Posts Tagged ‘internet’

Pandora can’t make money, may pull the plug

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Pandora, one of the Internet’s most popular streaming radio stations, may have to close its doors due to significant royalty payments owed to the music industry. One more last-ditch effort could save the day, but even Pandora’s founder isn’t optimistic.

There's no doubt that SoundExchange has been strong-arming the Internet radio industry into oblivion. But most Internet radio stations like Pandora offer their services for free, or they offer accounts with more features at incredibly…

Listening Post’s Top 10 Hottest Music Sites | Listening Post from Wired.com

Monday, July 7th, 2008

We've assembled a list of the 10 hottest digital music websites in the world. Criteria were simple and admittedly subjective: Sites were chosen based not only on what they currently do for music fans, but also on their potential to impact the future development of the music industry.

CloudTrade combines some of the biggest trends in music: ad-supported content, cellphones and social networks. Although the company has only signed deals with a few labels, its potential is huge — especially in the youth market. Kids…

5 Most Ridiculous International Music Acts [w/ videos]

Friday, June 13th, 2008

When you see videos like this youre just happy that even though we elect our idols with text message votes, we have laws against most of this stuff to prevent it from happening here.

Psyche, meet your worst nightmare: Adrian Munsey, British…musician? Shepherd? Who the hell knows. But before you go making fun of the guy, consider two things: One, he does one hell of a sheep impersonation, and two, maybe, just maybe, we…

Metallica to bloggers: don’t review our music

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Metallica demands that early reviews of six tracks from its new album be removed… after the band invites journalists to come listen to them.

Metallica's management and PR team knew who the (anonymous) writer of the piece was, as they invited him; if they chose to do so, they could probably make his livelihood more difficult to earn in the future. The Quietus decided to…

U2 Manager: Ad-supported Music is Beneath Musicians

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Paul McGuinness, manager of U2, used his talk at the Music Matters conference in Hong Kong to call on ISPs to “embrace the future.” That future apparently includes handing revenues over to the music business, but leaves out ad-supported music.

But even as he wants to see more payment for artists, McGuiness rejected one model that has worked on the Internet—ad-supported content—because he feels it is beneath musicians. He's quoted as saying he does not…

Under the DMCA, YouTube is not required to verify the entity making a request is actually the copyright holder

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Prince sang Radiohead's “Creep” at Coachella
Fan recorded it, posted to YouTube, Prince's label had it taken down
Radiohead disagrees with idea; band released most recent album online

Prince fans have organized to urge him to relent in his legal fights to control images and photographs of himself. As of Thursday, the most popular YouTube clip about Prince playing "Creep" is an expletive-laden rant from Sam…

The Top 1000 Most Popular Artists and Songs on the Web

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Every six hours the Sound Index crawls some of the biggest music sites on the internet - Bebo, MySpace, Last.FM, iTunes, Google and YouTube - to find out what people are writing about, listening to, watching, downloading and logging on to. It then counts and analyses this data to make an instant list of the most popular 1000 artists and tracks…

Discography and biography information is sourced from Musicbrainz and Wikipedia

The LOLrus is actually an elephant seal, and he died in 2005. The truth hurts.

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Minazo was brought to Japan from Uruguay in 1995. The seal soon mastered a variety of comical feats, including a popular stunt in which he held a bucket with one flipper while sticking out his tongue.

The 11-year-old male, 4.5-meters long and weighing about 2 tons, was the largest seal ever raised by a Japanese aquarium. The animal died Tuesday after its appetite began to rapidly weaken the day before, officials said. The cause of…

RIAA: piracy fight more important than ‘Net neutrality bill

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

As the House Committee on Energy and Commerce considers the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, testimony from the interested parties reveals that opinions on ‘Net neutrality may tell us more about those doing the testifying than what a neutral ‘Net entails. For the ISPs, at least, it appears that neutrality is a threat to their ability to innovate

Telcos, not surprisingly, beg to differ. Kyle McSlarrow, president of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, was one of the witnesses testifying, and his past testimony regarding a similar Senate bill reveal that he's…

SkreemR - Audio Search

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Mp3 Search. A g00gle of mp3.
I found some regional songs too.
Features one AudioRank, pretty helpful.

var addthis_pub = 'NLDCIO2VPHTV2HSK'; over 5 million mp3 files indexed!