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Navigating A Sea Of Music: Pandora's Catalog Curation
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In this article Glenn Peoples explores the reasoning and process behind Pandora's curation of the music they offer, and how it allows them to hand pick the best and most likely to be enjoyed tracks. Guest post by Glenn Peoples of Pandora on Medium Key takeaways: Curation allows Pandora to surface the best of the over 50 million tracks available to streaming services. A mix of signals, data science and human analysis picks the best tracks to highlight for listeners. Recommending ...
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A Core Flaw In Music's Blockchain [Chris Castle]
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Although many in the music industry are excited by the possibilities of blockchain's potential, others like Chris Castle are more skeptical, particularly of it's need to be forced on rights holders as a means of making the technology scalable. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Tech Solutions The truth about blockchain is that at its core, it requires its regime to be enforced on rights owners in order to scale–and that is its essential flaw. Call me a blockchain ...
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3 Big Takeaways From Midem 2017
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Midem 2017 is a wrap. And although attendance at the global music industry gathering did not see the uptick that the overall music industry is having there were deals done an important topics debated during the four day convention in Cannes. By Zach Fuller of MIDiA Research MIDiA Research were one of thousands of delegates who arrived in Cannes this week to attend Midem; the annual conference addressing the latest developments in the music industry. Across 4 days of panels, ...
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Cities And Their Unique Musical Culture
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In this piece Allen Bargfrede explores the relationship between cities and their music and how that relationship works to shape a city's culture and ethos, whether by accident or through intentional branding. Guest post By Allen Bargfrede, Founder of Rethink Music and MD, Europe of Thought5 I travel a lot, for both business and pleasure. I’m always struck by how music, and the sheer presence of it, impacts the culture and ethos of a city. Cities like Nashville and London ...
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Apple Introduces "Breakthrough" HomePod Speaker Designed To "Reinvent Home Music"
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At today's WWDC conference, Apple introduced HomePod, a new line of Siri controlled audiophile smart speakers that deliver automatically adjusted spatially aware sound. Connected with Apple Music, HomePod also acts as a musicologist delivering personalized music selections. In addition to being a high quality music delivery system, Apple's HomePod functions as smart speaker that can also handle Siri functions and control Apple's HomeKit home automation system. Apple promised more functionality in the near future, as HomePod enters a competitive ...
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Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture Acquires Jazz Legend Sonny Rollins's Personal Archive
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Terri Hinte Publicity
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at The New York Public Library today announced the acquisition of American tenor saxophonist and jazz legend Sonny Rollins’s personal archive. The robust collection includes more than 150 linear feet of material that document Rollins’s life and career from the 1950s to the present. This acquisition also marks the Harlem native’s “return” to the neighborhood of his youth. Rollins was profoundly influenced and inspired by the sights and sounds of the Harlem ...
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Does Music Piracy Still Exist In The Streaming Age?
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While many believe that the streaming age brought about the end of illegal downloading of music, it seems that it has only replaced it with stream ripping, a process through which music is illegally saved while it's being streamed. Guest post by Bobby Owsinski of Music 3.0 Streaming seems to have wiped out music piracy, but not according to the IFPI. The global recording industry organization claims that piracy is still alive and well but just in another form. While ...
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Another Safe Harbor For Digital Services Coming Soon [David Lowery]
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Considering the financial havoc that has been wreaked with artists' income as a result of Google's DMCA safe harbor for YouTube, it seems odd that anyone remotely informed on the topic of music licensing would think another safe harbor for streaming services would be a good idea, and yet that's just what appears to have been proposed. Guest post from David Lowery of The Trichordist Think of the damage that Google has been able to do to artists’ income with the DMCA ...
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