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Google's Music Service Found by Hackers
FOUND: Google's cloud-based music service. Hackers have exposed that not only does it exist, but it works too. Once the leaked Honeycomb music player is correctly installed on Android, users synced their music libraries to Google's servers. Since the service hasn't been made publically available, they haven't run into any storage limits. Once Google's music cloud ...
News Corp Bets $77m on Beyond Oblivion's Locker
Beyond Oblivion, a new music locker service, has received a massive $77 million investment from News Corp and charity Welcome Trust. Rather than fight the major labels like MP3tunes, Beyond Oblivion plans to buy its way into their heart. It has assured rights holders a $500 million revenue guarantee, and will give between 70% and 90% of its ...
Soundcloud: If Only Playing by the Rules Wasn't Such a Drag...
The daringest startups break all the rules, and people start music companies to shake things up. But sooner or later, growing startups find themselves bowing to the music industry's maze of complicated rules. Everyone needs to get paid, but from theperspective of the entrepreneur and music fan, this can be such a buzzkill. And, it's rarely ...
Kazaa May Benefit from New Apple App Rules
Here's a novel theory: Despite the doom and gloom talk in the subscription music sector now that Apple may take a 30% cut of in-app sign ups, one stock analyst says Kazaa may actually benefit from the new rules. So far, Kazaa has been overlooked in this debate, but John Gilliam thinks the on-demand streaming service ...
Technology is Cooler Than Content, and It's Costing Us Billions...
The content industry has lost its cool, and this is now a major concern for Hollywood as well. Over the past ten years, technology has become the new rock star, and that's affecting everything from consumer behavior to Capitol Hill legislation. Don't believe me? Go tell someone at a party that you work at Google, or ...
Atlantic Records wants to redefine music-label sites
In an age of shrinking music sales and disappearing revenue, Atlantic Records is trying to put all of its resources to work. Take Atlantic's Web site, AtlanticRecords.com, for example. Most label sites offer little more than a list of their acts and some promotional materials, but Atlantic is trying to give visitors a reason to stick ...
$1.25 An Hour - The Biggest Music Download Ever...
Disclaimer: This may not be the biggest music download ever, but it's big. A classical music label in the UK has released The Complete Piano Music, by Franz Liszt; it's a digital version of a 99-CD box set. The download weighs in at about 26GB for the FLAC download, and 12GB for the MP3s. In total, ...
Apple in Negotiations to Offer Unlimited Downloads, Move Could Cement iTunes Dominance
Apple is in talks with all four major record companies to offer unlimited downloads of purchased music. This would enable iTunes customers to sync their music across different Apple devices. While the labels have been reluctant to grant multiple download rights previously, Apple's relatively closed eco-sytem could offer them a level of comfort. Is This DRM ...
Echo Nest and Columbia University Release Free Million Song Dataset
A free Million Song Dataset has been released in an effort to empower the creativity of music software developers. To get the massive project off the ground, The Echo Nest provided the music analysis and metadata, Columbia University's LabROSA (Laboratory for the Recognition and Organization of Speech and Audio) did the research, Infochimps is handling the ...
Rhapsody to Offer 60-Day Free Trial - Will It Work?
Through March, Rhapsody is offering a 60-day free trialof its on-demand music service. This huge promotion comes by way of MTV Networks. Until last April, MTV was a part owner of Rhapsody. They, however, went independent and as part of the spin-out, MTV agreed to provide Rhapsody with $33 million in free advertising. MTV will be ...
