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ExCITe Center to Host Philadelphia's First Music Hack Day
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Michael Ricci
PHILADELPHIA, PA: More than 100 technology and music enthusiasts will join forces with coders, designers and industry representatives to create new music-related technology during the first Music Hack Day in Philadelphia. A 24-hour marathon of conceptualizing, hacking and coding with the goal of designing the future of music technology will bring artists, engineers, musicians, programmers and enthusiasts from around the region to Drexel’s Expressive and Creative Interaction Technologies (ExCITe) Center on May 18-19. Drexel’s Music Hack Day will be the ...
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Rhapsody Adds Liner Notes, a 1st for Digital Music
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HypeBot
At the Music Biz 2013 Conference today in LA, Rhapsody, announced that it is adding liner notes and credits to it's digital music offering. Credits for songwriters, background performers, producers and engineers are being added to the song title, album, and featured artist listed on other music services. Rhapsody users can now search for music by a songwriter, specific producer, or featuring a specific session musician, for example. Full implementation of the credits will occur over the coming months. Examples ...
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CEO Chris Kantrowitz on Creating the Future of Music Storage and File Transfer at Gobbler
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HypeBot
Cloud storage is a big topic these days but specialized services for musicians are still coming into their own. Last week I spoke with Gobbler CEO and Founder Chris Kantrowitz about his unique cloud storage, syncing and transfer platform for musicians and others who work with digital audio. From his early days as a teen entrepreneur to the launch of Gobbler, his fifth startup, Kantrowitz combines a unique founder's tale with the experience of one who's faced the problems he's ...
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Bandzoogle Acquires Musician Website Platform NoteWay Media
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HypeBot
Bandzoogle, the popular website platform for musicians, today announced that it has acquired the assets of NoteWay Media, a niche competitor that also provides a self-serve website platform for musicians, performers and entertainers. Details of the acquisition were not released. NoteWay hosted websites are being moved to Bandzoogle's servers over the next few weeks and NoteWay users will enjoy a free trial before deciding on one of Bandzoogle's subscription plans. “We are excited to work with NoteWay and provide a ...
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CueNotes: Making the Transition from Old School Liner Notes to the Digital Realm
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HypeBot
Digital liner notes and related offerings such as “annotated song lyrics“ have long been considered one way to “bring back“ some of the experience of listening to old timey record albums. But the temptation to create a digital replica that amounts to shovelware rather than adapting such concepts to the internet is a strong one. CueNotes is an example of one company that's making the transition with its iOS app. I don't think musicians should wait for music tech companies ...
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Social Media Impact for Musicians: How Conan O'Brien Beats out Other Late Night Shows
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HypeBot
By Liv Buli (@lbuli)), Resident Data Journalist for music analytics company Next Big Sound. Last March, jazz-funk jam band Galactic took to Conan O'Brien's stage and performed the track “Hey Na Na" off their recently released album Carnivale Electricos. Joined by R&B vocalist Corey Glover and brass ensemble The Soul Rebels, they brought “a little bit of New Orleans to the stage," as Conan himself put it. Over the next 24 hours, Galactic saw a 335 percent increase in daily ...
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Google Opens Universal Analytics to All Users Plus Visualize Your Google Analytics
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HypeBot
Keeping up with what your fans and followers do as they move from one screen to another has sometimes been difficult. For Google Analytics users, this process will get a bit easier with the launch of Universal Analytics in public beta. Originally available only to paying customers, Universal Analytics is now available to all users. Google announced the availability of Universal Analytics in public beta on Friday. Universal Analytics was originally offered to paying customers but everyone can now get ...
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Austin Tech Talk at SXSW: Interviews with Tom Silverman and X5's Scott Reilly
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HypeBot
The following excerpts are from 2 days of interviews conducted by Helsinki based streaming company LiveMusicStage at SXSW 2013. These interviews were filmed and streamed live on Austin Tech Talk from the LiveMusicStage booth at digitalmusic.org's lounge. LiveMusicStage is an online venue where fans can participate in interactive live-streamed concerts, broadcast by venues, festivals and studios from around the world. Tom Silverman from New Music Seminar (Interviewed by Ted Cohen) “The music business used to be like many other businesses, ...
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