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Seen that? - Google's touch reaches digital music

Filed in archive Best of on April 24, 2010

Google's touch reaches digital music Digital Music - The Future

Seen that? - Google's touch reaches digital music
Emmis Communications, the 9th largest US radio network group is installing ad-insertion technology from dMarc, which Google recently bought for $1.2 billion. More on the technology: "[dMarc] RevenueSuite works directly through each radio station's digital automation systems to automatically insert paid commercials into open and unsold slots, thus maximizing the stations' sell-through and revenue capability. As a ready-to-operate service with minimal operational impact, RevenueSuite updates the traffic log, distributes pre-encoded creative, and generates real-time affidavits for [...] Read More


Digital music doldrums - Long-term change Digital Music - The Future

This article is one in a series examining the Pali Capital report that showed paid music download growth is slowing. Long-term change The long-term message is that the industry's problems can no longer be obscured by digital. Does this spell doom for music? It depends on your definition of music. Independent artists are thriving through the Internet and P2P. Big music though is another story. While the industry falsely blames others [...] Read More


2005: record year for digital music Digital Music - The Future

2005 was a record year for digital music. At the same time P2P use continues to grow. Christmas was a fabulous week. 20 million Tracks were sold in the last week of the year, three times the previous year. This is compared to P2P where 250 songs are downloaded in a week. Accordingly to the article: "If the market can retain volume gain as it did last year, the numbers [...] Read More


Google's CIO to head EMI Digital The CIO Weblog

CNET news is reporting that current Google CIO Douglas Merrill is leaving the company to take the helm at music industry giant EMI's digital unit. It hasn't been so long since February's interview where Merrill claimed to have "the best CIO job in the world" so you have to wonder if the position went downhill that fast or he decided he didn't want to be a CIO. Or, more likely, EMI [...] Read More


Digital music, the next generation: MP3Tunes+Beamer An Apple Beater? P2P File Sharing

+ > ? Michael Robertson has unveiled his master plan. If Apple is going to be beat, it is not through YAOMS (Yet Another Online Music Store), a relic of the old days when records were vinyl, retail meant stores, and the labels played god. The game would have to be changed, much as it was when Apple designed their YAOMS (iTunes) as a promotional engine for their [...] Read More

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Seen that? - 2005: record year for digital music

Filed in archive Best of on April 14, 2010

2005: record year for digital music Digital Music - The Future

Seen that? - 2005: record year for digital music
2005 was a record year for digital music. At the same time P2P use continues to grow. Christmas was a fabulous week. 20 million Tracks were sold in the last week of the year, three times the previous year. This is compared to P2P where 250 songs are downloaded in a week. Accordingly to the article: "If the market can retain volume gain as it did last year, the numbers [...] Read More


The Sky is Falling: Is the Record Industry Ready to Face the Music? Digital Music - The Future

This article integrates and concludes a series of postings over the past week on digital music trends. Mitch Bainwol, Chairman of RIAA, recently told CNET "Digital sales are rising at a value that is larger than the decline in physical sales. We went through a pretty extraordinary time (recently). What you're seeing now is proof of that exercise. The promise of the digital marketplace is being realized. There's new optimism." And now [...] Read More


Digital music doldrums - Long-term change Digital Music - The Future

This article is one in a series examining the Pali Capital report that showed paid music download growth is slowing. Long-term change The long-term message is that the industry's problems can no longer be obscured by digital. Does this spell doom for music? It depends on your definition of music. Independent artists are thriving through the Internet and P2P. Big music though is another story. While the industry falsely blames others [...] Read More


The Sky is Falling: Is the Record Industry Ready to Face the Music? P2P File Sharing

This article integrates and concludes a series of postings over the past week on digital music trends. Mitch Bainwol, Chairman of RIAA, recently told CNET "Digital sales are rising at a value that is larger than the decline in physical sales. We went through a pretty extraordinary time (recently). What you're seeing now is proof of that exercise. The promise of the digital marketplace is being realized. There's new optimism." And now [...] Read More


Music bootstrapping gets under way BootStrapMe

A few weeks ago I posted about an exercise meant to look at how to bootstrap an online music label from a nuts and bolts perspective. The post looked at a couple of ways that music could, and probably should, be marketed in the near future taking advantage primarily of the digital tools readily available to today's musicians and included: • Uploading original tracks to sites like Musicane for downloaded sale and [...] Read More

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Music for your spring break Cancun Vacation

Filed in archive Did you know , MP3 Players on April 5, 2010

Music for your spring break Cancun Vacation



So to all our younger readers, it's spring break, time for you to run wild, have the time of your life and party it up hardcore! But regardless of what your plans are, whether it be a Cancun Vacation or a simple beach rave, you will be needing music!

