Style recycling is a common (and beloved!) way to copy music. As Amy Winehouse’s producer, Mark Ronson (right) used the sound of 1960s Motown. Illustration: Mike McQuade and Photos by Phillip ...

Your computer hard drive crashed and now all your precious music is trapped on that little white iPod of yours. Fear not: you can copy music from an iPod back to a computer, even if Apple won't tell ...

It’s happened to the best of us: a hard drive crash takes our precious iTunes library down to Davy Jones’ Locker, and we either don’t have backups, or our backups are corrupted or out of date. If ...

Tripp said he had been meeting with government representatives to push for consumers to be able to privately copy their own purchased music and for the songwriters and music creators to get "fair ...

The growing buzz over copy-protected CDs may be causing some consumers to hear double. For several weeks, news that record companies have quietly been selling copy-protected compact discs in stores ...

Like the title says. I've got a CD, and a CD burner. I want to copy the CD. I don't want to import the music in iTunes and burn from there, as the CD won't be recognized as the original (in song title ...

When you by a new CD and slip it into your computer’s optical drive to rip it, iTunes automatically queries an Internet-based database to try and guess the album’s name, artist, and the names of its ...