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  music is for playing

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  70 days ago in the Wordpress of Lucas Gonze · Authority: 54

  Guitar Tutorials Rocket Up iTunes Podcast Charts: Chord books and music lessons still sell, but for visual learners, the best option is probably the video tutorial. of the top 20 podcasts offered by iTunes, six are iVideosongs tutorials. The second most
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  OPP

  http://earfarm.blogspot.com/2008/05/opp_16.html
  70 days ago in EAR FARM :: music information helps grow ears · Authority: 218

  The Guardian blog talks about the subtle art of selecting supporting bands New hope for accused file-sharer in RIAA suit Konami introduces Rock Revolution video game to compete with Guitar Hero and Rock Band The Seattle Times profiles Reggie Watts
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  Top-10 вебсайтов цифровой музыки

  http://blogimira.ru/top-10-vebsajtov-cifrovoj-muzyki/
  17 days ago in Международная блогопанорама · Authority: 52

  Хорошей музыки много не бывает. Я уже публиковала Top-60 вебсайтов бесплатной музыки. Сегодня посмотрим на Top-10 вебсайтов цифровой музыки, который был составлен Eliot Van Buskirk (Wired.com Listening Post). Эти списки по нескольким позициям перекликаются, наверно, потому что составители ставили перед собой разные задачи. В первом случае был составлен список популярных сайтов, а во втором - блоггера интересовал фактор перспективного влияния того или иного сайта на музыку будущего. Изменения - единственная константа в музыкальном бизнесе, и это вдвойне верно для музыкального бизнеса с использованием цифровых технологий. По каким критериям был составлен этот список? Они просты и откровенно субъективны. В список были включены сайты не только по признаку сегодняшней популярности, но и их потенциального влияния на развитие музыкальной индустрии в будущем. (Порядок алфавитный).  Imeem - сеть музыкальных поклонников и исполнителей, обмен музыкой, видео и фото. Единственная претензия - доступно только 30 секунд композиции. Регистрация. Изменения - это единственная константа в музыкальном бизнесе, и это вдвойне верно для музыкального бизнеса с использованием цифровых технологий. IVideoSongs - может показаться странным включение этого сайта в список, но по мнению автора, этот сайт будет полезен тем, кому нужны видео-уроки игры на гитаре. Часть из них можно скачать бесплатно, за другие нужно внести небольшую оплату. Максимальная оплата - 10 долларов за уроки, которые дает автор композиции, или тот, кто имеет отношение к этому (например, сын Джорджа Мартина учит песням Битлз). Музыкальное обучение в режиме онлайн имеет огромный потенциал, а гитара является лидером в этом направлении. Поэтому этот ресурс занимает лидирующие позиции. В мае 6 из Top-20 подкастов в магазине iTunes были уроками сайта iVideosong. У сайта есть соглашения на лицензии от 5 крупнейших муыкальных издателей, имеются контракты и с менее крупными компаниями. Видео высокого разрешения - для просмотра на компьютерах, iPods и др. Omnifone - это музыкальный сервис Великобритании. Он дает подписчикам (за небольшую ежемесячную плату)-пользователям мобильных телефонов возможность безлимитного доступа к скачиванию музыкальных композиций (более 1 миллиона). Также можно подписаться на обновление новостей в зависимости от ваших предпочтений. Есть сеть. Обмен музыкой. Этот ресурс пока не доступен в США, но идет работа по продвижению этого сайта, и вероятно, ежемесячный членский взнос будет около $7.50. MOG - ежемесячно этот сайт посещает около 1 миллиона людей, недавно появилась опция текстов песен и видео. Здесь нет возможности послушать музыку без оплаты взноса, но можно найти много видео, удобная навигация по сайту, дизайн и возможности для общения на музыкальные темы, поэтому этот сайт и был включен в Top-10. Muxtape - Можно задать вопрос - почему так мало опций? Почему нет поиска? Почему нельзя настроить плейер? Почему шрифт такой большой? Ответ прост - много сайтов предлагают функции, которыми пользуются очень редко. Muxtape делает только одно, и делает это очень хорошо - дает возможность за минуты создавать в режиме онлайн композиции в формате Mp3, и для этого не нужно быть экспертом или иметь много терпения. Несмотря на некоторые проблемы на начальном этапе, у этого сайта большое будущее. RCRD LBL - этот сайт был создан основателями Engadget and Gizmodo совместно с Downtown Records. Получилсят классный сайт бесплатной музыки, он объединяет в себе два основных направления - блоги и бесплатная музыка. Здесь за песню исполнителям и аранжировщикам платят фиксированную ставку максимум до 5 тысяч долларов, а затем предлагают пользователям бесплатное скачивание Mp3, видео, виджеты, радио, каталог. Администрация вебсайта в настоящее время ведет переговоры с другими независимыми музыкальными блогами по расширению сферы влияния. Seeq Pod - представьте себе невидимую сеть, которая может накрыть рыбу даже в самых потаенных уголках мирового океана… Это то, что делает Seeq Pod для музыки. Этот вебсайт бороздит просторы Интернет-океана в поиках новых музыкальных ресурсов. Есть опция простого поиска, информация о новинках и интерфейс iPhone, позволяющий превратить интернет в музыкальную коллекцию для вашего iPhone. Также можно вставить playlist SeeqPod везде, где применяется HTML. Sellaband / SlicethePie - Парадоксальный факт: чем больше люди тратят время для получения музыки, тем больше музыкальных фанатов вкладывает свои деньги в группы. Достигнув определенного уровня, группы начинают использовать деньги инвесторов от 30 до 50 тысяч долларов для записи и выпуска альбома. Инвесторы не только получают копию альбома, они получают доход от продажи альбома. Sellaband - это первая компания, которая начала практиковать такой подход, но SlicethePie также включен в этот список, потому что у них несколько другая стратегия. TuneCore - если вам когда-нибудь приходилось пробираться через дебри iTunes, то вам просто необходим TuneCore. Он помогает передавать музыкальные композиции на iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, eMusic. Компания TuneCore недавно выпустила API, который позволяет распространять музыку в цифровом варианте, по всему миру. YouTube - а разве это не видео-сайт? Однажды кто-то из любителей цифровой музыки сказал: “Если нужен лучший музыкальный сервис в мире, то идите на YouTube и закройте глаза”. И он был прав. Ни один из лучших музыкальных сайтов мира не будет полным без YouTube (потому что у него есть лицензии на право размещения музыки). Ссылки по теме: Споемте, друзья? 60 сайтов бесплатной музыки Related posts No related posts.
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  Listening Post’s Top 10 Hottest Music Sites

