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What Promises To Transform Music Listening In The Age Of Alexa? Lyrics.
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We've come a long way since the wild west of lyrics, which are now easily searchable and provide artists with an additional source of income. Moving forward, lyrics will provide essential contextual metadata in the age of voice command. Guest post by Darryl Ballantyne of Lyric Find Lyrics provide essential contextual metadata, information about tracks that can’t be extracted and discovered any other way. They can unlock a future when you can walk into a room and ask via voice command ...
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UNBUNDLED: Reformatting Music's Barriers
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The unbundling of music has been a hot topic within the industry ever since Steve Jobs insisted that iTunes be able to sell every individual album track for 99 cents. Here, Adam Marx continues his deep and important analysis of the practice with a look at how unbundling has unwrapped previous barriers and changed music. By Adam Marx The first movement in this symphony is the “unbundled” piece. It’s all about “reformatting” the conceptual barriers that initially existed for decades. It’s divided into two parts: Choice and Format. ...
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Record Growth: Pressing Plants Invest In Vinyl
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While streaming may be the dominant form of music consumption, it's no secret that vinyl is also seeing an impressive renaissance among music consumers, which is causing more pressing plant to make the smart investment and poney up for vinyl. Guest post by William Glanz of SoundExchange [Editor’s note: We’re all about streaming at SoundExchange. But we have a special place in our hearts for vinyl. We all remember the first album we bought (but couldn’t find it now if ...
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TIDAL Adds Detailed Album, Track Credits
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TIDAL has become the first streaming music service to give creators something they've been clamouring for- credit where credit is due. TIDAL subscribers now have access to extensive artist credits for many tracks and albums that are reminiscent of liner notes. TIDAL has added access to extensive artist credits for tracks and albums, reminiscent of album liner notes. The data includes in- depth descriptions and credits for composers, lyricists, engineers, musicians, vocalists, instrumentalists, mastering, production, mixing, album cover photographer and more. ...
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NYC Finally Repeals 100 Year Old Law Prohibiting Dancing In Bars
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New York City has repealed a century-old restriction barring dancing in bars if they do not have a cabaret license. According to the New York Times, the City Council on Tuesday voted 41-1 to repeal the Cabaret Law and the bill is expected to be signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has indicated his support for the proposal. After DeBlasio signs, the repeal will go into effect within 30 days. “The mayor strongly supports repealing the law,” a spokesman ...
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Pandora Total Listener Hours Fall 7% As Subscriptions, Revenue Grow
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Pandora reported improved revenue and paid subscriber growth for Q3 2017, but total listeners hours fell 7% over the same quarter last year. Paid subscriptions grew 29% year-over-year to 5.19 million, including 1 million subscribers to Pandora's Premium on-demand streaming service, which launched in May of this year. Some highlights: Key User Base Metrics: Total monthly active users = 73.7M Pandora Premium paid subscribers cross the 1 million milestone in October 2017 Total paid subscribers (across Pandora Plus & Premium) ...
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Southwest Airlines Hopes To Become A Music Tastemaker
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A company with a history of trying to inject fun into travel, Southwest airlines has recently been attempting to build on its brand through the power of music. This has taken the form of pop-up concerts which, while certainly fun in theory, have not been met with universal appreciation Guest post by David Deal of Superhypeblog Southwest Airlines is known for trying to inject fun into air travel, such as employees at an airport gate creating a spontaneous karaoke moment or a ...
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Meta-Metadata: Turning Three Text Fields Into Millions of Dollars
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As the number of data records music companies continues to grow, the value of efficiency has continued to increase, particularly given that each record contains only a few points of data. To a keen observer, there are deep, financially beneficial possibilities in this track-related information. Guest post by Jesse Buddington, Director of Licensing Operations at Loudr Leaping from a few hundred thousand to trillions of lines in a few short years, the number of data records music companies must process has grown exponentially. ...
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