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| Aug 19, 2014 | YouTube Is Coming After Spotify With a Clone Called 'Music Key' | (Photo via Esther Vargas)
The Internet’s largest players are slowly figuring out that nobody wants to pay for music or movies, no matter how low the cost. So to figure out what’s next, they’re looking a the rising subscription giants like N... |
| Mar 14, 2014 | Rdio picks up Dhingana to make a push into India | Dhingana was one of the country's largest streaming services before shutting down last month
Rdio already has a major global presence, offering its services in 51 countries, and in almost all of the major continents across the globe (s... |
| Oct 4, 2013 | Startup Rundown: You Can Now Get A Degree In “Connective Media” And Spin Is Yet Another Group Video App | Cornell Tech’s Connective Media class of 2016 (photo: flickr user whiteafrican)
Tech training Mayor Bloomberg joined Cornell NYC Tech earlier this week to announce a new degree program: a two-year master’s in “connective media.” Cool kids T... |
| Aug 24, 2013 | Soundfocus (YC S13) chosen as Gizmodo App of the Day: World's first music player tuned to your hearing | SoundFocus: SoundFocus is “the world’s first music player that tunes to your hearing,” according to its creators, led by SoundFocus CEO Alex Selig, who himself suffers from hearing impairment.First, you test your hearing acuity, roughly spe... |
| Aug 24, 2013 | Soundfocus (YC S13) chosen as Gizmodo App of the Day: World’s first music player tuned to your hearing | SoundFocus: SoundFocus is “the world’s first music player that tunes to your hearing,” according to its creators, led by SoundFocus CEO Alex Selig, who himself suffers from hearing impairment.First, you test your hearing acuity, roughly spe... |
| Jun 13, 2013 | Tunebox Is An iTunes Match-Like App For Dropbox Music Files | When Dropbox bought Audiogalaxy late last year, industry observers wondered if the cloud music player startup could turn into a new audio streaming product. But Audiogalaxy was promptly shut down, and the team is rumored to be working on ot... |
| Jun 4, 2013 | Music Hack Day: jazz analysis app beats out 24 projects in Philly’s first music hackathon | An iPad app that teases out the different lines of a jazz piece won Philadelphia’s first Music Hack Day last month.
Dubbed the Multi-voice Jazz Companion App, it was built by Drexel postdoctoral research associate Ray Migneco and Drexel ele... |
| Mar 13, 2013 | 6 Million People Pay For Spotify – Is That Good Enough? | Who says freemium doesn’t work? For Spotify, the hybrid free/paid business model has reeled in 6 million paying subscribers out of its 24 million total listeners. Not bad. But as the music streaming space heats up, the company will face som... |
| Jan 16, 2013 | Fear and Loathing at CES 2013 | True story: I once took a wrong turn at the Las Vegas Convention Center and ended up smack dab in the middle of a South Indian bazaar which featured such prized items as secondhand quilts/iPad covers with pictures of your kids screen-printe... |
| Dec 6, 2012 | Confirmed: Spotify Apps coming to mobile & web in January | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Streaming music service Spotify is bringing the S... |
| Nov 9, 2012 | Viral Video Of 9-Year-Old Girl Football Star… Taken Down Because Of Music | If you follow the “hot viral video of the week” you probably have seen or heard about Sam Gordon, the 9-year-old girl who is pretty damn good at football, (the American kind for all you foreigners), as shown in an impressive highlight reel ... |
| Oct 9, 2012 | Neil Young’s Anti-MP3 Crusade Gets Real | For years, Neil Young has waged a rhetorical war on digital audio formats such as MP3. Lambasting their diminished sonic quality, the rock icon has advocated the development of a new high-resolution format more sonically akin to the analog ... |
| Oct 2, 2012 | Can Spotify’s App Platform Make Rock’n’Roll Profitable Again? Ask Blur | Since Spotify launched in the U.S. last year, many musicians haven’t been sure what to make of it. Is the all-you-can-stream music model a promotional tool or a bona-fide revenue source? The answer may be somewhere in the middle.
The debate... |
| Jul 25, 2012 | Music or Marketing? Artist-Branded Apps Search for a Hit | When the iPhone welcomed third-party apps four years ago, the music industry, like everyone else, scrambled to find a revenue-generating angle. Band-specific apps began rolling out, highlighting musicians in the App Store. They haven’t exac... |
| Jul 18, 2012 | Spotify 1 Year Later: Music Distribution Gropes Toward the Digital Future | It seems like just yesterday that American music fans were desperately awaiting Spotify’s arrival. As of this week, the European all-you-can-stream subscription service has been available in the U.S. for one year. So how did it fare in its ... |
| Jun 27, 2012 | Music Piracy Debate Reignites Despite Evidence That Digital Distribution Pays | Ten years ago this month, Napster filed for bankruptcy. The peer-to-peer filesharing network succumbed to an all-out legal war waged by major record labels, but not before popularizing downloadable digital music and sparking a heated debate... |
| Jun 26, 2012 | Myth Dispensing: The Whole 'Spotify Barely Pays Artists' Story Is Bunk | One of the key talking points that we’ve heard from the “haters” of the new music business models is the claim that Spotify pays next-to-nothing to artists. This is really based on a few stories, taken totally out of context, concerning a f... |
| Jun 23, 2012 | Five Spotify apps that will change how you listen to music | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Since Spotify‘s U.S. launch a year ago, the start... |
| Apr 17, 2012 | Turntable Rival Soundrop Says 35M Tracks Went Through Its Spotify App In March; Funding Coming In Weeks | As Spotify continues its march to becoming a $1 billion-revenue company, the music streaming service is launching a battery of new products to increase the amount of time that people spend on the site: There is an iPad app that could launch... |
| Mar 5, 2012 | Too Bad: SXSW Shuts Down Useful App For Finding New Bands You'd Like | I went to SXSW last year and had an amazing time. Having never gone before, and hearing people talk about it every year, I was pretty cynical heading there for the first time, but I have to admit that the event was really, really fantastic,... |
| Feb 14, 2012 | How Developers Are Shaping the Future of Music | That the music industry has radically changed in the last decade is a serious understatement. Technology has altered everything from the creation of music to its distribution, upending retailers, studios and business models across the indus... |
| Jan 23, 2012 | MegaFallout: Shutdown of MegaUpload Spooks Other Services | The fallout from last week’s FBI raid and shutdown of MegaUpload isn’t limited to founder Kim Dotcom and his associates. As intriguing as that story will be to follow, some of the more immediate side effects are being felt among other file-... |
| Jan 18, 2012 | Remote DJ’ing App PlayMySong Raises $350K Seed Round | Finnish startup PlayMySong, the crowdsourced music DJ’ing service that lets a store’s customers remotely program the stereo, has just closed a round of seed funding totaling $350,000. The round was led by Lifeline Ventures, a Helsinki-based... |
| Jan 11, 2012 | Dylan’s Desk: 6 must-watch trends for 2012 | Last week I looked at the revolutionary products that will change the tech sector this year. This week, I’d like to give you a preview of several key trends we’ll be following carefully at VentureBeat in 2012.