  http://5olio.com/blog/?p=509
  18 days ago in 5olio website · Authority: 6

  Image via Wikipedia Imeem You may have noticed that we use imeem’s music-embedding feature quite a bit when covering music on the Listening Post blog. This is not because we have some sort of business deal in place with them; imeem is simply the best option we’ve found for embedding music without worrying about getting permission from a label. In most cases, we’re able to find a full song or two to embed from their catalog. Our only quibble with this system is that they only allow 30 seconds of certain songs to be embedded, and there’s no way to tell until you preview the post. There’s a lot more to imeem than just their blog strategy, of course, which is so powerful in part due to the company’s deals with all four major labels for free, on-demand music. The site also includes social networking features, videos and loads of free music. And even songs that can only be embedded as a 30-second version stream in their entirety if you play them while you’re signed in to imeem. Imeem Signs Deal With Universal, Now Streams All Four Major Labels for Free Study: Imeem Unseats Yahoo as Top U.S. Music-Streaming Site (Updated) Imeem Opens Its Massive Media Catalog to Third Parties IMeem to Allow Label-Sanctioned Music on User Slideshows IVideoSongs This may seem like an odd choice, but bear with me. IVideosongs is one of a handful of new sites that teach the guitar online through the video medium. Demand is only growing for these sites, as the Guitar Hero and Rock Band videogames spawn a new generation of axe-wielding would-be shredders. Some of their tutorials are free, others cost small fee. At the high end of the price scale ($10), you’ll find songs being taught by the person who wrote them, or who was associated with their recording (George Martin’s son teaches Beatles songs on the site, for instance). Online music education has huge potential, and the guitar is at the forefront of the movement for a number of reasons. From what we’ve seen, iVideoSongs is currently the best option out there. In May, six of the top 20 podcasts in the iTunes store were iVideosongs tutorials. The site has licensing deals in place with the big five music publishers as well as smaller music publishers. Their high-definition videos play full screen on a computer or on iPods and other portable devices. Guitar Tutorials Rocket Up iTunes Podcast Charts Guitar Hero Is a Gateway Drug Omnifone This UK-based music service charges cellphone subscribers a low monthly fee for unlimited access to over a million tracks from their phones. This is a fine deal as it is, but we like the frosting too: a feature that tailors your news feeds based on the artists you listen to the most, and a social networking feature that lets you share tracks with your friends. When I tested Omnifone’s MusicStation service, the company fronted the expensive roaming fees required for me to test the service from America, using a phone its CEO Rob Lewis delivered to me in person. Although the service is not yet available in the United States, Lewis said he is in talks with labels about rolling the service out here. He expects the U.S. version of the service to cost less than a current monthly Rhapsody subscription — around $7.50 per month. Hands-On With Omnifone’s Unlimited Cellphone Music Service Omnifone to Launch iPhone Killer Music Download Service Free All-You-Can-Download Cellphone Services Can’t Replace P2P Celestial Jukebox Arrives, But Is It Any Good? MOG I actually don’t use this site, but it’s not because I don’t like it. After a full day of covering music and digital music news on Listening Post, it wouldn’t make sense to spend my free time blogging about music on MOG. But the one million or so people who visit MOG each month have been writing up a storm, and the site recently added lyrics and a video hub to give them even more to talk about. According to a MOG spokeswoman, some of its users are gaining netfame, like indiepixie, whose MOG profile currently lists her MOG meter status as “blazing.” The site also offers a smattering of celebrity bloggers including Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, Questlove of The Roots and Greg Saunier of Deerhoof, but their posting schedule is far slacker than those of MOG’s non-touring users. You can’t listen to much music on the site without a Rhapsody account, but its plentiful YouTube videos make up for that to a certain extent, and the site’s navigation, design and proliferation of music-oriented