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Songness Tests Your Hit Potential
New music discovery site Songness attempts to predict how users will rate a song.
Approaching the Zettabyte Era [Visual Networking Index] - Cisco Systems
"Approaching the Zettabyte Era" is part of the Cisco Visual Networking Index, an ongoing initiative to track and forecast the impact of visual networking applications.
Universal, Sky to Offer Music Subscription Plan
Universal Music Group (UK and Ireland) and British Sky Broadcasting, the satellite television operator that also offers broadband Internet access, will launch by the end of the year an unnamed venture that will offer music subscriptions to Sky customers
Digital Media Insider Podcast: One Glorious Note
In many ways, music technology has become a silly numbers game. Today's digital instruments are sold on gigabytes of samples, kilohertz of frequency response, and ever-rising bit depth, polyphony, and even more esoteric specs.
Record Labels Are Not Venture Capitalists
Venture firms and record companies invest their time and money into a third party with the intent of making a (large) return on their investment. However, there are more differences in their traditional approaches to investing than similarities.
Napster: Worth More Dead Than Alive?
Its stock? How does a 95 percent nosedive in the last six years grab you?
The Day the Music Dies
This fall customers of the now-defunct MSN Music Store, Microsoft's abortive attempt to compete with iTunes, will be in for a nasty surprise: They will no longer be able to transfer their music to new computers.
Techdirt: EU Plans To Extend Copyright; Turns Copyright System Into Welfare For Musicians
Just as we feared, the EU has now approved copyright extension of performance royalties from 50 years to 95 years. This is basically an approval to steal from the public.
Radiohead "House of Cards" and Creative Commons
Exciting for Creative Commons is that the data (although not the music) used to produce this music video are being made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License on the Google Code site
New music markets to trounce CD sales
AS CD SALES PLUNGE, the mobile device music market soars according to a new report by research outfit Emarketer which claims that music on mobile devices will be a $7.3 billion industry by 2011
NARM Calls For Fixed Release Dates
NARM has issued a strong call for common release dates across digital and physical retailers in an attempt to protect its core brick and mortar membership. [Idiots - Dubber]
New Music Strategies: How TPM can lead to DRM
Very interesting article from Bill Thompson about how TPMs - Trusted Platform Modules - which are aimed at making your computer more secure from viruses and theft at a hardware level - may end up restricting what we can do with the media on our PC.
Find a Place to Crash, That's Better Than the Van
If you recall services like Couchswap, then you'll appreciate a new, similar service called Better Than the Van. It's a niche "couch swap" search engine that's designed for band members on tour.
Weezer write song online with fans
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has written a new song, 'Turnin' Up The Radio'', with the help of fans
How to Optimize Your AdSense Performance
If you're going to place ads on the internet using Google's AdWords system, here are some good beginners tips.
Warner Bros. LP+CD Bundle a Clever Twist
he new album by the reunited early '70s band that features Tom Petty, Warner Bros. has released two versions. The CD package will contain an album remastered for the "realities of the marketplace," which means it has the sort of loud, compressed sound tha
UK Gov't Tells ISPs They Need To Play Copyright Cops For Record Labels
Chalk another one up for the entertainment industry lobby, effectively getting governments to protect an obsolete business model once again.
The Shins set to self-release next album
After three albums released through Sub Pop, The Shins are going out on their own to put out their fourth LP.
Ping.fm
Update all of your social networks at once!
Illegal downloads: the solution
Young people are prepared to pay for the music they love - but only if offered the services they want. Here's how the industry can change
EMI Grabs Priceless BBC Archives; Two-Way Deal
The RIAA has quietly dropped a two-year file-swapping lawsuit, a development that intensifies questions related to its methods for identifying and prosecuting individual file-sharer
RIAA Quietly Drops a Suit; "Making Available" Questions Linger
The RIAA has quietly dropped a two-year file-swapping lawsuit, a development that intensifies questions related to its methods for identifying and prosecuting individual file-sharer
Canada to get tough on digital piracy
Legislation introduced in Canadian Parliament on Thursday would fine consumers about $500 in Canadian dollars for owning bootleg copies of digital music and up to $20,000 for posting copyrighted music to the Internet or giving away an iPod with music on i
Cross your fingers - Qtrax is launching again
"The world's first free and legal P2P music download network," is scheduled to start offering downloads. Their launch in January was unique for an online music service. It featured a great deal of hype and an ad-supported client, but not a single song.
10 Best Practices of Online Music Promotion
A good start.
New AC/DC Album To Be Wal-Mart Exclusive
AC/DC's next studio album will be exclusively sold at Wal-Mart stores in the United State
Spiralfrog.com to offer downloads from EMI artists
SpiralFrog Inc., which operates an ad-supported, free music and video download Web site, said Monday it will soon begin offering content from Coldplay, Keith Urban and other recording artists as part of a new licensing deal with EMI Music.
Some kind of online subscription model
Metallica have embraced the internet - and to celebrate they're selling $125 lithographs
EMI says yes to music on the go
EMI has opened up its catalogue to the airport market by allowing music from its artists to be sold in MEDIAnywhere's download kiosks
Woolies abandons CD singles
Woolworths is to stop selling CD singles from August, as it believes consumers now prefer single track downloads.
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