Music industry softens on podcasts
Sony BMG has decided to dip its toes into the world of podcasted music with its recent agreement with marketing agency Rock River Communications Inc., making it the first (and only, for the time being) major music [...]
20,000 YouTube music videos at your fingertips
20,000 YouTube music videos at your fingertips
UPDATE: The site is no longer online, we suggest you check out Video DownloadHelper. Video DownloadHelper is a FireFox plugin that allows you to download videos from YouTube and save them to your computer.
Click and play 20,000 music videos scraped from YouTube and embedded on one site for some [...]
Stream thousands of Rock N’ Roll concert classics for free on “Wolfgang’s Vault”
The site lets you listen to the tons of concert recordings that the venerable concert promoter Bill Graham collected over his more than 30 years in the music biz, which includes Jimi Hendrix, Santana, The Grateful Dead, and much, much, more.
As always seems the case, a publicized effort to shut down a website has [...]
iPod and MP3 Integration In Vehicles, 2007
Integrating iPod connectivity has been a big issue and selling point with vehicle marketing. I have noticed many commercials talk of iPod or MP3 player compatibility and in addition, bluetooth technology as well.
Audio is a big deal with car owners (even myself) and marketing companies are catching on to the desire to have a [...]
CBS Records Redux: Venerable Music Label Returns Digitally
But corporate parent CBS Corporation announced Friday that it will resurrect the CBS Records brand name. The original CBS Records was sold to Sony in 1988, and its assets are now part of Sony Music Entertainment. The difference this round is the focus. Instead of the eponymous vinyl product, or [...]
Latest MP3 players come equipped with songs
Customers picking up the latest MP3 players this fall are getting much more than just a device. Increasingly, they’re getting free music as well.
To set themselves apart from the pack, manufacturers are preloading content into their players to increase sales–and the music industry is only too happy to oblige.
The Zune from Microsoft, expected this fall, [...]
More Independents to Sell MP3 Albums
Death Metal is not exactly my preferred genre of pop music, but I have to appreciate Open Grave records decision to sell its music in the unencumbered MP3 format. Recently, a number of conference attending record label execs said that there is no way that they will ever consider releasing their music without digital rights [...]
British charity wants warning labels on MP3 players
It’s hard to be hip when your charity’s name includes the words “Royal Institute” and your president is the Rt. Hon. Lord Jack Ashley of Stoke, CH, but the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) is bravely giving it a go with their “Don’t Lose the Music” campaign. They want young people to get [...]
Microsoft Projects Aggressive Portable MP3 Player Demand
Zune may be strongest iPod-killer to date, but is there room for both players to coexist? Apple is currently approaching annual sales volumes of 40 million iPods, and the overall global market for media players is continuing to expand. But how much growth can this sector expect? According to Bryan Lee, corporate vice president of [...]
Juliana Hatfield offers honor system downloads
Popular singer-songwriter Juliana Hatfield, who has spanned from near-punk to glittery-pop over her career, is trying something new via her website.
In a manifesto about file-sharing that calls both the big four and the p2p pirates to the carpet for their own respective sins, a representative for Hatfield lays out a new plan.
“There’s a furor raging [...]