communication features were enough to put it on our list. MOG 2.0’s YouTube Mash-up: “What MTV Should Have Become” MOG Adds Lyrics, Interviews, Blog Tools MOG Integrates Rhapsody for Full-Track Playback MOG Blogs: Bringing Artists and Fans Closer Together Muxtape Some might look at Muxtape and wonder why its features are so limited. Why can’t I search? Why can’t I customize the look of the player? And why are the fonts so big? The thing is, there are hordes of sites out there that offer more functions than most people will ever use. Muxtape does one thing, and it does it very, very well: It allows people to create online MP3 mix tapes in a matter of minutes, no expertise or hassle tolerance required. Despite servers crashing when the site first launched and a subsequent loss of a small percentage of newly created mixes, the site is back on track and has plenty of room for expansion. Muxtape’s creator told us that while he won’t rule out advertising completely, he plans to keep Muxtape super simple in subsequent releases, which is good news for anyone who likes to share music without jumping through hoops. Muxtape Keeps the Mixtape Concept Alive Interview: Justin Ouellette, the Man Behind Muxtape Muxtape Is Down, Small Percentage of Mixes Lost (Updated) MuxFind Lets You Search and Discover on Muxtape RCRD LBL When the guy who founded Engadget and Gizmodo joins forces with the guy who runs Downtown Records, one would expect interesting things to happen. Indeed, RCRD LBL, the joint venture between Peter Rojas and Josh Deutsch, is gaining traction among music fans who want free music. Their site merges two major online trends, blogs and free music, in a way that gets everybody paid. RCRD LBL pays recording artists and remixers a flat fee for a song ranging up to $5,000, and then offers free MP3 downloads, streams, widgets and radio stations using the resulting music catalog to its users. As I wrote back when they launched, “how they make money from that is their business” (through advertising and sponsorships). The company is in the process of banding with a few other independent music-oriented blogs to present a larger chunk of pageviews for advertisers. RCRD LBL Solves the Free Music Riddle Interview: Peter Rojas of RCRD LBL RCRD LBL Slated for an Nov. 15 Launch Five Reasons MP3 Blogs Could Be the Next Record Labels SeeqPod Imagine a big, invisible net that could haul in all of the fish that are hiding under various rocks and crags of the world’s oceans … except the fish stay just where they are, despite the fact that you get as many fish as you want. That’s basically what SeeqPod does for music. It scours the net for MP3s in all sorts of locations, presenting them through a simple search box, a moving tracker that showcases the site’s latest discoveries and an iPhone interface that turns the internet into a music collection for your iPhone. In addition, you can embed SeeqPod playlists anywhere HTML is used. As with many innovators before it, SeeqPod is currently staring down a major-label lawsuit. But as a directory that doesn’t host any music, it would appear to have certain legal protections. SeeqPod iPhone Button Allows Instant Access to Free Music Warner Music Group’s Complaint Against SeeqPod SeeqPod Widget Lets You Embed Music From a Massive Catalog for Free Play the Internet’s Hidden Music on your iPhone for Free Sellaband/SlicethePie Paradoxically, as more people seem to be investing time rather than money to acquire music, a growing number of fans are ponying up cold hard cash to invest in bands themselves. Once they reach a certain level of fan investment, bands on Sellaband and SlicethePie get to use a pool of their inverstors’ money ranging from $30,000 to $50,000 to record and market an album. Not only do investors get a copy of that album, but they see a return on album sales and can trade shares in bands as they would a company’s stock. Sellaband was the first company to pioneer this approach, but we’re including SlicethePie here too, since the companies employ slightly different approaches. Your Next Investment: An Indie Rock Band? Slicethepie Vows to Fund More New Bands Than 3 of 4 Major Labels Listening Post Discusses Digital Music on NPR’s “Fresh Air” SlicethePie: Unleash Your Inner Major Label Executive Australian Artist Launches Intriguing Fan-Financed Album TuneCore If you’ve ever tried to puzzle your way through iTunes’ music submission process, you know how labyrinthine and tedious it can be. Now, multiply that hassle by the number of digital music outlets in the