Say Goodbye to Tyranny of Hits
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Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bit stream. By Chris Anderson from Wired magazine.
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Virgin is calling it quits in the digital music business. The company has stopped selling tracks and accepting new customers as of Friday, and will shut down for good on October 19.
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The British Department for Education and Skills (DfES) recently launched a "Music Manifesto" campaign, with the ostensible intention of educating the next generation of British musicians. Unfortunately, they also teamed up with the music industry (EMI, and various artists) to make this popular. EMI has apparently negotiated their end well, so that children in our schools will now be indoctrinated about the illegality of downloading music.The ignorance and audacity of this got to me a little, so I wrote an open letter to the DfES about it. Unfortunately, it's pedantic, as I suppose you have to be when writing to goverment representatives. But I hope you find it useful, and perhaps feel inspired to do something similar, if or when the same thing has happened in your area.
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The CD will stay the most popular music format until at least the end of the decade when digital music will begin to challenge its crown, says a new survey.
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The old-school audiophile's format of choice is making a quiet comeback. Record sales are climbing as fans turn to vinyl for high-end home listening while continuing to buy MP3s for portability. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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Reviewing iTunes 7 and the new line of iPods, David Pogue writes for the New York Times, you can&#146;t &#147;find a better online music store, or a free jukebox program as powerful and clean as iTunes. And you certainly won&#146;t find a music player that beats the new iPods in polish, capacity or even price. They come dazzlingly close to perfection.&#148;
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By Jefferson Graham  LOS ANGELES -- The music industry is looking ahead to life without copy protection.
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the world's second largest music company, will this month become the last of the big four majors to drop copy protection software on music downloads, also known as digital rights management (DRM).
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Last.fm will allow users to select any of 3.5 million songs to listen to on their computers, up to three times for free.
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If you want to get rid of troublemaking youths, play them some Cliff Richard songs, a funfair has found.
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Revisiting the best online music store for indie fans.
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Last.FM, the free online radio service owned by CBS, will let users listen to any of 3.5 million songs on demand, paid for with advertising. The key limit: each user can only listen to each song 3 times.
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After years as the unrivalled king of the digital-media world, the venerable MP3 music format is losing ground to rival technologies from Microsoft and Apple.
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My New Yearâs resolution was to clear out the electronic junk. Or some of it, at least.
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The legal action is the latest bid by the music industry to wrest back control over content.
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WASHINGTON  --  Exasperated listeners weary of hearing the same songs over and over on the radio may have something to cheer about in a pair of innovative deals that could shake up the music playlists of some of the nation's largest radio-station chains.
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The latest version of Hymn can already remove DRM protection from songs purchased from the iTunes 7 store to enable playback on non-iPod players.  In Listening Post.