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Links: Records and machinery.

26 August, 201626 August, 2016 Audio, Industry, Links, mp3, Musician, Record, Writing 0

Online streaming, ’70s music technology and ’90s record shops.

Kim Dotcom’s Mega 3, with Bitcoin. Two bad ideas that go worse together.

10 August, 201619 August, 2016 mp3 0

Kim Dotcom is a crook and a scammer. I feel this claim is sufficiently backed for me to make such a bold statement in England. The amazing thing was that the MPAA ever made a colourful racing identity like Dotcom look like the good guy.

Links: Microsoft DRM, Brian Eno, Lou Reed and Revolver.

7 August, 201626 December, 2016 mp3, Rock, Writing 0

While I’m busy faffing with the new theme …

Links.

8 June, 201625 August, 2016 Industry, Links, mp3, Musician 0

Music industry prays for rain, one of Mute’s sound engineers, NEVER run iTunes on your music production computer.

So let’s give this Spotify thing a go.

31 May, 201628 April, 2017 mp3, Opinion 0

I tried Last.fm around 2009 when I was applying for a job with them. The computer-generated personal radio station thing is amusing in its way. I can’t see myself wandering around with my phone using up my data plan on streaming music; it’ll be strictly a desktop, or rather laptop, thing.

Today’s links.

11 December, 201529 September, 2016 Esoterica, Industry, Links, mp3 0

“Happy Birthday” is finally acknowledged as being public domain. Probably. The history of the hidden track. Format-shifting music you’ve bought in the UK is

Links.

5 December, 20154 September, 2016 Industry, Links, Metal, mp3, Musician 0

A Swedish black metal band who studied Catholicism so intensely for more efficient blasphemy that they wound up converting to Catholicism. The pioneering women

Imogen Heap failing to catch all the money raining from the skies, on The Blockchain.

Imogen Heap doesn’t make the blockchain hype make sense either.

2 December, 20152 May, 2017 Industry, mp3 3

The big name in recent “blockchain” (Bitcoin) hype is Imogen Heap. As far as I can tell, it’s still the case that nothing about this is going to work.

The silver age of music: the Midas plague. How do you keep up?

26 July, 20153 May, 2017 mp3, Opinion 1

“Will I buy something? Pretty much not. If I see what I really want, I’ll buy the CD, or if I feel guilty, but physical records or even the CD things are just a nuisance. More and more things and piles of things, and guilt versus things, not having the things wins.”

Apple wants free streaming and videos on YouTube shut down.

4 May, 201528 April, 2017 Industry, mp3 0

Of course the new distribution channels are going to act like the old distribution channels. Apple wants to relaunch Beats as a new and

Help the suffering stars of Tidal.

28 April, 201528 August, 2016 Industry, mp3 0

With the tidal.com app sinking without trace for no better reason than that it’s terrible and there’s no conceivable reason to bother with it,

LOUDEST LINKS OF THE DAY. Spanish newspapers in thermonuclear foot-bullet hilarity.

14 December, 201428 August, 2016 Links, Media, mp3 0

THE LOUDEST SOUND SYSTEM IN THE WORLD. (It’s used for rocket science, of course.) Why you can’t get 4K Netflix on a Mac or

Links, links, tra la la.

14 September, 201428 August, 2016 Links, mp3, Pop 0

The Napster of the 1930s: bootleg lyric sheets. Dads at a One Direction concert. David Bowie, Brian Eno and Tony Visconti record “Warszawa.”

New Spotify stratagem: get your fans to stream your silence.

19 March, 201428 April, 2017 mp3 2

Mashing together public domain audio to get cash out of Spotify is too much like work. Vulfpeck, a funk band from Ann Arbor, have

Neil Young launches new music player based on magic beans and unicorn poop.

10 March, 20147 May, 2017 Audio, mp3 4

Neil Young has unveiled at SXSW a new $400 pocket music player that only plays one specific file type, encoded at “high resolution”. The

A real-time Internet radio search engine, from the creator of mp3.com.

16 November, 201320 May, 2017 mp3, Radio 0

Michael Robertson, original founder of mp3.com, has come up with an interesting new toy: the world’s first real-time radio search engine. It takes the

Do-it-yourself payola on Spotify.

31 October, 20133 January, 2017 Industry, mp3 0

In the olden days, you needed to bribe DJs or just buy a bootload of copies of your record yourself. These days, you can

Before record execs go to bed, they check the closet for Kim Dotcom.

23 June, 20124 April, 2017 mp3 2

The huge FBI raid on massive bootlegging entirely legitimate file upload site MegaUpload in January sure struck a blow for ethics, morality and of

Nobody cares about your copyright.

21 May, 20127 May, 2017 mp3, Your rights 11

In the Internet era, copyright laws are just getting tougher. But people really, really don’t give a shit. 61% of 15-25-year-olds in Sweden fileshare

Napster off, MAFIAAfire on, computers continue to subsume all comers.

2 December, 201110 May, 2017 mp3, Your rights 0

The network died years ago, but Napster’s vegetative corpse was finally taken off life support Wednesday. They can’t even make money from the name

Make my day.

30 March, 201110 May, 2017 mp3 0

Music services that aren’t iTunes need to be better to compete. Google is politely negotiating streaming. Amazon, on the other hand, has decided to

When you stream, you’re streaming with piracy!

26 February, 20119 January, 2017 mp3 2

My house has teenagers in it. They are actively interested in music, read Kerrang! (which is now a land of sensitive boys with floppy

If we bolt the barn door well enough, a horse is bound to show up.

2 February, 2011 mp3 0

Android phones are hugely popular, and now the most popular smartphone in the world. Google would love a music store for Android to compete

The source of the disease.

30 January, 201130 January, 2011 mp3 5

Here we see punk rocker John Robb declare it necessary to reshape the Internet to save the music industry as it was in the

John Peel’s Festive Sixty-Four.

24 November, 201015 November, 2016 Indie, mp3 0

Now here’s a remarkable work of cultural preservation: 64 gigabytes of Peel Sessions and shows as BitTorrent. That’s about twenty days’ music solid. You