world, and you start to see why TuneCore is so important. In case you haven’t heard of it, TuneCore allows anyone to distribute songs or albums to iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, eMusic and so on, for preposterously low fees. None other than Trent Reznor used TuneCore to distribute his 36-song opus Ghosts I-IV to iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody and other outlets for a mere $38. This company is a true Long Tail enabler, and TuneCore’s latest move could make it even more disruptive. The company recently released an API that gives anyone the ability to distribute other peoples’ music digitally, worldwide (with permission, of course). Whatever the next version of the record label is, it’s probably going to require a distributor that looks a lot like TuneCore. TuneCore Gets Transparent About How Much Its Artists Make Dirt-Cheap Digital Distribution TuneCore Will Help Bands Sell CDs on the Cheap It Just Got Cheaper to Sell a Song on iTunes YouTube This is another sort of counterintuitive choice. Isn’t YouTube a video site? Guess again, says a certain digital music insider, who once said to me, “Want to see the best on-demand music service in the world? Go to YouTube and close your eyes.” He was right. Thanks to licensing deals with the labels, hordes of loyal users scouring the dustbins of history for every last scrap of available footage, and a generous embedding policy, no list of the best music sites in the world would be complete without YouTube. Weezer Taps YouTube Stars for Its Own YouTube Channel YouTube Rickrolled Around 6 Million People Yesterday Audio Playlists Make Great YouTube Filters Band Explains How and Why It Made a YouTube Video Honorable Mentions Blogspot, for hosting so many music blogs (as suggested by Michael Calore of monkey_bites). He writes, “I have no idea why everyone’s choosing that platform in particular, but when i want to find either advance releases or obscure, out-of-print ’70s turkish psyche-prog vinyl rips, i add “blogspot” to my google search and there they are. 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 and teens with cellphones but not credit cards and time but not money will likely see the value in watching an ad or playing a videogame with a corporate logo in order to download free music to their cellphones. Hype Machine scrapes scores of music blogs so you don’t have to, but the sheer volume of music on the site can be sort of overwhelming. Last.fm has an awesome scrobbling feature that lets your friends know what you’ve been listening to, great social features, and a royalty program that compensates indie artists, unlike MySpace. But it needed a bigger selection of on-demand music even before Warner Music Group pulled out. MySpace is still the king of band pages, but now that sites like imeem have on-demand streaming and allow external embedding, its importance could diminishing. Plus, if ad-supported music is the future, that future only includes major labels, as far as MySpace is concerned. Pandora probably would have made the list if its catalog were larger and if the Copyright Royalty Board wasn’t threatening to drive it out of business with its high royalty rates. Qtrax, “the world’s first free and legal P2P service,” has had a rocky start, with a couple of miscued launches, despite having deals in place with two of the big four record labels. The company still has a long way to go before it realizes its full potential, but oh, what a potential that is. Qtrax’s vision is to bring vast amount of music on P2P networks –- as many as 25 or 30 million songs (over three times what’s available on iTunes) –- back onto the reservation by cleaning them up, wrapping them in DRM (partially so that playcounts can be easily tabulated) and presenting them to users for free in an ad-supported environment. The labels are apparently considering allowing this to be done, but haven’t yet fully committed to the concept. As a result, Qtrax’s catalog of official label releases currently reside on its own servers. Related articles by Zemanta Slash and burn: Activision cashes in on Guitar Hero Beatles to Become Guitar Heroes? 360 Rock Band Guitars Work With GH: Aerosmith [Update] [Guitar Hero] No player-created tracks for Rock Band 2 Website of the Day: Button Hero Activision and MTV Games in talks for Beatles catalog Rock Band Music Creation To Be “Radically Different” Says CEO [Harmonix] Add To Facebook
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  Listening Post’s Top 10 Hottest Music Sites

