taking enforcement action against ticketing companies who aren’t following the rules. But will this finally fix the ticket resale market for genuine fans?
Have resale tickets ever shut you out?
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Next weekend, Glasgow will host over 15,000 music fans at BBC 6 Music Festival – but how many are at risk of being turned away on the night?
(more on secondary ticketing
in Technology
Why should you always download content from a genuine site?
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Marianne Grant is from the ‘Get it Right from a Genuine Site’ campaign, which is taking a whole new approach to reducing online copyright infringement and ensuring safe downloads. (more on legally downloading content…)
in Technology
Look with your eyes, not with your iPhone
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A great photo or video clip can capture a special moment, but it might be at the expense of the audience members around you. Should you be able to record and photograph at concerts and other live events?
(more about phones at concerts…)