Archive for September, 2008
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Forget buying an album on a USB stick, SanDisk just convinced the big labels to release (DRM free, thankfully) music on a 1 GB 15mm x 11mm x 1mm microSD card. And then they convinced Best Buy and Walmart to sell these things. [MORE]
Tags: drm, format, industry, labels, microSD, music, sandisk
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Searching for music is one thing, but have you ever wanted to search for an artist and play their songs without needing to visit other sites? [MORE]
Tags: download, listen, music, playback, rhapsody, search, yahoo
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
The owner of the world’s largest music company is predicting a return to growth in the industry as new ways of making money from legal digital downloading come to fruition. [MORE]
Tags: apple, downloading, industry, mobile, music, profit, record labels, universal
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
When Ludacris’ manager wanted to create buzz for his client’s upcoming CD, he went directly to YouTube.com. But instead of releasing a flashy video for Ludacris’ song “Let’s Stay Together,” Chaka Zulu just uploaded the track directly to the site with a just picture of the rapper as accompaniment. [MORE]
Source: CNN
Tags: listen, music, new, streaming, youtube
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
It sure looks like MySpace is spending a ton of cash on next week’s launch of the MySpace joint music venture with the major labels. [MORE]
Tags: billboards, major labels, music, myspace, streaming
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Seattle based iLike just expanded their recent streaming music deal with Rhapsody to allow any website or web application to add streaming music to their sites. [MORE]
Tags: download, ilike, music, online, rhapsody, social, streaming
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
The company’s customized and programmable radio stations feature a healthy catalog of over two million songs that the company licenses directly from labels and publishers without putting up with SoundExchange’s government-mandated royalty rates. [MORE]
Tags: interactive, mobile, music, portable, radio, riaa, slick slacker g2, soundexchange
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Researchers are developing intelligent radios that can sense their surroundings and adjust their mode of operation accordingly. [MORE]
Tags: emergency, radio, technology, wireless
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
The buzz is mounting, at least for those who care about MySpace. Granted, that’s a sizable audience, but one could argue that iTunes’ audience is even larger, and entrenched to boot. So is Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace music venture, which could be launched this week, anything to buzz about? [MORE]
Tags: download, itunes, mcdonalds, music, myspace, network, social, toyota
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
On the streaming-music front in particular, the sad reality is that advertising revenue isn’t, and may never be, there to fully support the music industry’s wishful-thinking profit margins. [MORE]
Tags: download, fees, industry, mp3, music, online, radio, revenue, riaa, streaming
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