  http://5olio.com/blog/?p=509
  18 days ago in 5olio blog · Authority: 8

  Image via Wikipedia Imeem You may have noticed that we use imeem’s music-embedding feature quite a bit when covering music on the Listening Post blog. This is not because we have some sort of business deal in place with them; imeem is simply the best option we’ve found for embedding music without worrying about getting permission from a label. In most cases, we’re able to find a full song or two to embed from their catalog. Our only quibble with this system is that they only allow 30 seconds of certain songs to be embedded, and there’s no way to tell until you preview the post. There’s a lot more to imeem than just their blog strategy, of course, which is so powerful in part due to the company’s deals with all four major labels for free, on-demand music. The site also includes social networking features, videos and loads of free music. And even songs that can only be embedded as a 30-second version stream in their entirety if you play them while you’re signed in to imeem. Imeem Signs Deal With Universal, Now Streams All Four Major Labels for Free Study: Imeem Unseats Yahoo as Top U.S. Music-Streaming Site (Updated) Imeem Opens Its Massive Media Catalog to Third Parties IMeem to Allow Label-Sanctioned Music on User Slideshows IVideoSongs This may seem like an odd choice, but bear with me. IVideosongs is one of a handful of new sites that teach the guitar online through the video medium. Demand is only growing for these sites, as the Guitar Hero and Rock Band videogames spawn a new generation of axe-wielding would-be shredders. Some of their tutorials are free, others cost small fee. At the high end of the price scale ($10), you’ll find songs being taught by the person who wrote them, or who was associated with their recording (George Martin’s son teaches Beatles songs on the site, for instance). Online music education has huge potential, and the guitar is at the forefront of the movement for a number of reasons. From what we’ve seen, iVideoSongs is currently the best option out there. In May, six of the top 20 podcasts in the iTunes store were iVideosongs tutorials. The site has licensing deals in place with the big five music publishers as well as smaller music publishers. Their high-definition videos play full screen on a computer or on iPods and other portable devices. Guitar Tutorials Rocket Up iTunes Podcast Charts Guitar Hero Is a Gateway Drug Omnifone This UK-based music service charges cellphone subscribers a low monthly fee for unlimited access to over a million tracks from their phones. This is a fine deal as it is, but we like the frosting too: a feature that tailors your news feeds based on the artists you listen to the most, and a social networking feature that lets you share tracks with your friends. When I tested Omnifone’s MusicStation service, the company fronted the expensive roaming fees required for me to test the service from America, using a phone its CEO Rob Lewis delivered to me in person. Although the service is not yet available in the United States, Lewis said he is in talks with labels about rolling the service out here. He expects the U.S. version of the service to cost less than a current monthly Rhapsody subscription — around $7.50 per month. Hands-On With Omnifone’s Unlimited Cellphone Music Service Omnifone to Launch iPhone Killer Music Download Service Free All-You-Can-Download Cellphone Services Can’t Replace P2P Celestial Jukebox Arrives, But Is It Any Good? MOG I actually don’t use this site, but it’s not because I don’t like it. After a full day of covering music and digital music news on Listening Post, it wouldn’t make sense to spend my free time blogging about music on MOG. But the one million or so people who visit MOG each month have been writing up a storm, and the site recently added lyrics and a video hub to give them even more to talk about. According to a MOG spokeswoman, some of its users are gaining netfame, like indiepixie, whose MOG profile currently lists her MOG meter status as “blazing.” The site also offers a smattering of celebrity bloggers including Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, Questlove of The Roots and Greg Saunier of Deerhoof, but their posting schedule is far slacker than those of MOG’s non-touring users. You can’t listen to much music on the site without a Rhapsody account, but its plentiful YouTube videos make up for that to a certain extent, and the site’s navigation, design and proliferation of music-oriented communication features were enough to put it on our list. MOG 2.0’s YouTube Mash-up: “What MTV Should Have Become” MOG Adds Lyrics, Interviews, Blog Tools MOG Integrates Rhapsody for Full-Track Playback MOG Blogs: Bringing Artists and Fans Closer Together Muxtape Some might look at Muxtape and wonder why its features are so limited. Why can’t I search? Why can’t I customize the look of the player? And why are the fonts so big? The thing is, there are hordes of sites out there that offer more functions than most people will ever use. Muxtape does one thing, and it does it very, very well: It allows people to create online MP3 mix tapes in a matter of minutes, no expertise or hassle tolerance required. Despite servers crashing when the site first launched and a subsequent loss of a small percentage of newly created mixes, the site is back on track and has plenty of room for expansion. Muxtape’s creator told us that while he won’t rule out advertising completely, he plans to keep Muxtape super simple in subsequent releases, which is good news for anyone who likes to share music without jumping through hoops. Muxtape Keeps the Mixtape Concept Alive Interview: Justin Ouellette, the Man Behind Muxtape Muxtape Is Down, Small Percentage of Mixes Lost (Updated) MuxFind Lets You Search and Discover on Muxtape RCRD LBL When the guy who founded Engadget and Gizmodo joins forces with the guy who runs Downtown Records, one would expect interesting things to happen. Indeed, RCRD LBL, the joint venture between Peter Rojas and Josh Deutsch, is gaining traction among music fans who want free music. Their site merges two major online trends, blogs and free music, in a way that gets everybody paid. RCRD LBL pays recording artists and remixers a flat fee for a song ranging up to $5,000, and then offers free MP3 downloads, streams, widgets and radio stations using the resulting music catalog to its users. As I wrote back when they launched, “how they make money from that is their business” (through advertising and sponsorships). The company is in the process of banding with a few other independent music-oriented blogs to present a larger chunk of pageviews for advertisers. RCRD LBL Solves the Free Music Riddle Interview: Peter Rojas of RCRD LBL RCRD LBL