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Social Media Trends: Focus on Your Website, Songwriting, and Playing Live (?!)

Source: HypeBot
November 5, 2011

I recently had the pleasure of moderating a panel called “Social Media: New Trends for Current Users" at the recent OCFF conference in Niagara Falls. After 90 minutes of discussion, the end result of this social media panel was that artists should focus on their own website, their mailing list, songwriting and live performance. Say what?! Allow me to explain.

The goal of the panel at OCFF was to examine the latest trends in social media, how to manage all ...

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EMI and Echonest Create First Major Label "Open Sandbox" for Music Apps

Source: HypeBot
November 4, 2011

In an unusual collaboration for a large music rightsholder, EMI and The Echo Nest are working together to put thousands of EMI controlled songs, videos and other music-related content to app developers. This tie-up with The Echo Nest is part of EMI Music's OpenEMI initiative to foster digital innovation and streamline music licensing. The Echo Nest and EMI have created a 'sandbox' for app developers, hosted and managed by The Echo Nest, which offers creative briefs and opportunities to collaborate ...

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iTunes Store Deletes Amazon Cloud Music Player

Source: HypeBot
November 2, 2011

Earlier this month, Evolver posted about how to play the music stored in your Music Beta by Google account on your iPhone using an app called gMusic. Today, we had planned to do the same for aMusic, a $2 app that lets you play music in your Amazon storage locker on iOS as well. Just one problem: It can no longer be found in iTunes. We hear this is due to that ominous phrase: “legal issues with the music industry." From the ...

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Legitmix: Make Money from Mixes Without Clearances (and It Might Even Be Legal)

Source: HypeBot
November 2, 2011

Legitmix is one of the most innovative offerings I've seen to date.  It allows you to create legal, monetizable mixes that include copyrighted work without getting clearances. I'm going to focus on what it does but, if it survives future legal challenges, which may well come, and if it works properly with large numbers of users, Legitmix seems likely to be a huge success. Legitmix Empowers Artists Here's a great summary of what Legitmix does from their homepage titled “The ...

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Dave Allen: Supporting Musicians on the Social Web

Source: HypeBot
October 29, 2011

The online music “business" has long been a minefield for musicians, especially unsigned independent musicians. When the default business plan for streaming services such as Spotify, Pandora and Mog, is to raise investor money, license music from the recording labels and then launch a service that requires advertising in the stream, one has to wonder what's in it for the musicians who receive a fraction of compensation in royalties from the labels for their labours, or the music fans who have to endure ...

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Twitter is Now Following the Music Industry in a Serious Way...

Source: Digital Music News
October 29, 2011

Twitter is expanding its strategy of brokering high-impact media relationships, and that could mean some very interesting music deals ahead. Already, the company is putting the final touches on a big partnership with 'The X Factor' in the US, one that involves realtime voting and feedback. But that's just a humble beginning. 'The X Factor' handshake smartly expands voting beyond texting. And, Twitter is changing the rules a bit for the show. Basically, voting is happening through direct messages—not mentions—a ...

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Musician Website Quick Fix #1: Turn Off Auto-Start

Source: HypeBot
October 28, 2011

This is the first of a series of quick posts we're working on to give simple, actionable tips and advice that can help you make your website a little better and more effective. The first is one that not everyone will agree with, and even within the Bandzoogle team, folks have different opinions. Either way, here's what the CEO thinks ;) Turn off auto-start music Top 2 reasons why you should have music auto-start on your site: 1. It's your ...

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SoundHound: Delivering 1000 Songs Per Second Music Discovery

Source: HypeBot
October 27, 2011

Music discovery app SoundHound has released stats that show it processing more than 4 million music searches per day and user engagement of more more than 1,000 hits per second. The traffic comes from a reported user base of base 50 million worldwide on iOS and Android.  Competitors include Shazam. SoundHound upgraded its apps earlier this month to include features like LiveLyrics, song and artist recommendation and sharing capabilities. In the 30-day period ending Oct. 20, 2011, SoundHound says that ...

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