Today is one of those golden days if you’re an Apple fan boy. The day Steve Jobs gives us updates, news, and goodies about all things Mac. For musicians, the newest update to iLife, and more specifically Garageband will be of particular importance. There’s been a few changes to everyone’s favorite demo program, starting with “Flex Time” which [...]
The Guardian has some more info on Google Music, which launches very, very soon. For $25 a year, consumers will be able to store songs in the cloud and access them on any internet-connected device by either streaming or downloading. For Artists: Google proposes a 50/50 split between itself and the labels (master rights holders), with [...]
It’s been a tough 2010 for Spotify. After wowing users in the UK and EU they’ve found that America is harder to win over. A quick primer; Spotify software allows unlimited streaming of selected music from a multitude of major and independent record labels including many of the majors. But as can be read below, Spotify [...]
Apple is making more waves in the Cloud music world. Via Reuters Apple is in talks with major record labels to provide a subscription-based music service, allowing unlimited access to songs for a monthly fee, the New York Post said, citing unnamed sources. A few weeks ago, Apple VP of Internet services Eddy Cue discussed [...]
And I thought buying beer for NRP meetings was high overhead! Asymco reports that iTunes costs Apple nearly 1 billion dollars each year to run! The details can be read in great length on the Asymco page. But the main point that I took away from the article is that pretty much only Google can take [...]
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So you may have heard this: A ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board tomorrow could spell trouble for Apple’s iTunes. The National Music Publisher’s Association has asked for a 66 percent increase on the royalty rate paid out on the sales of digital music — from nine cents per track to 15 cents. In a [...]
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Josh gave us a heads up about an interesting new music site called The Next Big Sound. The angle that The Next Big Sound takes is that YOU are a LABEL and YOU get to CHOOSE who gets signed. Andrew at Artists House commented that the one of the coolest things about the site is [...]