Slated for an Nov. 15 Launch Five Reasons MP3 Blogs Could Be the Next Record Labels SeeqPod Imagine a big, invisible net that could haul in all of the fish that are hiding under various rocks and crags of the world’s oceans … except the fish stay just where they are, despite the fact that you get as many fish as you want. That’s basically what SeeqPod does for music. It scours the net for MP3s in all sorts of locations, presenting them through a simple search box, a moving tracker that showcases the site’s latest discoveries and an iPhone interface that turns the internet into a music collection for your iPhone. In addition, you can embed SeeqPod playlists anywhere HTML is used. As with many innovators before it, SeeqPod is currently staring down a major-label lawsuit. But as a directory that doesn’t host any music, it would appear to have certain legal protections. SeeqPod iPhone Button Allows Instant Access to Free Music Warner Music Group’s Complaint Against SeeqPod SeeqPod Widget Lets You Embed Music From a Massive Catalog for Free Play the Internet’s Hidden Music on your iPhone for Free Sellaband/SlicethePie Paradoxically, as more people seem to be investing time rather than money to acquire music, a growing number of fans are ponying up cold hard cash to invest in bands themselves. Once they reach a certain level of fan investment, bands on Sellaband and SlicethePie get to use a pool of their inverstors’ money ranging from $30,000 to $50,000 to record and market an album. Not only do investors get a copy of that album, but they see a return on album sales and can trade shares in bands as they would a company’s stock. Sellaband was the first company to pioneer this approach, but we’re including SlicethePie here too, since the companies employ slightly different approaches. Your Next Investment: An Indie Rock Band? Slicethepie Vows to Fund More New Bands Than 3 of 4 Major Labels Listening Post Discusses Digital Music on NPR’s “Fresh Air” SlicethePie: Unleash Your Inner Major Label Executive Australian Artist Launches Intriguing Fan-Financed Album TuneCore If you’ve ever tried to puzzle your way through iTunes’ music submission process, you know how labyrinthine and tedious it can be. Now, multiply that hassle by the number of digital music outlets in the world, and you start to see why TuneCore is so important. In case you haven’t heard of it, TuneCore allows anyone to distribute songs or albums to iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, eMusic and so on, for preposterously low fees. None other than Trent Reznor used TuneCore to distribute his 36-song opus Ghosts I-IV to iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody and other outlets for a mere $38. This company is a true Long Tail enabler, and TuneCore’s latest move could make it even more disruptive. The company recently released an API that gives anyone the ability to distribute other peoples’ music digitally, worldwide (with permission, of course). Whatever the next version of the record label is, it’s probably going to require a distributor that looks a lot like TuneCore. TuneCore Gets Transparent About How Much Its Artists Make Dirt-Cheap Digital Distribution TuneCore Will Help Bands Sell CDs on the Cheap It Just Got Cheaper to Sell a Song on iTunes YouTube This is another sort of counterintuitive choice. Isn’t YouTube a video site? Guess again, says a certain digital music insider, who once said to me, “Want to see the best on-demand music service in the world? Go to YouTube and close your eyes.” He was right. Thanks to licensing deals with the labels, hordes of loyal users scouring the dustbins of history for every last scrap of available footage, and a generous embedding policy, no list of the best music sites in the world would be complete without YouTube. Weezer Taps YouTube Stars for Its Own YouTube Channel YouTube Rickrolled Around 6 Million People Yesterday Audio Playlists Make Great YouTube Filters Band Explains How and Why It Made a YouTube Video Honorable Mentions Blogspot, for hosting so many music blogs (as suggested by Michael Calore of monkey_bites). He writes, “I have no idea why everyone’s choosing that platform in particular, but when i want to find either advance releases or obscure, out-of-print ’70s turkish psyche-prog vinyl rips, i add “blogspot” to my google search and there they are. 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 and teens with cellphones but not credit cards and time but not money will likely see the value in watching an ad or playing a videogame with a corporate logo in order to download free music to their cellphones. Hype Machine scrapes scores of music blogs so you don’t have to, but the sheer volume of music on the site can be sort of overwhelming. Last.fm has an awesome scrobbling feature that lets your friends know what you’ve been listening to, great social features, and a royalty program that compensates indie artists, unlike MySpace. But it needed a bigger selection of on-demand music even before Warner Music Group pulled out. MySpace is still the king of band pages, but now that sites like imeem have on-demand streaming and allow external embedding, its importance could diminishing. Plus, if ad-supported music is the future, that future only includes major labels, as far as MySpace is concerned. Pandora probably would have made the list if its catalog were larger and if the Copyright Royalty Board wasn’t threatening to drive it out of business with its high royalty rates. Qtrax, “the world’s first free and legal P2P service,” has had a rocky start, with a couple of miscued launches, despite having deals in place with two of the big four record labels. The company still has a long way to go before it realizes its full potential, but oh, what a potential that is. Qtrax’s vision is to bring vast amount of music on P2P networks –- as many as 25 or 30 million songs (over three times what’s available on iTunes) –- back onto the reservation by cleaning them up, wrapping them in DRM (partially so that playcounts can be easily tabulated) and presenting them to users for free in an ad-supported environment. The labels are apparently considering allowing this to be done, but haven’t yet fully committed to the concept. As a result, Qtrax’s catalog of official label releases currently reside on its own servers. Related articles by Zemanta Slash and burn: Activision cashes in on Guitar Hero Beatles to Become Guitar Heroes? 360 Rock Band Guitars Work With GH: Aerosmith [Update] [Guitar Hero] No player-created tracks for Rock Band 2 Website of the Day: Button Hero Activision and MTV Games in talks for Beatles catalog Rock Band Music Creation To Be “Radically Different” Says CEO [Harmonix] Add To Facebook
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  Guitar lær det...

