Echo is the only open-source music player I'll use, because it beautifully handles both on-device files and streaming service ...

My parents recently got the equipment for making digital copies of their old record albums (yay!!!!). They sent me a copy of one album, but they made two .wav files - one of each side. I'd like to ...

If you’ve ever wondered what the country song in The X-Files episode “Dreamland II” was called, it’s “Staring At the Stars.” Written by Dan Marfisi, the singer’s name is Glenn Jordan. At the beginning ...

Lauren Ancona wasn’t really paying attention to the “X-Files” episode she had on her TV on Monday night. Then she heard the song. It played as a character walked into a rural bar, a lilting country ...

Two days ago, Dan Marfisi, a longtime musician and songwriter in the L.A. area, received a text from a composer friend. “He wrote, ‘Did you write this song on The X-Files?’” Marfisi says. “He said, ...

Anna's Archive, a shadow library search engine, recently scraped Spotify to create a pirate archive containing 86 million songs and metadata for 256 million tracks.

The X-Files stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson virtually reunited with dozens of the beloved sci-fi series’ cast and crew to provide new lyrics for the show’s spooky theme song. The show’s ...

As AI-powered technology continues to develop, it seems that almost every task involved in being a musician or producer is in danger of being automated. AI tools can write lyrics, suggest chord ...