The portable music revolution has only been with us for a few years, but we may already be on the cusp of the another paradigm shift: With smartphones becoming commoditized — and with so many excellent music apps being designed for them — it’s becoming viable to leave your MP3 player at home and tune into the cloud. [MORE]

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The device itself comes with a Billboard top tracks card that offers seven playlists–Alternative, Contemporary, Country, R&B/Hip-Hop, Rock, Workout, and Chillout–and will sell for $99.99. [MORE]

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While the stock market and music sales continue to decline, radio listening is reportedly on the rise. [MORE]

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The firm, Paragon Media Strategies, reports that 14- to 24-year-olds mostly say their radio listening has increased over the last year or two, while they said the opposite last year. [MORE]

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Steve Jobs decreed the price of digital music to be 99 cents per download over five years ago, but competing with free has been difficult for Apple and others that have followed in its footsteps. Jobs himself admitted that only three percent of the music on iPods was purchased from the iTunes music store. [MORE]

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Pioneer’s XMp3, which begins shipping today, not only plays satellite radio; it also records up to five stations at once. The player also has a 30-minute buffer to rewind and fast forward through live shows. It’s essentially a TiVo for satellite radio. [MORE]

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Apple has threatened to shut down the iTunes music store if an obscure three-person board appointed by the Librarian of Congress increase the royalties paid to publishers and songwriters by six cents per song. [MORE]

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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch will officially take on Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Thursday. [MORE]

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On the streaming-music front in particular, the sad reality is that advertising revenue isn’t, and may never be, there to fully support the music industry’s wishful-thinking profit margins. [MORE]

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Apple arrived fashionably late to the music-recommendation party Tuesday with a new version of iTunes that suggests songs that listeners might like to buy from Apple’s online store. [MORE]

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