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India Embracing Digital Downloads? Flyte Surpasses 600k Downloads in 6 Months
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Back in February, India's largest web retailer Flipkart announced its entry into the world of digital music sales with Flyte. In less than six months, the service has already seen more than 600,000 cumulative downloads, and according to the company, is seeing nearly 5,000 downloads each day - accounting for 1% of Flipkart's overall revenue. Flyte currently offers over two million tracks from 55 languages and 700 genres, and is seeing positive response from Indian users. Flyte has also launched applications for ...
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Internet Archive Distributing Free Music, Movies and Books Via Bittorrent
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The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library that permanently stores a great deal of content. In particular their Live Music Archive includes a wide range of freely downloadable recording of live concerts by artists that have allowed their work to be included. Recently a partnership between The Internet Archive and BitTorrent was announced that allows for distribution of these files as torrents. As BitTorrent's Matt Mason noted when we discussed DJ Shadow's BitTorrent bundle, this use of BitTorrent to ...
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An Inside Look Into MTV's Next Big Thing: Artists.MTV
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Not since the heyday of MySpace has there been one single go-to destination where music fans can get reliable information about musicians on every front. With so much content out there, and with many musicians' websites simply not providing an immersive enough experience, fans rely on search engines to find things that are dispersed all over the web including news, blogs, videos, tour dates, biographies, discographies, and photos. Now with Twitter, Facebook, BandCamp, SoundCloud and others being factored in, there ...
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Google Plus Launches 'Studio Mode' for Live Online Music
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Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Remember when we wrote about how Google+ could steal music fans from Facebook if it figured out how to stream concerts using Google Hangouts, and everyone from our pals at Wired to CNN picked up on it? Well, it looks like Google was listening — or at least thinking along the same lines. On Monday, Google announced (and TechCrunch reported about) a new “Studio Mode" that musicians can use to play online ...
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Apple is Pulling Youtube from Ios and It's Bad News for Music, Apps
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Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. When the very first iPhone shipped, literally changing the world as we knew it, it carried a little Trojan horse inside of it called YouTube. The app for Google's video sharing site comes standard with every single iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, but all of that ends with the next version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 6, as noted by The Verge and just about every other tech blog. It's big ...
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DIY Music Updates Social Commerce Platform with Interactive Social App
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DIY Music, a division of DIY Media, unveiled today their new and improved social commerce platform designed specifically for musicians and labels, which provides them with simple ways to build and monetize their audiences. Not only can fans listen to music and share videos through the platform, but they can also buy music directly from Facebook posts, Tweets, and even from online banner ads, allowing artists to create content-rich social media storefront campaigns. DIY Music's platform is said to work ...
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An Introduction to Programming Languages for Musicians
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Sean Markey helps musicians with marketing and PR at Visible Musician. In an increasingly DIY environment, musicians are expected to wear many different hats. You do your own PR with Twitter and ReverbNation, you do your own concert promoting with Facebook, and you were the recording engineer, backing band, and producer on all the songs you just recorded on your Macbook Pro. Maybe you want to add web developer to your repertoire of talents. From customizing your website, to building ...
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A Look Inside the 'New" Music Focused MySpace
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As tainted of a brand name MySpace may be right now, the fallen social network plans to make a comeback in late 2012 with a focus on what their core mission should have been all along - connecting musicians with fans. Specific Media bought MySpace from News Corp. for $35 million, along with partner in the deal Justin Timberlake, and plans to revive MySpace as a go-to place for musicians again. Only this time, they attempt to differentiate themselves not ...
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