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iPhone & Pandora

I was riding in the car yesterday with a good friend of mine. I asked him if he had heard a particular Pearl Jam song. He said no and the conversation continued in a different direction. And it dawned on me that by the very next day, once I had my brand new iPhone, I [...]

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 [...]

Major Labels & Startups

It’s easy to point fingers at the record industry and chide them for plain stupidity. Yeah, they completely missed the boat, but on the other hand, their whole business model was set on artist development and the sale of cd’s. That means all of the contracts, the corporate structure, and the company culture all pointed [...]

Cloud Streaming

There is a very popular concept called cloud computing that is already being realized in many ways. Cloud computing is that as broadband capabilities and storage space online increases, we will move from storing our files online as opposed to a computer. Therefore, the computer basically because a browser instead of a hard drive. It [...]

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 [...]

Streaming Music

I’ve been spending some time on Songza today. Songza allows you to search by song title or artist to listen to any song. Songza pays all the major performing rights organizations who then pay the songwriters and publishers the appropriate rate based upon song play. This site brings up some important points about the future [...]

Sonific Snuffed

There was a casualty today with the online widget playing start-up Sonific. Sonific allowed the user to add a widget to play music on their Facebook profile, blog, or website. The user could then choose what songs to play from the Sonific library which included over 200k songs. Obviously, the bigger the library, the more [...]