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Why Don't You Join the Conversation Already?

Source: HypeBot
October 5, 2010

For how concerned most people seem about the future of music and creators in the digital age, you'd be surprised that there aren't more people talking about it. This is important. Yet, sometimes it feels like there just aren't nearly enough people writing about it. I would like to think that I have a pretty good handle on the conversations that are happening around these subjects, because I have Google Alerts mining the web for the terms recording industry, record ...

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iGBMobile: Fake Book Search and Browse App for iPhone and iPod Touch

Source: Michael Ricci
October 3, 2010

The ultimate pocket sized song reference for Musicians, Music Students and Educators. iGBMobile provides indices for over 30 different fake books giving you the ability to quickly search for songs by title or composer. It allows musicians to load, using iTunes, PDF versions of popular fake books on to your iPhone or iPod Touch for quick and easy reference. Using the extensize song index and search capability a musician can find out which book a song is in, which page ...

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Rewind: Bittorrent Promotes Artists, the Life of a Tweet, Anonymous Speaks, Hype Cycles, and More

Source: HypeBot
October 3, 2010

The music industry started the week out with the news that Vevo may expand their services to include a music television network. The appeal for The Pirate Bay started and the media oddly remained somewhat silent about it. Barry Diller has resigned as the Chairmen of the Board of Live Nation. Despite the RIAA's best efforts, downloading tool Mulve is still online. Hypebot argued that, “[The site] is a reminder that the industry needs to put it's efforts elsewhere and ...

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Think the iPad is Just a Toy? Then You Haven't Checked out This Licensing App...

Source: Digital Music News
October 2, 2010

B2B music licensing remains a hyper-competitive niche, and that spells lots of innovation and low-cost licensing for producers. Sure, sync licenses are moving southward, though the upside is that more independent artists can slot their content into films, ads, and other visual content. Also, producers can now get their licenses fast. But what happens when you're on location—at a shoot, in a client meeting, or in the trailer—and you need to make something match right now? Enter Jingle Punks, one ...

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The Basics of Remixing, Part One: Time-Stretching Vocals

Source: We All Make Music
October 2, 2010

Welcome to the latest installment of Production Tips, our new monthly feature offering, well, production tips, hosted by Simon Langford. In the first part of this three part series on remixing, I am going to give you an overview of one of its biggest challenges: time-stretching vocals. The higher up one goes on the remixing food chain, the more important it is to keep the vocalist happy. Often, this means time-stretching the vocals while making them sound like you haven't ...

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Forecast Predicts Strong Digital Download Growth

Source: HypeBot
October 2, 2010

At present there are 105.4m paid users of digital music in North America. A new forecast predicts that number will grow to 227.2m by 2014. As well, it argues that the number of paid download users in the US and Canada—from the period of 2010 to 2014—will increase from 105.4m to 227.2m. However, they expect that the greatest growth will happen through online and mobile subscription users; an increase from 1.9m in 2009 to 9.1m in 2014. In accordance, they ...

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The Cloud Challenge: Would You Survive, or Totally Freak Out?

Source: Digital Music News
October 1, 2010

Can music fan survive on cloud alone? Could you survive? Or, would you go scampering for your iPod, your gapingly-large hard drive, your oh-so-familiar local iTunes collection? Could you last a week on Rdio, Spotify, orGrooveshark alone, mixed in with some Pandora perhaps? Or, even Google Music or a cloud-enabled iTunes in the near future? Or would you totally freak out? Lamenting your constantly-shrinking smartphone battery, fretting about that cross-Atlantic trip, wondering whether your cloud provider of choice is going ...

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Giga Tools Launches, a New Event Management Tool; 25 Free Accounts Offered to Hypebot Readers

Source: HypeBot
October 1, 2010

GigaTools is a promotional tool for DJ's, musicians, record labels and booking agents to manage, promote and share their event schedules online. Artists can integrate their events schedule with any number of sites and social networks. Management and agents can maintain multiple schedules for their roster in one interface and ensure that all upcoming events are always up to date across their entire companies web presence. GigaTools is a paid subscription based service; they also publish upcoming events to a ...

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