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No More Auto-Play

MySpace is known for its clutter. I think that is one reason many people moved to the ‘cleaner’ Facebook network. In addition to the advertising, the user is always bombarded with music the moment a page is entered into on MySpace. Well, not anymore. You see, every time one of those songs starts to auto-play, [...]

We7 Live

We7 is officially out of beta format. We7 is the website that ran with the business model of having ad-supported song and album streams. Peter Gabriel is a founder, investor, and board member. The site has a catalog of over 3 million licensed songs from all 4 major labels as well as some of the [...]

The Online Royalty Deal

If you like complicated puzzles, then the online music royalty situation is right up your alley. A major royalty deal for streaming and limited downloads of music was announced this past week. Online music services, music publishers, and the recording industry all took part to come up with this deal. The deal concluded with the [...]

Pandora

I few weeks I blogged about Pandora and the fact that they were fighting upcoming increases in streaming licenses. Pandora is a site that streams new music to you based upon artists that you currently enjoy. Pandora has been wildly successful, especially as of late with millions downloading the iPhone application for personalized streaming music. [...]

Music Middle Class

New music website startups are making things easier for new musical groups. Last.fm just announced that they will begin paying streaming royalties to artists who don’t have record deal or an affiliation with a collecting society. So as a new artist, you can place your music up on Last.fm. If it gets played, you get [...]

Seeqpod’s Defense

I often wonder about the legality of some of the new music social networking sites. One new site to the scene, Seeqpod, allows you to compile a playlist of streaming music. Say you type in ‘Free Fallin John Mayer version,’ you will have some audio & video options found on the internet. You can then [...]

Musician Compensation

How will artists get paid in this shakeup within the music industry? Yesterday, I wrote about the Songza website where apparently Songza pays for licenses from all of the major performing rights organizations. And artists are getting paid from itunes and amazon sales, around 14% of the price. Now, the major labels are proposing a [...]