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Songbird Bug Accidentally Wipes Users' iPods

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2009

Just when the Songbird media player was finally shaping up into a mature application we liked, a critical bug has emerged that deletes all the music from an iPod when it's connected to the app.

The problem, which the Songbird team is already aware of, lies with a buggy iPod add-on that can corrupt and even delete music from your iPod. At this time, the problem is only affecting a small minority of users.

Songbird has pulled the iPod add-on ...

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New iPhone 3.0 Update Cures Headaches

Source: Michael Ricci
March 18, 2009

Users will finally be able to cut and paste, handle MMS texts and more. (Did we mention cut and paste?)

Reporting from San Francisco -- Apple Inc. finally plans to fix some big shortcomings that have troubled iPhone users since the device was released in June 2007.

The company said Tuesday that it was adding the abilities to copy and paste, to send and receive the multimedia text messages known as MMS, and to turn the iPhone sideways for typing ...

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Songbird Player Adds 7digital Integration

Source: HypeBot
March 18, 2009

As iTunes is

to the ITunes Player...

MP3 download store 7digital.com is now integrated within the open source Songbird media player. Much like iTunes has its own fully integrated player software, Songbird users in the US and Europe can purchase and download directly from 7digital's 6 million track catalog to their computer or MTP portable devices from Sony, Philips, Sansa, Samsung and others.

Songbird is gaining popularity with robust features like Last.fm scrobbling and integrated artist news and concert info. ...

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More Get Their Music Fix on Social Networks

Source: HypeBot
March 18, 2009

Highlights of a new NPD Group study:

Underscoring the increasing importance of sites like MySpace for music discovery, 19% of those surveyed said they listen to music through social networking sites, up 4% from a year ago Almost half of US teens listen to music on social networks up from 37% in 2007. Among college-age fans the percentage rose to 41% from 30% the previous year. The number of U.S. consumers buying CDs fell by 17M in 2008. The decline ...

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The Converging of Cultures: MTV and Youtube (Part 1)

Source: HypeBot
March 18, 2009

Introduction

Did the MTV, the earliest purveyor and capitalist of popular culture, foretell future of the music video through a 'mediamorphosis' that converged the commercial culture that we had all come to know with the participatory interaction that the Internet embraced? If so, did it in turn cause its own demise by continuously sending its users to the online venue that would later force it to commit 'mediacide?' We may never know. Nevertheless, its transition from Music Television that played ...

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The Converging of Cultures: MTV and Youtube (Part 3)

Source: HypeBot
March 18, 2009

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor

Context Collapse

In some cases, sharing the 'same stage' refers to the medium, but for others, their stage consists of playing music in their bedroom and recording it with a webcam. What effect then may this have on our perception of the captured performance that seems to assimilate authenticity? Is it the context of seeing the performer play in their bedroom? Or, is it lack of the context, because neither of us is in ...

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Watunes Offers Free Digital Distribution

Source: HypeBot
March 18, 2009

WaTunes has announced that it will no longer charge artists for digital distribution to iTunes and other online retailers. The company hopes to generate revenue from ads on a new music social networking site.

The fees that digital distributors charge have expereinced aggressive downward pressure in recent months with TuneCore, ReverbNation and others offering indie artists access to major online retailers for a low flat fee. But Watunes' unlimited free model, while potentially game changing, could be hard to sustain ...

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Rapid Growth in Social Networking Worldwide

Source: HypeBot
March 18, 2009

Two-thirds of the world's Internet population visit social networking sites eacmonth accounting for almost 10% of all internet time, according to a new Nielsen report “Global Faces and Networked Places“. In the UK social networking accounts for about 18% of online time and in Brazil its 25%. Across all territories, the growth shows no sign of slowing. The rise in social networking cuts across all age groups. Using Facebook as an example:

MOBILE GROWTH Mobile ...

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