I am really not sure what Garageband is attempting to do here but this has to qualify for the absolute worse podcast interface. It appears they want you to upload your audio and splice in some music and then publish it on their site. If anyone actually uses this please let me know how it went. [promoting podcasting">GarageBand]
Debut Podcast Features Original Content From Hard Rock Trio Danko Jones (May 16, 2005 New York, NY) Razor & Tie Entertainment today announces a label-wide launch of an ongoing series of podcasts. The company is harnessing the new medium to expose fans to new music from the company's burgeoning roster and to enable their artists to reach a wider audience.
Seoul-based Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced that it has developed a Solid State Disk (SSD) with a capacity of up to 16GB. Using two NAND-based modules, the SSD is a low power, lightweight storage media for notebook PCs and, eventually, consumer electronic devices.
I was talking with Lucas Gonze who is the creator of webjay.org and was kicking around some ideas for the Techpodcasts.com website. Little did I know that something he has been working on for a long time is part of the new fantastically priced Yahoo Music platform. "XSPF is an open-source music playlist format. It hit the bigtime this week
The number one question I keep getting from people since the announcement of my book on Podcasting is the issues surrounding playing RIAA controlled music on a Podcast. My simple response you better have all the licenses or that strong arm 4 letter word group known as the RIAA will come knocking. I have also been asked about Mashups. Well
I have a thing about Walmart and it isn't necessarily positive but we will save that for another article. Walmart is offering a service now were you can order a custom CD. Obviously they have had the download service but this is an interesting twist. I wonder if the CD's that are burned by Walmart are truly CD quality. May
I knew it was only a matter of time before people started complaining about audio quality, DRM etc.. Seems their is a growing discord with online music sales. Real good article but the juicy stuff is in the comments. [BBC]
I've been working on this subject for quite some time now, and people have practically flamed me to death for it. Yet now, with the backing of CNN.com, I have VALIDATION! Sweet, sweet validation. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Combine the iPod with satellite radio and what do you get? "The killer app," said Kit Spring, an analyst with Stifel, Nicolaus
This is a great article and I think Mark Cuban's comments are dead on accurate. The RIAA has not a clue of the actual impact File Sharing has had on the market place. For those not aware Mark Cuban bank rolled the legal challenge of MGM vs Grokster and those of you that worry about the impact of this Supreme
Digital Rights Management (DRM)is a tool that doesn't reflect the general preference of legal music downloaders. Before you read on, hoping that I will advocate for the free distribution of music, let me warn you: I'm a strong supporter of copyright and the protection of intellectual property; I want artists and distributors to make a decent living, but I'm frustrated by the current misuse of digital technology that attempts to thwart illegal distribution. In practice, DRM makes creates compatibility problems that make it excessively difficult, and in most cases, impossible, to listen to music that has been purchased online.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project reported this week that 36 million Americans, 27 percent of internet users, report having downloaded music or video files. Half of this group have skirted the traditional peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and commercial online distribution services (i.e. Napster, iTunes). This is a significant number of digital media users whose sharing of digital media is untraceable by the recording industry and copyright holders.