there are a bunch of ways to analyze and recommend music. shazam, which uses acoustic fingerprinting to recognize songs based on 15-second excerpts transpose’s goombah and the indy project, which use collaborative filtering to recommend music music plasma, an interactive flash application which illustrates (perceived) relationships between artists. hit song science, which predicts where or …
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rockstars tell fans (how) to cirumvent DRM
the bands hate the “copy controlled” pseudo-CDs as much as you do: Now, in the most bizarre turn yet in the record industry’s piracy struggles, stars Dave Matthews Band, Foo Fighters and Switchfoot — and even Sony BMG, when the label gets complaints — are telling fans how they can beat the system. … A …
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SDIMF tells clear channel to sod off
Oh yeah… Starbucks called a month ago too. We told them to take a hike. San Diego’s independent coffee shops are sponsoring us :)
new music is good music
Our friends at the Bonita News took a moment to suggest their local venue book newer, up-and-coming acts: “I’d like to see more up-and-coming, rather than name acts that may or may not still have it,” he says. “Some of the newer people that Myra can count as a discovery.” Floridians deserve good music too, …
understanding record companies
When customers ask us why record companies have done various things (putting things out in one country but not others, pulling things out of print, playing games with pricing, etc), our stock answer has become “Because record companies are insane and evil.” The customers just tend to nod sagely. — Joseph Zitt
RIAA countersued
Tanya Andersen, a 41 year old disabled single mother living in Oregon, has countersued the RIAA for Oregon RICO violations, fraud, invasion of privacy, abuse of process, electronic trespass, violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, negligent misrepresentation, the tort of “outrage”, and deceptive business practices: 11. Settlement Support Center also falsely claimed that …
fighting the RIAA
some of the folks sued by the RIAA are fighting back: “If somehow this activity was to somehow been pinned to me, it was somehow done so fraudulently,” she says. “There is no way it came from my household. “I have the least expensive computer system you can buy from Dell. The type you order …
pitchfork <3 bigchampagne
puff piece on BigChampagne. this quote is perhaps the best part: “If you had a laptop under your arm and a pitch that went, ‘Wha wha wha wha Napster wha wha wha,’ you could get a meeting with anybody in the mediasphere,” recalls Garland. At one meeting, a famous producer turned down an urgent call …
radio sucks because sony pays to make it suck
Sony BMG settles NY radio probe for $10 million: “Instead of airing music based on the quality, artistic competition, aesthetic judgments or other judgments, radio stations are airing music because they are paid to do so in a way that hasn’t been disclosed to the public,” Spitzer said at a press briefing.