They included everyone from videogame developer Sega to a one-man developer who turned the iPhone into a touch-activated music machine.
And while Apple got its start as a computer company, Jobs has slowly shifted the company into consumer electronics, with the iPod displacing Sony's Walkman as the world's favorite personal music machine.
Music scholar and composer David Cope has built a machine which creates music of such profound artistic quality that it can even fool the experts.
Probably not, but a group of computer scientists and music scholars have built a machine that can do just that.
An employee had used that machine to download music lyrics from a Web site that Scob had infected.
For now musicians can still take refuge in the knowledge that it still requires their own personal feelings and talent to interpret the machine's music and bring it alive.
There seems to be a grave worry here that 2.5 seconds of downtime between beach volleyball points would put 15, 000 people to sleep, so there's been a never-ending blast of music Miami Sound Machine, Maroon 5, Usher, Yakety Sax (better known as the theme to "The Benny Hill Show").
Once teams of hard-working Japanese salesmen had prised open American and European markets in the 1970s, Western consumers were quickly won over by Japanese quality, design and price, whether in fuel-efficient cars or snazzy electronic gizmos, such as the Sony Walkman (for readers under 30: a portable machine that played music from tapes) or the Nintendo DS (for readers over 30: a gadget for playing video games).
As long as header information is properly encoded on individual MP3s (often not the case if you are trading tunes on Napster), the machine will automatically file music so you can retrieve it by artist, genre and album name.
Delivering a sound that resonates with the presence and power of live music, the Hanwell is a carefully crafted machine, designed to attain that trademark Marshall tone.
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The singer, known for hits like Living Doll, will play three nights at the venue as part of his Time Machine tour, celebrating 50 years in music.
Because it has a 6-gigabyte hard drive, most music collectors would be hard-pressed to even come close to exhausting the machine's capacity.
"It was like stepping into a time machine, everything was like out of the 1950s, including the music you heard and the hair styles of the stewardesses on the plane, " he said.
Join us this week as WorldBeat checks in with Lars Ulrich of Metallica, Chuck D. and Chapman, plus Slipknot, Rage Against the Machine and Stone Temple Pilots to get their take on new digital music technologies.
You put music on your iPod from whatever age you want to return to, and voila, instant time machine.
"Rage Against the Machine is not going to be down with that, " said Lorraine Ali, pop music editor at the Los Angeles Times.
In order to create music on the Oram, a composer painted waveforms directly onto 35mm film strips which were fed into the machine.
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Because a new tablet hardwired with 20, 000 instantly streaming shows, on-demand television, music and movies, a massive e-book marketplace and a history of buyer confidence looks like a very formidable machine.
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