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Site Worth Watching: bandsurfing.com

Source: HypeBot
April 27, 2011

I often come across music tech and musician services startups that look promising. But because they are early stage and must rise above so much noise and competition to succeed, that I'm often not ready to say that they're worthy of your attention or a full review. But they're great ideas nonetheless and great ideas are worth sharing.  So from time time, we'll do a very brief feature of one under the banner Worth Watching.  First up is BandSurfing.com. “A ...

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Groundbreaking iPad Music App, An Evening with Dave Grusin, Now Available

Source: Cathy Nevins
April 26, 2011

ROBA Interactive's Groundbreaking Debut iPad Music App “An Evening with Dave Grusin" Now Available

Multi-Media Experience Takes You Deep Into this Landmark Concert Event

ROBA Interactive's first iPad App, An Evening with Dave Grusin, is now available in the iTunes App Store. The groundbreaking multi-media app, conceived and produced by ROBA, contains hours of behind-the-scenes interviews, music and video clips from the historic December 2009 concert performance of multi-Grammy and Oscar-winning jazz recording artist, pianist, composer, and arranger Dave Grusin ...

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RealNetworks Gives iTunes A 'Rinse'

Source: HypeBot
April 26, 2011

RealNetworks, once a dominate player in music, is still trying to find it's place in a post-iTunes world.  It's latest offering Rinse, doesn't even try to compete, but rather aknowledges Apple's dominance with a utility to organize your iTunes library: add missing album art, fix misspellings, remove duplicates, rename genres and more. “Rinse is powered by an intelligent online database which means it can fix songs without making you type in the new information."  We'll be testing Ronse and other ...

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Tuneup Just Went 2.0. We've Got 10 Lifetime Accounts..

Source: Digital Music News
April 23, 2011

TuneUp Media 2.0 is out! First 10 commenters get a lifetime access code (just make sure you're registered so we can find you on email). And, everyone gets a 15 percent discount: just use the code 'DMNEWS2011,' the app download is at tuneupmedia.com. But enough about freebies and discounts, here's the review... Oh right, my iTunes collection. It used to be my world; nowit coexists alongside my curated Pandora stations, Spotify collection, hearted Grooveshark tracks, slowly-growing ex.fm library, and 'liked' ...

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Behind the Blogs - musiciancoaching.com

Source: We All Make Music
April 23, 2011

If you've ever gone looking for advice and actionable information for independent musicians, then odds are you've come across Rick Goetz's blog, Musician Coaching. In a musician advice and industry insights landscape that is growing more crowded by the month, Musician Coaching is a cut above, featuring a level of access and insight in his interviews that most sites simply do not have. That's partly because Goetz actually has access and plenty of insights. A former director of A&R at ...

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8tracks.com - Digital Answer to Lost Art of Mixtapes

Source: HypeBot
April 20, 2011

A digital answer to the lost art of the mixtape, 8tracks allows listeners to create their own playlists that can be easily shared with others. Half music discovery service and half curation tool, 8tracks users can generate custom playlists by uploading their own MP3s or using songs already imported into 8tracks' library, which can then be streamed online, tweeted, and embedded onto other websites. 8tracks is similar to the now defunct Muxtape, another shareable playlist hosting site that rose in ...

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Gig Tracker 2.0

Source: MusicianWages.com
April 20, 2011

April 19th, 2011 It can be difficult, as a freelancer, to keep track of the income coming in from gigs. On an average week I might work for 5-8 different employers and clients—I'm sure you are the same. Very early in my career I started to feel overwhelmed by tracking pay stubs and cash gigs. I came up with a solution I call Gig Tracker.

Gig Tracker

Gig Tracker is an excel spreadsheet I put together about 6 years ago. ...

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How to Use Facebook Questions to Increase Fan Engagement

Source: HypeBot
April 16, 2011

Facebook recently released Facebook Questions, a new feature which allows users to harness the power of the crowd—the crowd of course, being their social network. Using Facebook Questions, users can poll their friends on everything from the best Mexican restaurant in their neighborhood to their favorite American Idol contestant. But how can an artist effectively use Facebook Questions? The feature was designed to create a more personalized recommendation system than perhaps, Yelp, Yahoo! Answers, or Quora, because the opinions are ...

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