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Social Networks and Games Dominate Time Online

Source: HypeBot
August 3, 2010

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"Music Anywhere," a New Music Locker Service

Source: HypeBot
August 3, 2010

The Carphone Warehouse has partnered with Catch Media to launch 'Music Anywhere.' The service aims to provide users access to their entire music library, wherever they are in the world; it 'fingerprints' their library and then allows them to seamlessly stream those tracks to their computer, laptop, smartphone. Their App works on...

iPhones, BlackBerries and Android handsets and automatically syncs with the their home library and 'smartcaches' the most listened to songs on the device. As well, users have access ...

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Spotify Restarts U.S. Label Negotiations, or Not...

Source: HypeBot
August 1, 2010

For almost two years, Spotify has been trying to launch in the US, having hoped to go live back in 2009. Sources now report that their licensing negotiations with the major record labels have been restarted entirely. Thus far, CEO Daniel Ek has failed to sway them to go along with his vision for the U.S version of the service. 

In the last month, attempts have been made to approach the labels with a clean state, but it's difficult to ...

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Is Your E-Mail Open Rate 21.32%?

Source: We All Make Music
August 1, 2010

All the experts will tell you that getting fans' e-mail addresses is a huge deal: the fans that part with that information will spend more money on you than those who don't; they will come out to more of your shows; they tell more of their friends to check out your music, etc.

But knowing how valuable your e-mail list is simply raises questions: How often should I e-mail people on it? What should I send them? And, scariest of ...

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Google in Your Pocket, Apple in Your Mind

Source: Moses Supposes
August 1, 2010

Another Chapter in the Double Standard of Music and Technology. Google protects their stuff but the music and content biz should give it up for free?

Moses Avalon

While Google is hard at work trying to make it possible for the public to steal any creative work you can cache in a browser, they are also working hard to make sure that that same public doesn't steal from them.

The Android platform (Sprint, Verizon) Google announced this week in ...

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CD Baby Adds to Discussion on iTunes Live Times

Source: HypeBot
August 1, 2010

Asked for his thoughts on the evolving story surrounding Ditto Music, 24-hour iTunes live times, TuneCore CEO Jeff Price's assertions, and Lee Parson's, co-founder of Ditto Music, rebuttal to Price, Tony van Veen, CEO of CD Baby had this to add to the discussion:

“CD Baby has worked hard on our internal processes to get artists' titles processed and live the day they sign up, and iTunes has been great with their speedy listings of digital content lately. We ...

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Topspin Media Now Sells Tickets

Source: HypeBot
July 30, 2010

Some might be privy to this if they follow either the developments at Topspin Media or the marketing efforts of Band of Horses, The Pixies, Eminem, and The Dandy Warhols, among others, but the direct-to-fan platform now sells tickets. 

In once such instance with The Pixies, reportedly, the group started out with an email list that was next to nothing and with the help of the team at Topspin, within a year's time, they were able to grow it into ...

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Thinking Inside the Box, Part One - Replicating a Traditional Mixer Inside Your Daw

Source: We All Make Music
July 29, 2010

Welcome to the latest installment of Production Tips, our new monthly feature offering, well, production tips, hosted by Simon Langford.

Mixing “In The Box" (or ITB) is something that has only really become possible in the last few years. But thanks to recent developments in technology, a real paradigm shift has occurred, and more and more people are obtaining amazing results from mixing their tracks in a home or “project" studio.

Many still feel that a big studio with a ...

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