Results for "HypeBot"

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News: Technology

People Not PC's Pick Playlists on Play.FM

May 28, 2009

On the recently relaunched Play.fm website users can select from more than 12,000 DJ mixes, radio shows and live recordings sorted by style, popularity and other criteria. Unlike Pandora or Last.fm, people rather than an algorithm choose the music on Play.fm. DJs can upload their mixes ...

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News: Music Industry

Indie Labels Experience a Major Renaissance Amidst the Upheaval

May 27, 2009

With upheaval comes opportunity; and ongoing problems within the recorded music industry has also led to a revival within independent label sector. While not without their own challenges, indie record labels appear to be experiencing a renaissance, thanks in part to new technologies and media that did not exist 5 years ago. Their nimbleness ...

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News: Technology

Protecting Cultural Norms: How We Project the Present onto the Future

May 25, 2009

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor Let's be clear... In our discussions regarding the traditional album and its future, one might come to the conclusion that some of us think that there will no longer be albums or, at the very least, if you were actually reading, that it's not apparent to some of ...

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News: Technology

Time Magazine Names 10 Top Tech Failures and Music Grabs 3 of Them

May 23, 2009

What Are Your Top 10 Music & Music Tech Failures? Time Magazine named it's 10 Biggest Tech Failures Of The Last Decade, and music and music related industries manage to grab three of the top spots. YouTube - Big doesn't mean profitable and its estimated that the company would ...

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News: Technology

CD Baby to Add Single Song Downloads

May 23, 2009

One complaint about CD Baby's popular indie digital download distribution service has been the inability to sell single song downloads. That's about to change alongside a major site redesign schedule for summer launch. From the blog: “One of the main improvements we're absolutely thrilled about is the addition of single song downloads on cdbaby.com. Just like ...

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News: Music Industry

Brian Eno's Recipe for New Music Business Success

May 23, 2009

"The pressure is on to develop content that isn't easily copyable--so now everything other than the recorded music is becoming the valuable part of what artists sell. “Of course they'll still want to sell their music, but now they'll embed that relatively valueless product within a matrix of hard-to-copy (and therefore valuable) artwork." ...

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News: Radio

Pandora Launches Paid Premium Service

May 22, 2009

After attracting 27 million registered users with its free ad supported custom music streaming service, Pandora has launched its first major push for paid subscriptions with Pandora One. For $36 a year users get six features: All audio and visual ads eliminated Higher quality 192kps streaming 5 hours before timeout. Turn it on and ...

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News: Technology

Deals Pump New Life into Project Playlist (Updated)

May 21, 2009

TotalMusic Acquired and Sony ATV And EMI Publishing Sign On (UPDATED) Project Playlist has yet to complete the required quartet of major label deals, just lost its CEO to MySpace, and is laying off some employees, but two new deals show that the popular service is still very much in the game: ...

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News: Technology

Is Music Marketing Changing to Meet Shifting Internet Usage Patterns?

May 21, 2009

From Teddy Wayne in the New York Times: “Internet use for “short-tail" sites with large audience reach has evolved... from portal-oriented sites, like shopping directories and Internet tools... to social networks, YouTube and providers of niche content. ...the video audience also exceeded the e-mail audience for the first time, and sites with ...

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News: Radio

Pandora Claims Profits Close, Adds Lyrics

May 21, 2009

Pandora will reach profitability in 2010 according to founder Tim Westergren. Revenue is expected to double this year to $40 million thanks to targeted ads delivered to 27 million registered users which are growing at the rate of 50,000 to 60,000. About a third of the growth is coming via its popular ...