Swarm.fm combines Facebook and Spotify to give you personalized music recommendations. Swarm.fm is a new app for music streaming service Spotify. The app won first prize at Spotify’s Music Apps Hack Weekend back in February, and has now been integrated into the Spotify software. Swarm.

CloudDeck app for MAC, Linux, and PC allows you to find new and exciting SoundCloud music and stream it right from your desktop without a browser.

SoundCloud Downloader adds a download link to all Soundcloud songs so that you can download any song you want. SoundCloud Downloader is a handy userscript that adds a download link to any and all songs on Soundcloud.

Online streaming service suggests playlists based on your current mood or activity. The online radio music streaming market is competitive, with big players like Last.fm, Pandora and Spotify all providing fairly similar, free services.

One of the many things that record labels have said in the past is that because physical record labels have fallen, that means file-sharing is killing the industry.

You can add this to an ever growing and large list of times when copyright was used as a tool for censorship. Independent artist In-Flight Safety has been fighting to keep their legally uploaded videos on YouTube after major record label Universal Music Group used the DMCA to censor them.

The formerly must-have media player software quietly celebrates its 15th anniversary with a new mobile version of Winamp for Android while users reflect on how AOL mismanagement squandered its potential.

Universal Music is trying to convince anti-trust regulators that buying EMI does not create anti-competitive concerns. Critics argue that having 41% control of the music market (ala ‘super-label’) is cause for concern for competitiveness in the market.

Popular online music streaming service drops the $10 monthly fee for mobile streaming, and allows users to discover, save and enjoy an unlimited amount of music on the go for free and without ads! Spotify, the popular online music streaming service, landed on US shores from Europe last July, an

Recently, we received a tip about a company creating software that would actively monitor websites in search of anyone posting copyrighted material and alert copyright holders about possible royalty payments.

At ZeroPaid, we pride ourselves on trying to post the most accurate stories possible. That is why whenever we learn of a news story, we cross-reference with numerous other reliable sources to ensure that what we report is the most accurate story possible.

A list of music social networks that allow you to stream and share your favorite tracks.

It’s a verdict several years in the making. Now, the Supreme court may have put an end to one of two file-sharing cases to have ever made it through the court system without a settlement.

This is it. We’ve reached the end of our long series of what the file-sharing studies are really saying. This series started out strong and is going to end strong.

We are now on the final three studies in our series of file-sharing studies we are reviewing. If you can believe it, one study even touched on philosophy, psychology and ethics of the average file-sharer. So, we’ll, once again, get another interesting and unique look at file-sharing.

Chrome extension removes most of Pandora’s advertisements, allows users to customize parts of the layout, creates a Pandora music player desktop window for playback control, scrobbles music to Last.fm, and more.

Joel Tenenbaum, one of the first two file-sharers who took their fight with the RIAA to court has taken his case all the way up to the Supreme court. While his guilt is not legally in question, the amount he owes in damages certainly is.

We are now well into the final stretch of our long-running series of what file-sharing studies really have to say. In our fifth to last study of the series, we cover a study that found that people who download copyrighted material also purchased more music legally.

In the previous study we covered here on ZeroPaid, we saw an interesting point that lowering prices is, perhaps, the best way to attract customers as noted in Korea. That study wasn’t the only one conducted in that region.

Standalone program allows you to play, pause, advance, previous and open stored songs from your Google Play music library on your desktop without having to ever visit the full site.