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Last.FM Introduces Listening Clock Feature
And Incorporates Time Into Music Recommendations. Music recommendation is fairly straightforward, at a time, when our consumption habits clearly aren't. The general, algorithmic approach takes the stance that users who played a song in accordance with another in high volume will likely enjoy a song that other users have voted as being most-relevant in the progression ...
5 Traits That Ping Might Reveal About Your Friends
(That You Didn't Want To Know) With Apple's big announcement last week that iTunes will now be integrated with a social network—based around music discovery — called Ping, its worth reflecting on why, as cool as it sounds, that it may not be the best thing that ever happened to your life. To review, Ping is like ...
What Happened at Music Hack Day London
This post is from Hilke Ros (@hilkeros)at Motion Music Manager. Last Saturday, the 8th Music Hack Day kicked off in London. Music Hack Day is a gathering of software developers and coders working on music related projects. Since July 2009 all the smartest minds in music technology come together to hack on small projects that might ...
Shazam Suddenly Wants More Recognition...
Shazam is a necessity for some app-toting music fans, though even the savviest users can miss a tune. The reason is simple: songs are typically a few minutes long, and that means they often end before a recognition can me made. The solution? Shazam's latest batch of iPhone and iPod touch updates actually enable tagging on ...
Apple's Ping Grabs 1 Million Users in 48 Hours
iTune's new social network Ping is drawing a lot of criticism for its lack of connectivity to other networks (Facebook shut Ping out) and a profile system that limits access for many indie artists. Still, less than 48 hours since its launch on Wednesday, more than one million users had joined Ping, according to Apple. “One-third ...
Echo Nest and 7digital Partner to Offer Developers Online Music Retail Platform
The Echo Nest and digital distributor 7digital have formed a partnership to offer developers access to The Echo Nest's music intelligence APIs and 7digital's 10M track catalog in 32 territories across Europe and North America. Developers can create retail music websites and apps that tap into the Echonest API for artist and song similarity, song attributes ...
iTunes Ping Draws Fire from Facebook and Indie Music Community
Discontent and controversies are continuing to grow regarding iTunes' new social network Ping just two days after its launch. A hands on tour of Ping by ars technica showed promise, but some features are confusing and leave much to be desired. The biggest battle is the Apple-Facebook friction that erupted (NY Times) and lead to Facebook ...
iTunes Says Artist Profiles on Ping Invitation Only
Say what you will about iTune's new social network Ping, but it's going to be a great place to market music. So imagine the frustration of the many indie artists—many of who are selling music on iTunes—when they learned that there was no obvious way to create an an artist profile in Ping. Apple Responds: “By ...
Some Initial Thoughts on iTunes 10, Ping and Yesterday's Apple Music Announcements
It will take some time to digest exactly what the announcements that Steve Jobs made yesterday mean to artists and the music industry, but here are a few initial reactions: It amazes me just how far in front of the curve Apple always is. And yet on closer examination, what they announce as revolutionary is almost ...
Bandpage Provides Performance Royalties to Artists on Facebook
(UPDATED) BandPage is a free Facebook app that streamlines the online presence of artists within the social network. The app and music resource developer RootMusic behind the app has created a YouTube tracks feature that enables musicians to collect royalties with each play of their song through their BandPage media player on Facebook. Also, RootMusic has ...
