And some fake copyright VHS warnings.
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Category: Industry
And it’s-a-one for the money, two for the money.
Spotify’s extruded pop product substitute is worth it for the industry outrage.
Spotify outrages the record industry by not giving them even more free money. The actual listeners are fine with this.
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Links: FACT using Grenfell Tower for marketing, notice-and-stay-down, perpetual copyright.
Apparently Kodi software is flammable. Who knew?
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Links: Music industry sexism, vinyl video game music, why do we want sound recording anyway?
As usual, the comments on an article on why feminism is needed in the music industry demonstrate why feminism is needed in the music industry.
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eMusic returns! Or something of that name.
Remember eMusic? I was a happy customer back in the day.
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Warner does a deal with YouTube. The record industry is outraged!
Warner has signed a completely expected deal with YouTube, because they do great business with each other and fully wish to continue. The music industry is hilariously outraged that Warner did the obvious deal with a fantastic and essential publicity outlet.
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Links: How to rig the charts, musicians’ vending machine, a malware music player, Internet Archive.
I’m sure Harry Styles will categorically deny that anyone from any of his teams paid anyone to do anything whatsoever toward this chart rigging effort. Any moment now.
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The music industry’s sense of entitlement. How to get the money rolling again.
Eamonn Forde opines at The Quietus that the reports of the record industry’s rebirth are greatly exaggerated.
You’d almost think there’d been some sort of horrifying plummet in people’s financial circumstances.
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Links: Studio 54, Rage, The KLF.
And Rocknerd’s wise words on Blockchain reaching a wider audience.
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Why Spotify wants some Blockchain; how music industry Blockchain dreams work.
A detailed examination of why music industry Blockchain (capital B) dreams are not going to work out.
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Followups: Free money from YouTube, windowing and piracy, totally not Pono.
Ongoing sagas that remain perennial bad pennies of stupid.
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Links: Portuguese DRM bypass law, majors and streaming money, personal desktop torrent search.
Some fun with DRM, BitTorrent and the legal streaming money never reaching the artists anyway.
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The Spotify-Universal 2017 deal, with windowing, probably won’t change much.
Apart from revitalising the torrent sites, but everyone seems to have noticed that bit now.
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Record labels want money YouTube doesn’t earn, just because Google has some and they’d like it.
With cites that they know this money doesn’t actually exist yet.
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Links: The history of records, copyright troll woes, Chuck Berry in space, the other Top 40 charts.
“My mum had a record of Winston Churchill speeches that played at 16⅔rpm. As we never owned a record player with that speed, I only ever heard the Pinky & Perky version played at 33.”
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Links: SoundCloud $70m, Facebook the label, Discogs, Bitcoin and Boss Baby.
why does bitcoin keep coming up in my music links WHYYY
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Links: Spotify to reduce convenience, the Velvets’ banana, Cosey Fanni Tutti goes establishment.
Never interrupt the music industry when it is making a mistake.
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Industry links: Spotify playlist SEO, SoundCloud financial woes, Cogent update.
Everything is broken, nothing works and we’re all doomed.
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Industry links: Facebook, video, Cogent Pirate Bay block, CMJ charts dead, DistroKid retrospective.
The usual cavalcade of brilliance and competence.
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Links: Facebook goes music industry, Denuvo DRM cracked in record time, a BitTorrent YouTube, women and jazz.
assorted bile and horror
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Links: Dee Dee Ramone, how to work Spotify, talking rubber, American Recordings.
GIRLS LEAD PUNK ARMY ON RAMPAGE
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Links: What.CD successors, the 1939 Voder, anaemic chart sales, the bagpipe AI.
Roko’s Basilisk, right, but on the bagpipes.
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Links: Storytelling, the rump hi-res streaming consortium, the end of newspaper critics, Jim Bob.
Also, Wikipedia started sixteen years ago today.
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Links: Selling yourself as a streaming artist, vacuum tubes, indie conspiracy theories.
BOTTOM VIEW: Basing diagram, JEDEC 9A.
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Links: Ticketmaster, digital property, not liking music, the biggest UK debut album of 2016.
Every nun needs a Synthi.
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Streaming links: Google and SoundCloud, hi-res audio, codec snobbery.
From the world of your music on other people’s computers.
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Digital distribution: Streaming takes over, Apple goes label, go to your listeners, Bandcamp 2016.
The fine art of getting your music to paying listeners as of late 2016.
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From the high seas: Pirate Bay in Australia, DDOS attacks, Kickass Torrents revived, monetising piracy.
Yo ho ho and three megabytes of hot RAM.
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Links: Side-Line goes full Nazi, CDDB bought by Nielsen, 23 random Naked Lunch quotes.
Side-Line indulges a straight-up Nazi, Nielsen buys Gracenote metadata, random Burroughs readings from The Naked Lunch.
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Niland’s music classifier and similarity searcher, and a demo you can play with.
Niland are an “AI startup” who sell a search and recommendation engine for music companies. They have a demo for you to play with: paste in a track from SoundCloud and see what it makes of it.
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