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Spotify Launches Music Player for Web, Blogs, and Tumblr | Evolver.fm

Spotify Launches Music Player for Web, Blogs, and Tumblr | Evolver.fm | Soundtrack | Scoop.it

Spotify continued its quest to become the operating system of music on the internet with today’s launch of an embeddable music player that puts legal tunes on websites and blogs, for free, while compensating copyright holders.

 

http://evolver.fm/2012/04/11/spotify-launches-music-player-for-web-blogs-and-tumblr/

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Spotify: Staggering music releases (like movies) won't work

Spotify: Staggering music releases (like movies) won't work | Soundtrack | Scoop.it
Hollywood studios made billions by strictly controlling distribution. Some music acts think it may be profitable to restrict access in a similar way. Read this blog post by Greg Sandoval on Media Maverick.
Lucas Cook's curator insight, January 14, 2014 1:10 PM

Pros: I could really only come up with one good pro to the fact of forcing listeners into subscription; this won't turn everyone away from the apps. Not everyone is going to be opposed to the purchasing monthly, yearly, etc. of these apps. 

 

Cons: You are going to push some listeners away to illegal site, and in return none of their money will end up circulating to the artists or labels. 

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JOHN WILLIAMS’ 80th BIRTHDAY SPECIAL – PART IV | The Cinematic Sound Radio Show | The Home For Film, TV and Video Game Music Radio Since 1996

JOHN WILLIAMS’ 80th BIRTHDAY SPECIAL – PART IV | The Cinematic Sound Radio Show | The Home For Film, TV and Video Game Music Radio Since 1996 | Soundtrack | Scoop.it

In part four of Cinematic Sound’s five-part radio series celebrating John Williams’ 80th birthday we will be looking back the years spanning 1985-1996. You will hear music from such films as SPACECAMP, THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK, EMPIRE OF THE SUN, BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, STANLEY AND IRIS, HOOK, FAR AND AWAY, SCHINDLER’S LIST, SLEEPERS and many more. 

 

http://www.cinematicsound.net/?p=1933

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HTC rumored to be working on a streaming music service

HTC rumored to be working on a streaming music service | Soundtrack | Scoop.it

HTC Corp., one of the earliest champions of Android-based smartphones seems to have fallen on hard times, thanks to growing power of Samsung and Apple. But the Taiwanese phone maker isn’t ready to call it quits and is said to be working on a slew of new products including a music streaming service, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans.

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Hear-Like-Buy: Why Spotify Is Marketing, Not Commerce - MTT - Music Think Tank

Hear-Like-Buy: Why Spotify Is Marketing, Not Commerce - MTT - Music Think Tank | Soundtrack | Scoop.it

You can’t read an article in the music press without tripping over somebody complaining about Spotify royalties. You’ve heard the chorus: Spotify is destroying what’s left of the CD market. It is cannibalizing iTunes. It is ripping off indie artists. And so on.

So, you think. Spotify must be pretty bad.

But is it?

Amber Vega's curator insight, June 17, 2015 5:13 PM

I would have to wholehartedly agree with the article- to an extent. Musicians are still making money, despite the fact that its a small amount. The majority of the money that musicians make come from merch and concert sales, and fans will feel very little sympathy for the affluent musician who publically complains for their disdain of these "freemium" sites. Yes, streaming websites enable musicians to market their music to the masses, and yet are still pocketing from the millions of streams that are played at home in a continuous basis. 

Ryan Hayes's curator insight, June 20, 2021 11:21 PM

Mark Doyon (founder and creative director of the music label Wampus Multimedia) presents a different perspective than most on the Spotify royalties debate. He believes music streaming is providing a service, as opposed to a product, and feels the artists should be grateful for the exposure they receive on a premier streaming platform such as Spotify, and for the fact they are paid a "modest amount" for that exposure. 

 

I agree that the marketing and exposure provided by digital streaming platforms are valuable and necessary components to an artist building a following, but the fact remains that if artist cannot support themselves, they will not continue to create music.

 

Music Think Tank is an online collaborative forum, blog, and music industry news site founded by Bruce Houghton and operated in partnership with music news site Hyberbot. The collaborative nature of the site means individual article authorship needs to be verified for adequate credentials and I generally would not use this site as a resource. However, an opinion article by the founder of an independent music label that doesn't lend itself to a particular bias (such as this article) provided an informative read on the opposing side of the DSP royalties debate.

