Mar 1st, 2010
Subscription music on ISP level
Two major ISPs each offer 6+ mio singles on a subscription. Download, stream and loads of DRM.
Feb 23rd, 2010
How to make money as a musician
Be great – and be heard. Good advice doesn’t always have to be that complex. It simply isn’t enough having a label push you onto radio (or MTV) for that matter. It could be part of it, though. The be heard half is about getting attention. No matter how good you are, you need attention. No one is [...]
Nov 26th, 2009
Links Nov 09
Business Matters: Last.fm, Xbox, SXSW More p2p – Sweden grows music purchasing (because p2p downloads stopped?). Denmark has succes with ISP music subscription – musicians make money… Where is the traction – either way – and why do the labels insist on dying. Sigh. Oh, and other fun stuff in the ‘we dont have a business [...]
Nov 3rd, 2009
ccMixter transtions from Creative Commons to ArtisTech: No business model, no thoughts – thumbs up.
What’s this ccMixter? ccMixter a remix community. Celebrating mashup and free culture. It’s also a promotional tool for Creative Commons, and the software powering the site, is an open source option for connecting progressive licensing on media sites. What’s this ArtisTech? A new music label, that says it tries to benifit from and develop models within a Music [...]
Nov 3rd, 2009
BlueBeat streaming: Shutting Down … ?
0,25 a track for downloads. Or simply use high quality streams. While it seems like the US based company behind BlueBeat has a noble and meanfull vision: stopping the insanity overpriced online music, it just can’t keep going this way. Itunes won’t be happy, the labels won’t be happy. Even the crybaby artists, that don’t own the [...]
May 11th, 2009
Time flies – hardly on music
Wow. Time keeps on flying – almost a month has passed since last update. And yet nothing amazing has happened. Why? Howcome nobody wants to talk about the success of Danish ISP TDC – that provides unlimited use of music on mobile and internet platforms. Two million users – tremondous amounts of paid money to artists and labels [...]
Apr 15th, 2009
Musician – Stay away from Twitter, Facebook and social media in general
After thinking about it, I retract my previous post: Stay the fuck away from all things social. Including twitter, facebook and everything else. STOP CRAPPING ALL OVER MY INTERNET. That goes for all search engine specialists as well – full of shit assholes, crapping all over useful audio results with spammy link schemes and click [...]
Apr 14th, 2009
Why Musicians Need To Be On Twitter
It’s distributed service. Take it anywhere – more or less. Easy to connect to other artists. Networking will never die. It’s shiny and 2.0. Hell yeah. and one more very important thing. Twitter is lifestreaming, microblogging and a whole lotte fancy stuff made simple. My version: an open textmessage. Wikipedia can give you a twitter low-down. Facebook is fine. But [...]
Mar 27th, 2009
A bit more on Imeem – and music streaming
Related to the previous rant, Techcrunch sums up label conservatism. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Flostaudio.com%2Fa-bit-more-on-imeem-and-music-streaming%2F'; addthis_title = 'A+bit+more+on+Imeem+%26%238211%3B+and+music+streaming'; addthis_pub = '';
Mar 26th, 2009
Business models – accept the markets terms
Hypebot has an interesting piece on Imeem. Of course Imeem is in trouble. Just like all the other Music 2.0 and oldschool Web 1.0 conservative labels. The labels are strangling whatever pennies they can in order to pay premium bonuses to the boards before the nepotists finally jump. You can only do so much assf*****. All thoose [...]
Jan 4th, 2009
Soundsnap now paid membership
Sign up for SoundSnap, it’s free. Download five sounds a month. I thought it looked wrong last time I visited the site. Right for some. Annual license is $149 which will allow unlimited downloads. Anyway, just another ‘we are free until we have enough users’ – site. Hope it pans out for them. I have to pan [...]
Dec 11th, 2008
Whatever happend to ccMixters and Creative Commons RFP
I could go ask over on ccmixter – I probably will. But seemingly there has been no interest. Everybody that reads about Creative Commons know they’d love to spin off a good story about a project like this. Fancy that… It’s obvious that there would be some branding value in the ccmixter site – it’s visited by [...]
Aug 3rd, 2008
Mobile Beat Maker, Produce Create Experiment On The Fly
This product has been getting some buzz, and it is actually understandable why. The Beat Maker, by intua shows great promise. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Flostaudio.com%2Fmobile-beat-maker-produce-create-experiment-on-the-fly%2F'; addthis_title = 'Mobile+Beat+Maker%2C+Produce+Create+Experiment+On+The+Fly'; addthis_pub = '';
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