Even if our Canadian friends can’t join into the party (thanks to the R, my favorite Internet radio station/music discovery engine Pandora is now available as an Adobe AIR desktop application.
The AIR app installs quickly and simply (just like all other AIR apps) and basically gives you the full Pandora online experience without the danger [...]
Microsoft’s Zune start to look like it might actually have a chance in the marketplace. Today Microsoft unveiled that it has partnered with a number of artists to create custom designs for the Zune that can be further customized online:
“We’re bringing the entire category to the next level by empowering consumers to play a role [...]
Mathew Ingram and Ethan Kaplan point out that we might all have been fooled by the ComScore numbers on how many people paid for the latest Radiohead album.
The band has reacted to this:
“In response to purely speculative figures announced in the press regarding the number of downloads and the price paid for the album, the [...]
According to data from ComScore, 1.2 million people downloaded Radiohead’s “In Rainbows”, but only 38 percent paid for it:
During the first 29 days of October, 1.2 million people worldwide visited the “In Rainbows” site, with a significant percentage of visitors ultimately downloading the album. The study showed that 38 percent of global downloaders of the [...]
According to Forbes, half a million people downloaded Radiohead’s new album through bittorrent and 1.2 million got it legally. It’s a good article and worth your read, but I just have to take on some of the reasoning in it:
With popular album releases, illegal download volumes normally outstrip sales, says Garland. But more surprising is [...]
A teacher in New York is using songs and iPods to teach students English. Fair use/educational use, or a potential lawsuit? Did she buy those songs? Did she buy them 60 times? 300 times? Once? Bittorrent?
[...] in 2006, Ms. Poli received 60 more iPods. Last May, the district decided to buy 300 iPods to expand [...]
(Via Ars Technica) Walmart is now selling DRM free mp3s from EMI and Universal for 94 cents. Of course, you have to use the Internet Explorer to actually use the service, but still.
The songs are encode with 256kBit/s. According to Walmart, the catalog features a few hundred-thousand DRM free songs at this point.
Good news for [...]
This might be the least surprising news of the day:
U.S. sales of digital music albums grew by 60 percent in the first six months of 2007 but failed to offset the rapid sales decline of compact discs, according to data from Nielsen SoundScan.
Total sales of albums were down by 15 percent for both digital and [...]
Via ArsTechnica: Amazon is readying its own music download service with DRM-free music:
According to a report
in the UK’s Times Online, Amazon has approached “all the music
majors in the past fortnight” in order to launch its MP3 store in May
but may have some trouble meeting its own deadline. Apple plans to start selling
DRM-free music from [...]
I am horrible at writing music reviews, so I won’t even attempt one, but seeing Jonathan Coulton live in a small pub/bar in Portland, singing Baby Got Back and Code Monkey has definitely been one of the most fun experiences of the year so far (for me at least – and my wife loved it [...]
Fox News reports that the 13 core Beatles albums are going to come to an online music store near you soon. Itunes is a safe bet for the first store to have it, especially now that Apple Inc. and Apple Corps have entered into a new agreement over the use of the Apple name.
The Beatles [...]
Okay, so there is competition for Apple… or not… anybody else notice the $2.50 price tag – per song… out of only 250.000 songs. Nice try. Bring it down to $0.99 and then try again. Also, given that the ROKR phone is not a big hit, maybe the industryneeds to re-think if people really want [...]
The ‘racialist’ girl band Prussian Blue is making a major splash in the blogosphere right now. They are closely aligned with the National Vanguard. The Movement Exposed Blog does a fine job at looking behind the scenes of this disgusting group.
Their website is unavailable right now – probably taken down by a black hacker – [...]
