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Tunecore's Jeff Price on Going Direct to iTunes
Jeff Price, CEO of TuneCore, responds to a recent post on Digital Music News. This posting is not about me trying to drum up business for TuneCore. Rather, a recent music blog ran a factually incorrect and incomplete story about how artists can “go direct" with digital stores like iTunes. It's frustrating to see wrong information being stated ...
EMI vs. Mp3Tunes Lawsuit Could Help Make Google Music and iTunes in the Cloud a Reality
Mp3Tunes and MP3.com founder Michael Robertson wrote in on Thanksgiving morning to comment on our post New Label Piracy Concerns Could Force Google Music To Delay Christmas Launch saying: “If we prevail (in court vs. EMI) then Google doesn't need a license and neither does Apple." Of course, one court battle usually leads to another. But ...
What is Twitter and the Evolving Music Industry
This week on Music Think Tank, we explored the meaning of Twitter and related monkeys to the music industry. Bruce Warila posed the question: What is Twitter? Twitter describes itself as “The best way to discover what's new in your world," but what is Twitter to you? Ariel Hyatt highlighted an interesting post from her Music ...
Why Facebook's New Messaging System Could Hurt Music Marketing
Yesterday, Facebook announced their own “modern messaging system" that combines email, text messaging, and instant messages into a single stream that founder Mark Zuckerberg says goes well “beyond email." The new service, which will debut Monday with an iPhone app and roll out over the next few months, mimics the behavior of teens who are already ...
MP3 Player on Steroids vs. Radio on Crack Cocaine
Rhapsody has enabled offline playback for Android users. Most interesting though, is the quote contained within the press release, wherein chief product officer Brendan Benzing says that he believes “all the music you could ever want should be at your fingertips at all times." In contrast, Steve Purdham at We7 suggests otherwise. He's received feedback from ...
3 Major Innovations That Made Large-Scale Music Collaboration Possible Online
Central to the founding ideology of Indaba Music is the notion of collaboration; they strive to empower musicians with the means to network and make music together. Since 2007 the website has grown to harbor over 500,000 musicians—from amateurs, who make music for the love of the craft, to Grammy Award winners, who've created music on ...
Wireless Sheet Music Page Turner App Now Available on iTunes App Store
Black & White Software LLC, the makers of iGigBook have released a wireless page turner app to compliment their iGigBook sheet music reader app for the iPad. iGBPager turns an iPhone or iPod Touch into a wireless page turner. It uses Bluetooth or Wi-Fi to wirelessly connect an iPhone running iGBPager with an iPad running iGigBook. ...
Big Facebook, Myspace Joint Announcement Today
(Updated) MySpace and Facebook will make a major joint announcement at Noon PST today according to a press invitation sent last night. Mike Jones, CEO of MySpace, and Dan Rose, VP of partnerships and platform marketing for Facebook will be handling the presentation, but no other details were offered. Several sources are pointing towards increased integration ...
Artist Websites Are Important. but Mobile-Optimized Websites and Apps Might Be More Important...
“A website is important, and I'm not suggesting any artist today simply forego having one. But, it's not the future. It is what was important yesterday, and is quickly being replaced." Michael Schneider, Mobile Roadie, on midemblog November 8th. Do you agree with this statement? Or, does the concept of an 'artist website' transcend the desktop, ...
