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Forecast Predicts Strong Digital Download Growth
At present there are 105.4m paid users of digital music in North America. A new forecast predicts that number will grow to 227.2m by 2014. As well, it argues that the number of paid download users in the US and Canada—from the period of 2010 to 2014—will increase from 105.4m to 227.2m. However, they expect that ...
The Basics of Remixing, Part One: Time-Stretching Vocals
Welcome to the latest installment of Production Tips, our new monthly feature offering, well, production tips, hosted by Simon Langford. In the first part of this three part series on remixing, I am going to give you an overview of one of its biggest challenges: time-stretching vocals. The higher up one goes on the remixing food ...
Think the iPad is Just a Toy? Then You Haven't Checked out This Licensing App...
B2B music licensing remains a hyper-competitive niche, and that spells lots of innovation and low-cost licensing for producers. Sure, sync licenses are moving southward, though the upside is that more independent artists can slot their content into films, ads, and other visual content. Also, producers can now get their licenses fast. But what happens when you're ...
The First Ipad Street Musician?
Well, this is a case of 'it was bound to happen.' Yet the idea of a street musician playing a sitar on an iPad is still very intriguing. According to Alex Shpil, the publisher of the video, she used the Seline HD app and was also recording the sound using binaural microphones. Does the fact that ...
Giga Tools Launches, a New Event Management Tool; 25 Free Accounts Offered to Hypebot Readers
GigaTools is a promotional tool for DJ's, musicians, record labels and booking agents to manage, promote and share their event schedules online. Artists can integrate their events schedule with any number of sites and social networks. Management and agents can maintain multiple schedules for their roster in one interface and ensure that all upcoming events are ...
The Cloud Challenge: Would You Survive, or Totally Freak Out?
Can music fan survive on cloud alone? Could you survive? Or, would you go scampering for your iPod, your gapingly-large hard drive, your oh-so-familiar local iTunes collection? Could you last a week on Rdio, Spotify, orGrooveshark alone, mixed in with some Pandora perhaps? Or, even Google Music or a cloud-enabled iTunes in the near future? Or ...
Enter Your Musical Narrative: What Song is Playing?
This is a guest post byAlex Mann (@alexjmann). You are greeted with a smile and repetitive hello by the stewardess as you roll your bag out of the flimsy, makeshift tunnel and onto the plane. Approaching your seat, you force your piece of luggage into the overhead bin closest to your row. You glance at your ticket, ...
An Audience with an Audience: What Digital Technologies Are Changing About Live Music
Traditionally, when journalists write about the widening of the digital divide, what they're talking about is the gap between those who have access to digital technologies and those that don't. As a recent article in The Wall Street Journal points out, that's no longer the case. In this context, the rift that they're speaking of relates ...
Want More Fans? Buy a Twitter "Promoted Account"
(UPDATED) Want more fans? At a tech conference today, Twitter will reportedly announce an approved and sanctioned way to collect. Just buy a newly created Promoted Account, and Twitter will try to help increase your Twitter following. Their method is to insert you alongside other Twitter users it suggests in its “Who to Follow" feature. Just ...
BitTorrent Asks Artists to Get in Bed with the Devil
BitTorrent has created a pilot program that encourages musicians to submit their creative works for the chance to be spotlighted on their site, which reaches over 80 million music enthusiasts around the world. Course, for all you know, your works might already be in their promotional network that distributes music globally at baffling speeds. With their ...
