Posts Tagged with ‘online-music’

Bad news for multiple fans of the music mixtape startup Muxtape - RIAA has shut the service and no one even seems to have any details. What probably happened is that RIAA has realized that users uploaded and shared tons of music and invited their friends to stream it while online radio sites are supposed to pay huge licensing fees for a very similar type of activity.
The site itself is down and shows only the text “Muxtape will be unavailable [...]

Today Grooveshark, an innovative music discovery and monetization platform, is unveiling its new Autoplay feature today that will make music consumption even easier than it was before with this excellent service. With Gorrveshark even if you don’t have a huge library of tracks, you will soon build one - and it will contain only the music that you actually like without making you search for such music.
For those of you who missed our initial (very enthusiastic) review of Grooveshark [...]

Ubuket is the new darling of the music playlist creation set. Entering the ring with recent darlings MuxTape and Grooveshark, among others, Ubuket gives you a way to pull music from a variety of places online and on your computer and make playlists. You can even grab music from video sites like YouTube.
Ubuket is quite easy to use. Once you sign up you can grab tunes from a variety of places, including your computer, and turn them into playlists for [...]

Taking a new tack in the continuing war on music listeners, Warner wants to break from the current thug tactics of the RIAA and go with a fee schedule instead. This fee schedule would operate very much like a consumption tax on music, being added to your internet bill each month. What Warner isn’t taking into account is whether that is something music lovers want.
What music lovers are looking for, and what many companies are already building for them, is [...]

Music Web 2.0 applications are hot right now. There are tons of complex applications out there right now as companies try to create the first, best monetized model for online music, like Grooveshark . What about the people who don’t want the time involvement and learning curve of a more complex site like Grooveshark? For them, there is now Muxtape.
Muxtape is the Web 2.0 version of those mixed tapes you made for people in your high school and college [...]

When I heard around the Internet that Amway was using one of their corporations to break into the online music business, I thought it was a joke. In fact, it seems it is true. Amway is planning on “breaking into the online music business”.
Amway is knocking on the door of online music through a web site called Fanista.  How is Fanista set up? Rather like a multi-level marketing pyramid scheme, it seems.  Very Web 1.0.
Fanista sent out an email [...]

Nutsie is a unique little Web 2.0 application that allows you to take your iTunes to the next level.  Listen to your iTunes playlist online or on  your mobile phone - no need to have an iPhone!  Not only can you listen to your own playlist you can share your playlist with friends. That's right - the potential embarrassment of the "shuffle songs" selection isn't just something that happens behind closed doors anymore. Now you can share it with [...]

My friends at Me.dium are some of the coolest people on the planet, and their latest “real time” mosh pit RockMe.dium proves it. RockMe is a five day music festival designed to allow fans to interact with artists and industry gurus. The event began today and is a unique online social experience where Web destinations and unique content are being debuted in conjunction with the Me.dium interactive Web window. RockMe runs from today through Saturday.
Until now there has really [...]

London record company EMI announced yesterday that it is planning to unveil an exciting digital collaboration with Apple Inc. The news, although not conclusive, points to an expectation that The Beatles' music catalogue will be made available to Apple's iTunes online music store.
EMI will hold a news conference today from their London headquarters with Eric Nicoli EMI's head honcho and Steve Jobs of Apple. The company would not give any further details, but EMI has been The Beatle's record label [...]