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Comment on Digital Music Marketing Is Boring by music business

music business — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:19:00 +0000

I think the 80s sounds will never be beaten.

Comment on Losing Control in The Cloud by Sam McGregor

Sam McGregor — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:51:00 +0000

cheers Duncan, I agree with you 100%, I am totally aware that its not the fault of the services for the pulling of catalogue, its the labels who are responsible. And currently the services have had to agree to harsher terms simply to allow themselves to exist.

I guess for the power to reach the listener, it first has to lie with the service provider to some extent…

Comment on Losing Control in The Cloud by Duncan Geere

Duncan Geere — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:38:00 +0000

I think the biggest mistake people make with cloud music, and you’re kinda doing it above (though not to the extent I’ve seen elsewhere) is blaming the technology companies (and “the cloud”) for the failings of music companies.

Spotify doesn’t want artists removed from its service, but it has no choice — it can’t say to a label: “no, you can’t take that down”. The tech companies have zero bargaining power, because they can’t exist without the music, and the labels know and exploit this to give themselves ridiculously favourable terms that penalise not only the tech company, but also the music listener as a result.

Pulling catalogue is one problem. Exclusivity deals with different services (eg Beatles on iTunes) only make the situation worse.

The single obstruction to that utopian legal music-as-water vision (which has already been delivered by the tech, albeit illegally) isn’t the cloud at all. It’s unfair licensing. We need a compulsory digital license.

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Samantha Crew — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:56:00 +0000

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Comment on Losing Control in The Cloud by Donagh

Donagh — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:31:00 +0000

That’s a very good point. Once they’ve persuaded everybody to switch to subscription services, it would be very simple to remove tracks from the service and then offer them for sale only, at a premium price. Which of course, they will do.

Comment on Losing Control in The Cloud by Tom

Tom — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:51:00 +0000

Good post. I certainly think that the Spotify catalogue has been shrinking for the last 18 months. Catalogues from Dylan, Tom Waits, etc. were all there once, but are now missing.

I think the answer may be around the corner though. A hybrid of a streaming model with cloud storage for those tracks that aren’t available can surely only be a year away, available on multi-device.

Comment on How would you save MySpace? by Jules

Jules — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:58:46 +0000

1) Make the audio player stable so it works every time. Other sites can do it, so MySpace should.

2) Have a direct import of the bands YouTube channel as a defined block.

3) Charge bands/labels £10 (or somesuch) a year for their website. This will do 2 things:
a) get rid of all the chancers, dead bands, stupid nonsense bands etc., meaning that real unknown bands have more chance of being heard.
b) will be paid for by real bands becuase the SEO alone is worth £10 a year. Type any obscure bands name followed by MySpace in google and you'll find their page... worth £10.

4) For free accounts no music player or videos because for some reason people still ant to be friends, and that's fair enough.

5) Separate Friends sections (and in fact rename them) to Friends (for bands/labels... ie: paying accounts) and Fans (ie everyone else) which means users can find other bands they may like, because anyone in the Friend's (ie: bands/labels etc) section have paid and are legitimate.

6) Have a search feature based on the genre tags. More Bands Like This, and rank them by perfect match (3 genres), mid-match (2 genres), low match (1 genre) and make sure the bloody search results are presented cleanly and with sensible filters, such as under 1000 fans, 1000 - 5000 fans, etc., so people who don't give a fuck about Justin Bieber can find unknown bands.

This is all sensible, pragmatic stuff that should have implemented years ago when they realised the only thing they have of TRUE value is their SEO and it's value for bands. But the problem is is that dickhead bean counters get involved who don't have a clue about how things actually work because real life doesn't involve numbers on a spread sheet.

Ultimately though, I hope they don't do this because i love the thought of Murdoch losing half a billion dollars because he hasn't got a fucking clue about the digital age, just buying politicians and peddling football.

We live here by the way: www.eyeseesound.tv

Comment on Free Social Media Icons by Tim [techfruit]

Tim [techfruit] — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:05:51 +0000

I wish designers would add HypeM and Last.fm to these sets. They are all beautiful, but some social music ones would be amazing!

Comment on Free Buttons For All! by Free Social Media Icons | Blog – Good Lizard Media

Free Social Media Icons | Blog – Good Lizard Media — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:01:55 +0000

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Comment on How To Change your Myspace URL by James Manson

James Manson — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:43:49 +0000

Hi David,

I just tried this on our brand new account, and it worked, even though we only just created it. (i.e. post Aug 2009).

So thanks for your tip, and it still works!

James