Posts Tagged with ‘radio’

By now everyone is familiar with the RIAA and their collective belief that everyone online is a thief, stealing music every which way we can. The recording industry has been fighting to prove that even the premise of “making available,” putting music out there to share with no proof it's ever been downloaded, is still a violation of copyright laws, and that all the digital sharing results in nothing but losses for the music industry.
The Web 2.0 music sites beg [...]

The social music and online radio site known as Jango has proved to be quite the popular newcomer, having announced today that the free service has more than 1 million listeners who have created a total of more than 3 million custom Internet radio stations.
Pretty impressive news for a service which only publicly launched just two short months ago. Even more impressive are the stats available from Compete.com, which show that Jango is already aimed at similar well-established services in [...]

One million hours of television and radio programming provided on-demand via the Web. That?s the BBC?s plan. The media colossus intends for an archive which will include many of its new and old recordings to be opened to the public if a trial to selected 20,000 UK-based individuals proves successful.
?Successful? can mean a lot of things, of course, but we presume they?re looking to see if such a catalogue is something even desired by the population (the trial is similar [...]

Looking for new music to listen to that once discovered, you can actually download and keep for free? Goombah, a site that analyzes your music taste based on your iTunes library, just launched their Radio Free Goombah service. This allows you to download songs to play anywhere and post anywhere in widget form. They also just signed a deal with the Independent Online Distribution Alliance, adding even more songs for users to download for free.
Now, Goombah has 7 million tracks [...]

Pando and Musicrypt partner for an unbeatable solution to secure media transfer. Musicrypt Inc. and Pando Networks, Inc., announced that they have entered into a licensing agreement expanding their relationship. Musicrypt proved they could integrate Pando's unique technology with their own Digital Media Distribution System (DMDS) to provide the fastest, most secure delivery of large digital content like TV commercials, music videos and audio files over the Internet.
Incorporating Pando Networks' innovative peer-to-peer architecture within DMDS will provide the fastest, most secure full [...]

Being a passionate music fan, I pretty much lap up any industry news that’s devoid of keywords like “bling”, “pop princess”, “Beyonce”. You know, you gotta have the firewall up at least a bit. But there are those moments when there are things going on which have little or nothing to do with the audio, and everything to do with the audio, all at the same time. Such is the case with the news of AOL Music’s purchase by Napster. [...]