  http://www.opifer.dk/blog/2008/05/guitar-lr-det.html
  30 days ago in Daniel's blog · Authority: 3

  Vil du lære at spiller guitar? Så tjek denne artiklel, og download så itunes.
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  Learn to Play an Instrument Online

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  64 days ago in http://theecostream.tumblr.com · No authority yet

  Learn to Play an Instrument Online How To: Chances are at one point or another, you’ve either purchased an instrument or considered doing so with the intention of learning to play it; most of us, however, never get around the the learning part. The internet is a glorious fount of freely available information, and it’s slowly filling up with excellent tutorials for getting good at just about anything—including playing a new instrument. Hit the jump for a handful of great resources for getting started with a new instrument online for the low, low price of free. Hit Up YouTube for Free Tutorials As free hosted video sites proliferate around the web, more and more people have begun using them to share their skills with the world at large. Just spend a few minutes on YouTube searching for a musical topic of interest and you will find tons of videos to suit your interests, from how to play drums to how to play piano. You’re likely to find the most videos, though, focusing on playing the guitar. Aspiring guitarists should check out web site Video Tabs, which scours YouTube for guitar-specific instructional videos and posts the best to their site.[via] Improve Your Guitar Chops with iTunes The second most popular podcast on iTunes is Beginning Guitar 101, a free instructional video from iVideosongs. The site itself is chock full of instructional videos that you can pay $5 to $10 for, but iTunes features six instructional videos for the beginning guitarist to devour for free. Then, of course, if you’re hooked, you can head to the site for more. [via] Learn Guitar on Your iPod Web site and now software iPlayMusic (original post) offers several free videos for the beginning guitarist through their freeware iPlayMusic player. iPlayMusic requires a registration to get started, and it’s put a commercial face on a lot of its videos, but the free beginner tutorials are a great place to get started; even better, they export for watching on your iPod on-the-go. Learn to Read Tablature The best way to get up and started in no time is by learning how to read tab (a simple notation for translating what you’re supposed to play that’s way less complicated than reading music) and then finding a good tab site or two. Honestly, whenever I’m searching for tabs I just hit up Google and grab the first or second result. That said, I’m a big fan of sites like Ultimate Guitar for their auto-scroll features, which scroll the page for you so you don’t have to stop playing. A lot of tab sites are riddled with pop-ups, but sometimes that’
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  Guitar Hero Spurs Demand For The Real Thing

  http://www.pkellypr.com/blog/2008/0521/guitar-hero-spurs-dem...
  65 days ago in Piaras Kelly PR - Public Relations in Ireland · Authority: 54

  The funniest thing I hear back when I’m talking to people about Guitar Hero or Rock Band is “So after playing the game are you actually able to play the guitar?” Good question, but the answer is unfortunately no. Something which the makers of South Park gleefully exploit in a recent episode. The interesting thing though is this new market of casual consumers who have picked up the plastic guitar have opened up a new opportunity for guitar companies. Wired reports: Of the top 20 podcasts offered by iTunes, six are iVideosongs tutorials. The second most popular podcast on iTunes is iVideosongs’ “Beginning Guitar 101.” The wave of interest in guitar tutorials comes amid renewed interest in the instrument, spurred at least in part by wildly popular games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band. IVideosongs’ chart success comes only a few weeks after the company released its first tutorial through iTunes, on April 2. … Budding guitarists can purchase iVideosongs lessons individually for $5 or $10, depending on whether the song is being taught by the artist who wrote it or not, with certain titles available for free download within iTunes. Purchased tutorials are in HD quality, but can also be transferred onto iPods and iPhones for portable tutelage. This is a trend which has also been recognised by one of my clients, Canon, who point out that the huge surge of cameraphones has actually led to an increase in the purchase of digital cameras, rather than eating into the market. What we’re seeing is that casual consumers are rediscovering their passion for certain hobbies. Once hooked they are potentially in the market to ‘trade up’, whether it’s switching from a digital compact camera to an SLR or swapping the plastic guitar for a Gibson.
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  Learn to Play an Instrument Online

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  65 days ago in HEAVENSOUNDS · No authority yet

