Posts Tagged ‘iTunes’

Music Jobs Poll: Music Consuming Habits of 2011

Posted on December 7th, 2011 by in Polls

As 2011 is drawing to a close, we thought we’d find out a little more about what kind of music listening preferences our members have used over the last 12 months. There are now more ways to consume music than ever before, making the murky waters of the music industry even more treacherous for musicians, [...]

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How to delete tracks from your iTunes library guilt free

Posted on September 6th, 2011 by in Music Technology

I’ve always battled with deleting tracks from my iTunes library.  Similar to clothing, I feel like once I delete it (or give it away as the case may be) I will find some amazing use/need for it and then I won’t have it.  With my very first iPod I uploaded every CD I could get [...]

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Stream, Baby, Stream!

Posted on May 20th, 2011 by in Music Industry News

Amazon Cloud Player and Google Music both launched within a couple of weeks of each other. They join a number of well established and loved music streaming services such as Pandora, Rdio, Rhapsody, Last.FM and many more, with the supposed king of them all, Spotify (which is VERY good, by the way), still due “any [...]

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iTunes! The Beatles! Downloading! Exclamation marks!

Posted on November 24th, 2010 by in Music Industry News

You seem to be web-savvy enough to be reading this blog, so I’m going to assume you’ve heard all the furor about The Beatles over the last 10 days. Yes, The Beatles have finally released their catalogue of music on iTunes, seemingly ending decades of feuds between Apple Corps (the company owning of much of [...]

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Lala Bites The Dust

Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by in Music Industry News

So, it seems that Apple spent a ton of money on Lala only to close it down 5 months later. This past weekend, Lala users received a notification email and this notice was posted on the music streaming website. Current users will be able to use the service until May 31st, after which any credits [...]

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MTV’s Hope for Haiti

Posted on February 3rd, 2010 by in Music Industry News

The current state of Haiti is horrible. Millions of people, terrible conditions, and much needed long-term help. As a result, MTV put together a telethon packed with celebrities and musicians in order to help raise money for relief efforts in Haiti. Several major broadcast networks and cable channels aired MTV Networks’ “Hope for Haiti“, an [...]

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Apple buy music streaming service Lala

Posted on December 16th, 2009 by in Music Industry News

I’ve always liked Apple. They may not have invented digital music, or the portable digital player, but they fine-tuned them and distributed them to mass markets to perfection. More music is being heard by more people in more places than ever before, and for that, we should be grateful. (Figuring out how to strategize and [...]

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Spotify Royalties Under Fire from Artists – Should You Expect Income from Streaming?

Posted on November 30th, 2009 by in Music Industry News

For many members searching for jobs in the music industry, each little bit of income helps, and streaming seemed to offer hope of another revenue source to help make a living from music. However, Spotify, the streaming application that is immensely popular in Europe (and due to launch in the US soon, has come under [...]

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Spotify to hit the US?

Posted on July 31st, 2009 by in Music Industry News

The music streaming app that is currently taking the UK and Europe by storm is looking to set-up in the US in the very near future. (This may well help create music industry jobs in the USA, so keep checking the Jobs Board!) Founded by two Swedish entrepreneurs, Spotify has over six million tracks available [...]

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iTunes goes DRM-free

Posted on January 8th, 2009 by in Music Industry News

Well, it’s always been on the cards, but the biggest news of the week is that Apple have finally been able to make iTunes tracks available without the Digital Rights Management that was essentially ‘watermarked’ into all previous tracks. So you can now buy a tune from iTunes and play it on Microsoft’s Zune player [...]

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