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Zenph Gets $10.7m for Musical Re-Performances
Badly done cover versions may soon become a thing of the past. Why am I not rejoicing? Zenph Sound Innovations has created a technology that turns music into data “to understand and precisely recreate musical performances" and secured $10.7 million to develop and promote it. The processes turns audio recordings into data sets. Zenph captures musical ...
M Music and Musicians: A New Magazine Launches in the Middle of the Recession
M Music & Musicians, a new multi-genre print music magazine, is set to to launch in January. In addition to traditional newsstand sales, M will be shipped with customer purchases made through major online musical gear retailer Sweetwater guaranteeing a built-in distribution of 160,000 starting with the first issue. M MUSIC & ...
U.S. Consumers Less Willing to Pay for Online News
Consumers are willing to pay about $5 per month to receive online news, but readers in the United States are less likely to pay up than their European counterparts, and a subscription model will not exactly be the newspaper industry's saving grace, according to a Monday report from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). BCG interviewed 5,000 ...
'Unfriend' Selected as Word of the Year
The New Oxford American Dictionary chose a rather unfriendly word for its 2009 word of the year: unfriend. The definition is obviously familiar to those who use Facebook, where the phrase originated: “To remove someone as a 'friend' on a social networking site such as Facebook," the authors said. No word if the Twitter equivalent, “unfollow," ...
Apple Patent Could Embed Ads in OS
Apple review, Apple commentary, Apple news... Everything Apple The New York Times reports on an Apple patent that was disclosed last month (the same day as the Windows 7 launch, incidentally) that would embed ads within the Apple OS, possibly as a way of subsidizing its hardware. The claims are eye-opening: “A computer-implemented method for providing ...
Percussionist Fred Scott Launches New Web Site
Percussionist Fred Scott has launched his new website at fredscottjazz.com. The new site includes calendar information, photos, press quotes, links and more. A few words from Fred Scott I have been playing percussion since 1959 and piano since 1980. I have traveled all over the United States, learning rhythms, from New Orleans. I've worked and studied ...
Pop Singer Stephen Michael Thornton Launches Innovative Fan-Site; Free Download for All Website Visitors!
New York, NY: Following his digital debut last month, pop singer STEPHEN MICHAEL THORNTON has just unveiled his new fan-site. Designed to be the 'home base' connecting all his social networking fans, STEPHEN'S site features easily accessible links to his Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace accounts, as well as a direct link to his recently released singles ...
As Spotify Stalls, MOG May Have U.S. All to Itself
Word came yesterday that Spotify had to delay its promised before the end of the year U.S. launch. Behind the delay is Spotify's inability of license music at a price that they can afford given their freemium (free basic and paid premium) model. Just as the labels have discovered that Spotify and music streaming appears to ...
Would You Pay for Myspace?
MySpace Music is “almost certainly" going to restrict free streaming and move to a paid model says TechCrunch citing multiple sources. “They are spending $20 million/month on streaming royalties, and that just isn't sustainable," said one source. Many believed that MySpace Music was immune in part because it is co-owned with the major label groups.