  Learn to Play an Instrument Online How To: Chances are at one point or another, you’ve either purchased an instrument or considered doing so with the intention of learning to play it; most of us, however, never get around the the learning part. The internet is a glorious fount of freely available information, and it’s slowly filling up with excellent tutorials for getting good at just about anything—including playing a new instrument. Hit the jump for a handful of great resources for getting started with a new instrument online for the low, low price of free. Hit Up YouTube for Free Tutorials As free hosted video sites proliferate around the web, more and more people have begun using them to share their skills with the world at large. Just spend a few minutes on YouTube searching for a musical topic of interest and you will find tons of videos to suit your interests, from how to play drums to how to play piano. You’re likely to find the most videos, though, focusing on playing the guitar. Aspiring guitarists should check out web site Video Tabs, which scours YouTube for guitar-specific instructional videos and posts the best to their site.[via] Improve Your Guitar Chops with iTunes The second most popular podcast on iTunes is Beginning Guitar 101, a free instructional video from iVideosongs. The site itself is chock full of instructional videos that you can pay $5 to $10 for, but iTunes features six instructional videos for the beginning guitarist to devour for free. Then, of course, if you’re hooked, you can head to the site for more. [via] Learn Guitar on Your iPod Web site and now software iPlayMusic (original post) offers several free videos for the beginning guitarist through their freeware iPlayMusic player. iPlayMusic requires a registration to get started, and it’s put a commercial face on a lot of its videos, but the free beginner tutorials are a great place to get started; even better, they export for watching on your iPod on-the-go. Learn to Read Tablature The best way to get up and started in no time is by learning how to read tab (a simple notation for translating what you’re supposed to play that’s way less complicated than reading music) and then finding a good tab site or two. Honestly, whenever I’m searching for tabs I just hit up Google and grab the first or second result. That said, I’m a big fan of sites like Ultimate Guitar for their auto-scroll features, which scroll the page for you so you don’t have to stop playing. A lot of tab sites are riddled with pop-ups, but sometimes that’s the price you pay. posted : Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 tags :
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  Learn to Play an Instrument Online - ivideosongs.com

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  66 days ago in Ian Scott · Authority: 6

  Chances are at one point or another, you’ve either purchased an instrument or considered doing so with the intention of learning to play it; most of us, however, never get around the the learning part. The internet is a glorious fount of freely available information, and it’s slowly filling up with excellent tutorials for getting good at just about anything—including playing a new instrument. Hit the jump for a handful of great resources for getting started with a new instrument online for the low, low price of free. Hit Up YouTube for Free Tutorials As free hosted video sites proliferate around the web, more and more people have begun using them to share their skills with the world at large. Just spend a few minutes on YouTube searching for a musical topic of interest and you will find tons of videos to suit your interests, from how to play drums to how to play piano. You’re likely to find the most videos, though, focusing on playing the guitar. Aspiring guitarists should check out web site Video Tabs, which scours YouTube for guitar-specific instructional videos and posts the best to their site.[via] Improve Your Guitar Chops with iTunes The second most popular podcast on iTunes is Beginning Guitar 101, a free instructional video from iVideosongs. The site itself is chock full of instructional videos that you can pay $5 to $10 for, but iTunes features six instructional videos for the beginning guitarist to devour for free. Then, of course, if you’re hooked, you can head to the site for more. [via] Learn Guitar on Your iPod Web site and now software iPlayMusic (original post) offers several free videos for the beginning guitarist through their freeware iPlayMusic player. iPlayMusic requires a registration to get started, and it’s put a commercial face on a lot of its videos, but the free beginner tutorials are a great place to get started; even better, they export for watching on your iPod on-the-go. Learn to Read Tablature The best way to get up and started in no time is by learning how to read tab (a simple notation for translating what you’re supposed to play that’s way less complicated than reading music) and then finding a good tab site or two. Honestly, whenever I’m searching for tabs I just hit up Google and grab the first or second result. That said, I’m a big fan of sites like Ultimate Guitar for their auto-scroll features, which scroll the page for you so you don’t have to stop playing. A lot of tab sites are riddled with pop-ups, but sometimes that’s the price you pay. Learn the Drums While Playing Video Games One of the coolest things about the video game Rock Band is that—while the guitar bears no relevance to actual guitar playing—you can actually learn a little something about drumming by playing Rock Band. No, Rock Band isn’t exactly ‘online’ (though you can play with friends over Xbox Live), but Wired has rounded up some great tips for Rock Band drummers looking to hone their skills (original post). As you can tell, the hobbiest’s instrument-of-choice is definitely the guitar, and you’re likely to find a lot more guitar-centric how-tos than the rest. However, with a little digging—and YouTube really is your friend for this—you can get a basic understanding of and get started with just about any instrument. If you’ve got your own tried-and-true resources for honing your musical talents online, share it in the comments. (Via Lifehacker.)

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