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Exclusive: MySpace Music Piloting 'Wildfire' Fan Intelligence Platform...

Source: Digital Music News
April 4, 2011

Are you just blasting your social networks, and spreading yourself thin responding to every last tweet? Yes, according to many of the labels, artists, and managers we've talked to, and it's just not working. But, how can this be done more intelligently, with more efficiency and better fan engagement? This is a serious problem in music marketing today, and one that MySpace Music is now attempting to address. According todetails shared with Digital Music News over the weekend, MySpace Music ...

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Bands! - Social Networking is Not Just Online.

Source: HypeBot
April 2, 2011

Post by: Robin Davey, Head of Music and Film Development at GROWVision. Before the internet was so ubiquitous with social networking, bands with a little knowledge of connectivity with their audience, would keep their own social network in the form of a physical mailing list. Email had yet to make an impact and artists were forced to get peoples actual addresses and update people via snail mail. It was expensive to upkeep, time consuming to implement, but for all its woes, it was ...

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Tomahawk: Next Generation Music Player?

Source: HypeBot
April 1, 2011

This post is by Robbert van Ooijen; it originally appeared at Have You Heard It. Last week a new music player got its first public release: the Tomahawk Player. In an era where music is often scattered across multiple computers and multiple platforms, the player aims to solve this problem by organizing all of your music in one desktop interface. It definitely sounds neat to have your music from SoundCloud, Ex.fm, Spotify and your MP3s all accessible on one location. Combined ...

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Share the Soundtrack to Your Life with Soundtracking

Source: HypeBot
April 1, 2011

This post is by Alison McCarthy (@aliiimac). She's an intern at Hypebot. In the last few weeks, there have been a number of articles posted on Hypebot about the growing social music experience. As Kyle Bylin discussed, prior to the rise of the new social musics apps we're currently witnessing, the technology made available through our iPods and iTunes players simply didn't offer us a way to easily share our music with others. But new services such as Shazam Friends, MusicWithMe, WahWah.fm, ...

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Bandsintown Debuts Facebook Tour Date App

Source: HypeBot
April 1, 2011

In the past few months, Bandsintown has quietly been expanding its presence among artists and live music fans on Facebook with the release of their new, cross-platform tour dates app. While not the only concert app on Facebook, Bandsintown offers a particularly integrated solution. The app enables artists to manage and promote real Facebook events and ticket links on their Facebook pages and across their websites, MySpace pages, Tumblogs and Twitter. Randy Nichols, who uses Bandsintown for his roster at ...

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Amazon Beats Apple, Google with Launch of Unlicensed Cloud Music Locker and Player

Source: HypeBot
March 30, 2011

(UPDATED) Overnight Amazon beat both Google and Apple to market with the launch of a freemium cloud based digital media locker and robust integrated music player that accesses stored tracks across multiple computers and Android devices. The four major labels were informed late last week of the move which, Amazon insists, does not require them to ask licenses. Not every rights holder agreed, however, and at least one label group is considering how to react to Amazon's unilateral decision to ...

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Phil Ramone, Larry Rosen, Larry Miller Form Roba to Create iPad and Android Tablet Music Apps

Source: HypeBot
March 29, 2011

Music industry veterans, Larry Rosen (GRP Records), Phil Ramone (producer for Streisand, Dylan, Elton John), Larry Miller (AT&T's a2b music, Or Records) and entertainment attorney Leslie José Zigel have formed ROBA Interactive to develop iPad and Android tablet music apps. Their goal is to create a more immersive and interactive digital music experience. ROBA's patent-pending app starts with the music and then layers photographs, videos, interviews, lyrics, and other content. The App can also link to current news and tour ...

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Slacker to Add Personalized ESPN Sports Coverage

Source: HypeBot
March 25, 2011

In the race to the cloud, Slacker has shown resilience and willingness to separate itself from the pack. The latest news from Slacker reveals that they have partnered with ESPN to offer sports coverage across their web radio platform. What makes the feature unique is that listeners can customize their sports stations based on several preferences including specific sports, and regions and teams, as well as, choose to add top of the hour SportsCenter updates to any station. Slacker's partnership ...

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