Jazz Odyssey

There are two key themes that define this year’s Music 2.0 Conference:
1. Folks are bullish on the full track mobile music business, with a la carte and subscription business models under consideration.
2. DRM is being more loudly questioned and decried, most notably by Yahoo Music chief David Goldberg during his keynote speech this [...]

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According to an article in today’s Wall Street Journal:
Amazon, the world’s No. 1 online retailer, is in advanced talks with the four global music companies about a digital-music service with a range of features designed to set it apart. Among them: Amazon-branded portable music players, designed and built for the retailer, and a subscription service [...]

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This article discusses a research initiative in which an artificial music market was created in an effort to figure the impact of social influence in driving the popularity of a song or an artist. Two groups were created and presented with music…one group was presented with music without any indicator of how others in [...]

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…commercially released singles, which were on the music industry’s endangered-species list at the turn of the 21st century, have come roaring back to life in the digital age. In some ways, it’s like the singles-driven 1950s and ’60s all over again — only with MP3s replacing 45s.
The trend towards single-song consumption of music was [...]

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A group of folks who were previously behind software/services like WinAmp, the Yahoo Music Service and Firefox have released Songbird, an open source desktop media player. Songbird offers access to a wide variety of music and video on the Internet, digital music services, podcasts, internet radio and more. It also offers a number [...]

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CDs are too expensive, 99 cents is a fair price for a song download, and radio remains the leading medium in music discovery. These are some of the results of the latest poll conducted by AP and Rolling Stone. An article with the summary of the poll results can be found here and [...]

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