Jeremy Everhart's curator insight, December 12, 2021 6:16 PM
Spotify is taking digital music to a level where it can be heard on a large scale very easily.  This is good and bad.  The pros of this are being able to reach a larger fan base more easily.  The cons are that by taking music digitally it hinders physical distribution by creating no real need for the actual discs.
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UMG Executive: "In a World of Streaming Services, Physical Product Becomes More Important..."

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This was the morning discussion at Midem, where topics once again turned towards 'cannibalism,' streaming services, and buying music.

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Spotify to End Unlimited Free Streaming for Some Users Next Week

Spotify to End Unlimited Free Streaming for Some Users Next Week | Soundtrack | Scoop.it
Spotify free unlimited music streaming desktop and phone application, made popular by Facebook merge, will end six months after U.S. launch.
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Spotify To Launch in Germany Tuesday

Spotify To Launch in Germany Tuesday | Soundtrack | Scoop.it
The territory marks the largest launch for the Swedish online service since going live in the U.S. last year.

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/spotify-launch-germany-tuesday-298519?

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The Cloud Is Running Out of Room: Here's How It Affects Spotify, Pandora and Others | Billboard.biz

The Cloud Is Running Out of Room: Here's How It Affects Spotify, Pandora and Others | Billboard.biz | Soundtrack | Scoop.it

The digital world is moving toward the cloud, but music and movies won't be following any time soon. The world is running out of wireless bandwith, and in order to survive,...


Via Eric St-Pierre
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Myspace Music Player attracts a million new users [with chart]

Myspace Music Player attracts a million new users [with chart] | Soundtrack | Scoop.it
Myspace today announced receiving more than 1 million new sign-ups in the last month, due primarily to its Myspace Music Player, which brings the service's monthly users to 25 million.
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Rdio shows Android love with totally new app

Rdio shows Android love with totally new app | Soundtrack | Scoop.it
Rdio has reignited the intense competition among the streaming music services by totally redesigning its Android app, drawing attention back to the listener experience, which is now equal to its iPhone sibling.
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Music Week - Music Week - Music business magazine - Spotify’s Daniel Ek: Music industry 'entering golden age'

Music Week - Music Week - Music business magazine - Spotify’s Daniel Ek: Music industry 'entering golden age' | Soundtrack | Scoop.it

Spotify CEO and founder Daniel Ek has claimed that the music industry is entering a “golden age” as music consumption patterns show that streaming and the social sharing of music is boosting money and morale.

Andre' Jones's curator insight, April 25, 2016 3:48 PM
This article is talking specifically about Spotify, but there are also alternative streaming services that are helping the music industry do exactly what this article is talking about, and that's to enter a "golden age".
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Intel Buys RealNetworks’ Patents in $120 Million Deal

Intel Buys RealNetworks’ Patents in $120 Million Deal | Soundtrack | Scoop.it
Intel Corp. is buying hundreds of RealNetworks Inc.’s patents and software for $120 million. The agreement allows RealNetworks to continue using many of them, and also calls for the two companies to collaborate in the future.
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Spotify reportedly planning to cut down free music streaming | ZDNet

Spotify reportedly planning to cut down free music streaming | ZDNet | Soundtrack | Scoop.it
Spotify reportedly planning to cut down free music streaming
By Rachel King | January 6, 2012, 9:59am PST

 

Summary: Spotify reportedly calling the party off and will be limiting how much music can be streamed for free.

 

Say it ain’t so, Spotify.

The digital music streaming service is reportedly planning to limit just how much music one can stream for free, according to The Business Insider.

 

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/spotify-reportedly-planning-to-cut-down-free-music-streaming/66397

Xander Chamberlain's curator insight, September 11, 2013 11:30 PM

Spotify would lose a lot of users if it were to reduce, or (God-forbid) remove, free streaming. A lot of users I've talked to like Spotify because it is a well-formatting program that allows them to listen to whatever music they want with no strings attached. Spotify has millions of paid subscribers, but it doesn't seem to be concerned for the free users who are listening to their paid advertisements. I think a lot of Spotify users would start using Pandora, Rdio, last.fm, Grooveshark, or other similar services that allow free listening with commercials.

Tara Pfeiffer's curator insight, March 16, 2014 9:46 PM

talks about how spotify will start asking for subscriptions instead of being free 

Sean Riggins's curator insight, September 13, 2014 11:30 AM

This article comes from zdnet.com, site that covers 24/7 news on emerging trends, analysis, and technology. The article talks about Spotify's plan to cut down free music streaming. Previously, Spotify would let its user stream music for free with advertisements. The company now plans to cut down to 10hrs a month in streaming and limits a user play individual tracks only 5 times over per month. I thought this article was supplemental to my scoop because it demonstrates how companies are shifting consumers to this new sales model.