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“Users of Spotify’s free ad-supported service with La Roux on their playlists got a shock today – they can’t now play any of the tracks from her debut album ‘La Roux’.

“When you try, a message is displayed saying ‘This is a Spotify Premium exclusive. It will later be made available in Spotify Free”. We’ve seen this for pre-release album streams in the past, but not for a record that’s been out for several months.

Music Ally | Blog Archive » La Roux album blocked on Spotify’s free service.

“Digital music download subscription service eMusic has added the Warner Music Group family of labels to its offering in the US. The agreement includes Atlantic Records, Rhino Records and Warner Bros. Records as well as indies distributed through WMG’s ADA. Sony signed with eMusic last year, but thus far Unive rsal and EMI have not.”

eMusic Adds Warner Music Group To Catalog – hypebot.

The Boxee Beta is officially out.

The Beta is available for Mac, Windows and Ubuntu (including 64bit). The version is still not available for Apple TV, yet, but Boxee is working with the atv-creator community, and “look forward to having news on this front”.

The Beta has already been tested by tens of thousands of early access users on all different platforms. Hundreds of bugs have been addressed or noted and the developers are working to resolve these.

“We feel the version deserves the upgrade from Alpha grade to Beta grade, and we’re going to spend the next year improving it, so we can release 1.0 at CES next year,” they said.

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Apple has at last fully -enabled Web browser-based song previews of tracks offered for sale via iTunes.

Apple introduced iTunes Preview in November 2009. However, while you could review song listings using a browser, you were unable to listen to the songs without sparking up iTunes.

This has now changed. Apple is now offering browser-based song previews (30 seconds) using Quicktime to furnish tracks encoded at 44.1 AAC 300+ kbits/second. If you like a track you can then hit the button to purchase it through the Apple music service. Read the rest of this entry »