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Obviously the name is a play on "radio", but, they say they pronounce it "ar-dee-oh". What I am talking about is the new service Rdio, which is in private beta right now. My attempts to get into the beta program, so far, have failed, but I will tell you what I have been able to learn from "other sources". First,
I remember it well. Back around October of 2004, I first heard the word “podcast” used on The David Lawrence Show via my XM Satellite Radio. It sounded interesting, and I wrote it down on my driver logbook cover with the idea of looking it up later. I heard David mention it again once or twice over the next few
It's a sad day for Podcasters and podcast listeners who enjoyed the podsafe music from GarageBand.com. I got this email this morning: It’s been over ten years since we started helping discover independent music on the ol’ interwebs. Things have changed a lot since then. Most of those changes have been good and some of them have been bad. Some
Last night, I downloaded some music from Amazon for the first time and I was both irritated and pleasantly surprised by the experience. I'd gone to Amazon because I'm not an iPod owner and wanted to get some DRM-free music for playing via a DLNA media server and also my Palm Pre. (I know this is a tech site but just
The IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) has published its annual review of the music industry and there's some pretty interesting stuff. The headline figure is that music sales fell 7.2% in 2009, mainly in USA and Japan but many other countries, such as Australia and the UK, saw growth. Overall, the industry was worth US$ 17billion. The larger
The UK's Performing Rights Society (PRS) announced their financial results for 2009 today and for the first time, the growth in royalties from on-line music exceeded the fall in revenue from the sales of CDs and DVDs. The PRS reports that on-line revenues in 2009 grew to a little over £30m, which was an increase of just under £13m, but
The London-based think tank Demos has concluded that illegal downloaders spend more money on music. The headline figure, based on the survey of over 1000 people between 16 and 65, is that the average spend per annum on CDs or vinyl was £75 (GBP) for file-sharers compared with only £51 for all surveyed. The notion that illegal downloaders actually spend more