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Music, Community and File-Sharing; Fan-Funding Techniques; and Merch Table Essentials

Source: HypeBot
September 10, 2010

This week there are three great essays over at Music Think Tank worth checking out, covering topics ranging from merch table essentials, insight into fan-funding, and the evolution of music communities. Take a moment and read through these insights into various aspects of the music and record industries: Music, community & file-sharing: from Napster to Ping. Using Fan-Funding Techniques to Help Direct a DTF Marketing and Sales Campaign. Merch Table Essentials: 15 Ways For Musicians To Increase Sales, Fans and ...

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Apple Says Go to Distributor to Get iTunes Ping Artist Profile and TuneCore's Response

Source: HypeBot
September 10, 2010

Ever since Ping launched, there has been a bit of confusion and discontent about how indie artists can get their own Artist Profiles on iTunes 10's new social network. Today came the answer. “Those interested in creating Artist Profiles on Ping should contact their label or aggregator," an Apple spokesperson told Hypebot. “iTunes is working directly with labels and aggregators to create Artist Profiles." In other words, whoever put your music on iTunes has to help you get your Ping ...

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Last.FM Introduces Listening Clock Feature

Source: HypeBot
September 9, 2010

And Incorporates Time Into Music Recommendations. Music recommendation is fairly straightforward, at a time, when our consumption habits clearly aren't. The general, algorithmic approach takes the stance that users who played a song in accordance with another in high volume will likely enjoy a song that other users have voted as being most-relevant in the progression of the playlist. Others take song structure and cadence into consideration, while several services attempt to tap the social and human elements of the ...

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Myspace Adds User Generated Video Channels

Source: HypeBot
September 9, 2010

MySpace has just added a new feature that enables the creation of shared video channel based on vdieo content they've created individually or through their network of friends. Powered by Redux, the channel is viewed from the MySpace activity stream and plays videos that the user or a friend has shared, selected as a favorite, uploaded, and rated. The player shows a real-time stream of MySpace videos based on what their friends are sharing and what's trending on MySpace. Artists ...

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Shazam Suddenly Wants More Recognition...

Source: Digital Music News
September 8, 2010

Shazam is a necessity for some app-toting music fans, though even the savviest users can miss a tune. The reason is simple: songs are typically a few minutes long, and that means they often end before a recognition can me made. The solution? Shazam's latest batch of iPhone and iPod touch updates actually enable tagging on startup, thereby increasing the chances of a quick match. That is just one of several iOS4-related improvements, a batch that includes support for multi-tasking, ...

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What Happened at Music Hack Day London

Source: HypeBot
September 8, 2010

This post is from Hilke Ros (@hilkeros)at Motion Music Manager. Last Saturday, the 8th Music Hack Day kicked off in London. Music Hack Day is a gathering of software developers and coders working on music related projects. Since July 2009 all the smartest minds in music technology come together to hack on small projects that might determine the future of music on the internet. They tap into the API platforms of services such as Last.fm, Soundcloud and The Echonest to ...

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5 Traits That Ping Might Reveal About Your Friends

Source: HypeBot
September 8, 2010

(That You Didn't Want To Know) With Apple's big announcement last week that iTunes will now be integrated with a social network—based around music discovery — called Ping, its worth reflecting on why, as cool as it sounds, that it may not be the best thing that ever happened to your life. To review, Ping is like Twitter for music but with a Facebook-style newsfeed. Basically, you can follow and be followed by your friends and Ping will record the latest ...

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Apple's Ping Grabs 1 Million Users in 48 Hours

Source: HypeBot
September 7, 2010

iTune's new social network Ping is drawing a lot of criticism for its lack of connectivity to other networks (Facebook shut Ping out) and a profile system that limits access for many indie artists. Still, less than 48 hours since its launch on Wednesday, more than one million users had joined Ping, according to Apple. “One-third of the people who have downloaded iTunes 10 have joined Ping," said Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of Internet Services. “As many more people ...

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