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Ex-Google, Facebook Programmers Launch Weav App To Change How Music Is Created And Consumed
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Musicians, Fans And App Developers Needed To Test New Software Delivering music fits your location, activity and mood has been the goal of apps like Songza and playlists on every major music service. Weav takes an entirely new approach - variable tempo. New app Weav hopes to do nothing less than change how we create and listen to music. Created by Lars Rasmussen who co-created Google Maps and Google Wave before becoming Facebook’s Director of Engineering and his partner Elomida ...
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Starbucks Shifts Music Gears From iTunes to Spotify In Major Multi-Year Partnership
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Digital music deals and launches are accelerating ahead of next months Apple music relaunch. Spotify hit a solid double yesterday with multi-faceted Starbucks deal that includes 200,000+ free Spotify Premium accounts and marks a shift for the ubiquitous retailer away from a longterm relationship with iTunes. Longtime iTunes music partner Starbucks is shifting its allegiance from iTunes to Spotify in a multi-year deal that involves music in its 7000 retail outlets, free Spotify Premium for all its employees and ...
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Jukely Adds $8 Million In Funding To Expand $25/Mo. Concert Subscription Service
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Jukely promised tickets to unlimited concerts for just $25 a month; and they appear to be delivering in way that's exciting live concert fans and encouraging discovery. To fuel expansion, investors have just added $8 million in funding. Concert discovery app Jukely has raised $8 million in a seed extension round from existing investors, led by Spotify investors Northzone and Alex Zubillaga's 14W,. There was also additional participation from Lyor Cohen, Larry Marcus, Hany Nada, Maiden Lane and GroupMe founders ...
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YouTube Playlists, The Other User Generated Content
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The mixtape has long been a part of music culture. Ever since the 8-track and the cassette, fans have spent countless hours compiling tracks into audible lists that vary from a simple top favorites to highly conceptual themes. So, what if you could track how many times your songs make it to a mixtape? Guest Post by Armando Crespo on The Daily Rind For some, mixtapes are creative outlets that can hold deep meaning. For others, they are simply a means to carry ...
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Google 360 Welcomes Anyone, Anywhere Inside The World-Famous Abbey Road Studios
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If you've had a lifelong dream of seeing where the magic happens within Abbey Road Studios, Google just made it come true. Partnering with Abbey Road Studios to create and compile more than 150 different 360-degree panoramic images, Inside Abbey Road was born. Google introduced Inside Abbey Road to fans around the world in a blog post on Tuesday (April 14th): Throughout the studios you’ll find more than 30 stories, full of anecdotes and facts about the studios, like the ...
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Live Streaming For Musicians: Periscope vs. Meerkat
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"Explore the world in real time through someone else's eyes." That's the tagline coined by Periscope, the shiny, new live streaming Twitter app that's probably popped up countless times in your Newsfeed as of late. And whose eyes would you rather see the world through, than your favorite artist's? By Jenn Schwartz, Interactive Marketing Manager, The Orchard For those living under a social media rock, it all began just weeks ago when live video streaming app, Meerkat, launched, earning seemingly ...
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Watch: Official Guided Video Tour Of Music On Apple Watch
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The Apple Watch has been one of the company's most anticipated and buzz about product releases, and like most things that Apple does, music is front and center. Yesterday, Apple released a series of videos offering guided tours of features on the Apple Watch including this one on music: “Learn how to control the music on your iPhone and listen to a playlist directly from your watch." Here's an Apple Watch introduction and overview: And a guided tour of ...
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Pandora, Spotify, iTunes Hatch Plan To Make Musicians Love Them
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Musicians unhappy with the size of their payments from streaming music services have meant an ongoing public relations nightmare for Spotify, Pandora and their competitors. Attempts to plead for patience, explain the complex math and blame the record labels have all fallen on deaf ears. So the music streamers have each hatched a plan to win over artists without increasing payouts. They're promising to help them... Much has been made over what streaming music services pay rightsholders, and how much ...
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