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We want to help solve your digital music collection conundrums! Our series on Supercollectors continues with answers to your questions about digital music – from ripping CDs to storing MP3s. Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.FM and San Francisco-based music and technology writer Geeta Dayal join us to take your calls.

More than 24 apps emerged from a recent installment of Music Hack Day, an ongoing series that draws software-guru types to brainstorm and develop their ear-bending ideas over weekends of rapid-fire coding. Eliot Van Buskirk, editor in chief of the blog Evolver.fm, joins us to demonstrate a few of them.

Meet composer Emily Howell: she’s crafting original works of classical music that sound sharp and lively, if a little derivative. Some say her pieces sound like Bach or Liszt. The issue: Emily Howell is a computer-based algorithm, designed by composer David Cope. He joins us to talk about Emily Howell’s latest album, From Darkness, Light.

Google is poised to become a major player in the music industry. But the company with the “don’t be evil” motto is drawing criticism for its relationship with major labels and copyright detectives. Jon Healey of the Los Angeles Times explains Google’s rapid expansion into music. Then, writer Maura Johnston ...

These days it takes a little more effort to sell an entire album of music. Artists are offering incentives like outdated music formats (8-track tapes, cassettes), T-shirts, flash memory drives, and even collectors’ soup cans. Today, Soundcheck delves into this phenomenon with Eliot Van Buskirk of Wired.com.

This week, Muzak, the company that pioneered smooth versions of your favorite hits in elevators, filed for bankruptcy protection. Sirius XM Radio began preparing its own bankruptcy filing. With both companies awash in such enormous debt, we examine what went wrong and what may be next. Joining us are Julian ...

Even as record sales continued to plummet in 2008, the Internet was a hub of innovation for musicians and their fans. Today Eliot Van Buskirk of Wired.com discusses the most important online music stories from 2008.

View Eliot Van Buskirk's list

At many pop concerts, the audience is so busy filming and recording the experience with their cell phones, they forget to pay attention to the music. Today, a "Soundcheck Smackdown" debate over whether cell phones are enhancing or ruining concerts. We're joined by Thor Christensen, pop music critic for the ...

Some of the music industry's biggest names are involved in blockbuster deals: Jay-Z and Live Nation, MySpace and three music majors, and EMI and Google. You might think upheaval inside the music industry doesn't affect you, but think again. First, Eliot van Buskirk of Wired.com explains the impact on music ...

Wired magazine columnist Eliot Van Buskirk shares the business and technology developments that drove the music industry in 2007.

Eliot Van Buskirk's top stories of 2007 (with help from readers of his blog, Listening Post)

- Radiohead's "In Rainbows" release

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MTV is attempting to shake up its Video Music Awards telecast this Sunday. But the real creativity in music videos is taking place online. We'll hear how social-networking sites and digital tools have altered the creation, distribution, and raison d’être of music videos. We talk with Wired magazine columnist Eliot ...

Prince is giving away free copies of his new album "Planet Earth" in the Mail on Sunday newspaper and to fans who attend the 21 live shows he’s in London next month. The move has infuriated British retailers, and Sony/BMG is refusing to distribute "Planet Earth" in the UK. We’ll ...