But what music? Between your friends, you'll probably have a massive mix of tastes and different tunes, so how will you decide what to play? We think the best idea is to get all of your music together on one persons computer, and then use something like iTunes' smart playlists in order to condense it down into a kickass playlist of awesome songs which will make your spring break the best it can possibly be.

It'll save all the arguments and disapointments when one friend finds out that must have song was only on their iPod and they were told not to bother as everyone else would have the music... so please, use the freedom given to us by digital music in order to make this spring break your best ever!

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Seen that? - DIY Wireless Music Player

Filed in archive Best of on March 31, 2010

DIY Wireless Music Player Digital Music - The Future

Seen that? - DIY Wireless Music Player
Tinkerer Nathan True shows how to build your own Wireless Music Player. This truly is for hardcore programmers only with lots of time on their hands. True writes: It's a problem many of us are familiar with. We have an extensive music library on our computers and iPods/portable music players, and we would like to listen to it at home, but our computers are too far from the stereo, or the [...] Read More


Wireless home music gets crowded Digital Music - The Future

Squeezebox teamed with Pandora to offer personal radio streaming for the home. Linksys joined Yahoo Music in a recent similar announcement. Squeezebox is offered by Slim Devices. It's a wireless bridge the connects music played on a computer to stereo speakers. Pandora is a streaming music service that allows users to customize the music played. The custom radio service cost $36 per year and will be offered with a free [...] Read More


SanDisk Sansa Goes Wireless Digital Music - The Future

SanDisk has introduced a new mp3 player to combat Apples' iPod and iTunes. The sandisk sansa Connect includes both WiFi and the Yahoo Music Unlimited Service for a complete music experience. The Sansa Connect comes with 4GB in storage with a microSD card slot, a 2.2-inch color screen, and integration with Yahoo music, radio, messaging, and Flickr photo-sharing services via WiFi. Among the major competitors, only Microsoft's Zune has WiFi but [...] Read More


DIY Wireless Music Player P2P File Sharing

Tinkerer Nathan True shows how to build your own Wireless Music Player. This truly is for hardcore programmers only with lots of time on their hands. True writes: It's a problem many of us are familiar with. We have an extensive music library on our computers and iPods/portable music players, and we would like to listen to it at home, but our computers are too far from the stereo, or the [...] Read More


Wireless Music Player The Gadgets Weblog

There are three two ways of having things of your own: buying, doing it yourself, or stealing. Usually, you opt for buying because there's a lack of technical knowledge among other things but this time it's different. Nathan True will be your mentor for this project, and as he says there are some reasons why you would want a Wireless Music Player: "We have an extensive music library on our computers [...] Read More

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Seen that? - Happy New Year from the French ...

Filed in archive Best of on March 19, 2010

Happy New Year from the French ... Digital Music - The Future

Seen that? - Happy New Year from the French ...
... for music lovers, that is. France May Allow P2P Downloads. The French Parliament voted to allow free downloads of copyright content from the Internet for private use. The translated legislation - "Authors cannot forbid the reproductions of works that are made on any format from an online communication service when they are intended to be used privately and when they do not imply commercial means directly or indirectly." Consumer digital rights in [...] Read More


Consumer P2P use legal in France Digital Music - The Future

A Paris district court ruled P2P downloading and sharing to be legal as long as its for personal use. France has compulsory licensing in the form of a levy on blank CDs and tapes to pay copyright holders and is considering a similar fee for P2P users. The ruling aligns France with Canada, and opposite countries like the U.S., U.K. and Australia where consumer P2P use in conjunction with copyrighted content [...] Read More


Yahoo Wins Against Sony BMG in Six Year Old Lawsuit Digital Music - The Future

BMG and other major labels sued Launch Media in 2001 over the use of custom music streaming. BMG is now part of Sony BMG. Launch Media was bought by Yahoo. BMG claimed that the Launch Media LAUNCHcast service customization, initiated when users rated music, required additional licensing and fees. The other labels dropped out of the lawsuit when Yahoo bought Launch Media and renegotiated licensing. But BMG hung on. Six [...] Read More


Happy New Year from the French ... P2P File Sharing

... for P2P and music lovers, that is. France May Allow P2P Downloads. The French Parliament voted to allow free downloads of copyright content from the Internet for private use. The translated legislation - "Authors cannot forbid the reproductions of works that are made on any format from an online communication service when they are intended to be used privately and when they do not imply commercial means directly or indirectly." Consumer digital [...] Read More


Happy New Year 2007 The VoIP Weblog

With New year just a few hours away I thought why not wish my readers world over a happy and prosperous new year. May the year 2007 bring along with it joys of light in your life and fulfill all your wishes. Wishes for you and your family from everybody at CW!! [...] Read More

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