Posts Tagged ‘music’
Monday, October 27th, 2008
The firm, Paragon Media Strategies, reports that 14- to 24-year-olds mostly say their radio listening has increased over the last year or two, while they said the opposite last year. [MORE]
Tags: arbitron, ipod, listening, mp3, music, paragon, radio
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
After a 19-month battle over Internet radio royalties, a truce between record labels and webcasters is finally in sight that would allow Internet radio start-ups to eke out an existence for at least a little while longer. [MORE]
Tags: internet, labels, music, radio, royalties, stream, streaming
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
MySpace Music continues to sign key music deals – today they announced the addition of the no. 2 independent music aggregator, IODA, to the platform. Orchard, the no. 1 indie aggregator, has been on board since the launch. [MORE]
Tags: independent, labels, music, myspace, online, stream, streaming
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
What good is an endless jukebox in the sky if you can only listen to it while you are sitting in front of your computer? [MORE]
Tags: android, imeem, jukebox, mobile, music, stream, streaming
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Steve Jobs decreed the price of digital music to be 99 cents per download over five years ago, but competing with free has been difficult for Apple and others that have followed in its footsteps. Jobs himself admitted that only three percent of the music on iPods was purchased from the iTunes music store. [MORE]
Tags: download, ipod, itunes, lala, mp3, music
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
While the music industry struggles to sell CDs, Microsoft revealed yesterday that gamers purchase around 3.8 million Guitar Hero and Rock Band downloads per month via their XBox Live network. [MORE]
Tags: cds, downloads, games, guitar hero, music, playstation, rock band, sales, xbox
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Internet radio is an excellent way to discover new music, but, as the name implies, you need an Internet connection. The folks over at Slacker have an Internet radio service which you can enjoy without a constant Internet connection. [MORE]
Tags: g2, internet, music, online, radio, slaker, stream, streaming
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Pandora founder Tim Westergren announced on the company’s blog Thursday that he is reducing the workforce by 20 employees. The layoffs will shrink Pandora’s staff of 140 employees to 120. [MORE]
Tags: cuts, economy, layoffs, mobile, music, online, pandora, radio
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Chris Anderson’s long tail theory posits that technology has enabled companies to earn significant revenue by selling seemingly insignificant amounts of lots of lesser-known media, in addition to the tried and true method of selling millions of copies of a few hits. While there’s plenty of evidence to support his theory in the music world, attendees of the conference heard one executive claim that the long tail is dead, insofar as mobile music goes. [MORE]
Tags: download, iphone, long tail, mobile, music, purchase
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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
Pioneer’s XMp3, which begins shipping today, not only plays satellite radio; it also records up to five stations at once. The player also has a 30-minute buffer to rewind and fast forward through live shows. It’s essentially a TiVo for satellite radio. [MORE]
Tags: download, mp3, music, pioneer, radio, record, satellite, tivo, xmp3
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