It’s fitting that I’m writing ... |
| Jan 6, 2012 | Spotify Has Gotten Big In The US Via Facebook, But Serious Free Users Will Have To Start Paying Soon | Many of you who have been using streaming music service Spotify for free in the US from when it launched last July are now going to have to start paying, as Business Insider points out today.
The reason is the company’s policy of limiting f... |
| Dec 20, 2011 | Ticketing 3.0: Facebook Becomes A Box Office | Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Evolver.fm Editor Eliot Van Buskirk, who has covered and occasionally anticipated music and technology intersections for under 15 years for CNET, Wired.com, McGraw-Hill, and The Echo Nest. He pl... |
| Nov 4, 2011 | Apps Letting You Stream Your Own Music From The Cloud Being Pressured Over 'Licensing' | When Google, Amazon and Apple all entered the “cloud music” space at about the same time, we pointed out that we seemed to be missing the real point of the cloud. That was, that all of the services required the storage provider’s own client... |
| Nov 1, 2011 | Apple is removing cloud music apps from the App Store | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
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In the latest example of Apple’s fear of competition, the company has ... |
| Nov 1, 2011 | Apple is removing cloud music apps from the App Store | [This story has been updated with additional information below…]
In the latest example of Apple’s fear of competition, the company has removed a third-party app from its App Store that allows people to access music stored on Amazon’s Cloud ... |
| Oct 20, 2011 | SoundCloud and Last.fm APIs Mashed Up into New Music Discovery App | A music discovery app for iOS that went live recently shows just what’s possible when digital music services open up their libraries and functionality via powerful APIs. Twist Radio takes the music recommendation engine from Last.fm and use... |
| Oct 3, 2011 | Spotify adds 2M users after forcing users to sign up on Facebook | Streaming music service Spotify now has over five million active monthly users after announcing its new integration with giant social network Facebook at the f8 developer conference Sept. 22 — up from 3.4 million users, reports Evolver.fm.
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| Oct 3, 2011 | Spotify adds 2M users after forcing users to sign up on Facebook | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Streaming music service Spotify now has over five... |
| Aug 15, 2011 | Turntable.fm Popularity Gives Rise to Similar Services | The sudden and somewhat explosive popularity of the virtual DJing site Turntable.fm has paved the way for a number of services with similar, or sometimes identical, functionality.
The startup garnered a significant amount of buzz online sin... |
| Aug 7, 2011 | Rolling.fm founder says it’s no Turntable.fm clone | Whenever a popular web startup appears on the scene, it doesn’t take long for an onslaught of clones to show up. And ever since music sharing site Turntable.fm launched in late May, we’ve been expecting duplicate startups to follow.
The fir... |
| Aug 4, 2011 | The Advantage Of Copycat Startups: Will Rolling.fm Keep Turntable.fm Innovating? | We’ve written a few times about the wonders of Turntable.fm, one of the first new music services that really seems to get the fact that part of what makes music so enjoyable is the social experience. It’s a wonderful service. However, as wi... |
| Aug 1, 2011 | Turntable.FM Building New Avatar System That Will Use Your Real Face | The folks over at Evolver.fm think this is a “joke” feature, but Betabeat is inclined to disagree. The company is strapped for resources and not likely to code something they don’t plan on using, even if it does help them blow off a little ... |
| Jun 6, 2011 | You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Apple’s Disappointing Music Announcements at WWDC | There was a lot of buzz prior to today’s announcements at WWDC about the deals that Apple had reportedly struck with the major record labels. Even before any Apple executives took the stage, many industry observers had crowned Apple the hei... |
| May 10, 2011 | Google: Major Labels Got In The Way Of Cool Features In Google Music | Earlier this morning, we wrote about the expectation that Google would be launching a music locker without first getting licenses from the labels. That’s now been confirmed and officially launched (though, still limited to US users by invit... |
| Apr 25, 2011 | Google Misreads Complaint From MLB, Blocks Wrong Site | Well, this is unfortunate. Google’s been getting more and more pressure from the US government to censor websites based on accusations (not convictions) of copyright infringement, and it appears that Google is caving more and more to such r... |
| Feb 24, 2011 | Stop Thinking That Tech & Content Are Fighting Each Other | The following is a guest post from Martin Thornkvist, who both runs a Swedish indie record label, and works for Media Evolution — an organization designed to help its various members learn about and embrace new media innovation opportunitie... |
