What’s Cheaper Than iTunes?
Somewhere between the lands of “legally purchased music” and “stolen music” lies a new land – “legally sellable music – not sure of the legality of the purchase.” Sounds strange – but it’s true. So let’s give you some details of the marketplace for digital music.
Legally Purchased Digital Music
While the newspaper industry is [...]
Napster – A Decade of Music
Back in 1969 Don McLean wrote these immortal words:
“Now for ten years we’ve been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rollin’ stone,
But that’s not how it used to be.
When the jester sang for the king and queen,
In a coat he borrowed from james dean
And a voice that came from you and me”
While people [...]
Ffffoundtape – not worth finding!
Right on the homepage, Ffffoundtape.com bills itself as “the lovechild of Ffffound! and Muxtape.” While I give them credit for honesty, I have to say that bastard offspring, not lovechild, is a better term. As they admit, Ffffoundtape copies ideas from everybody, but much to my dismay they bring nothing new to the table.
Using Ffffoundtape.com [...]
What’s New In Pandora’s Box
Pandora the free online- radio service that generates playlists based on users’ musical preferences reported that it believes it will be profitable next year for the first time since the company started in 2000 (check out our earlier review of Pandora if your not familiar with this site).
If this turns out to be true than [...]
blip.fm – still just a blip on the music world
A few weeks ago we published “blip.fm – just a blip on the music world” which reviwed Blip.fm. Many people compare this site to Twitter for music. Instead of telling people what you’re doing or thinking about in 140 characters or less, you can tell your contacts what you’re listening to. However, just [...]
Free and Legal Music
When you read about all the budding Internet sites you don’t often hear the words “Free” and “Legal” in the same breath. You have sites like iTunes which are certainly legal – but not free. Likewise you have sites like Seeqpod, Napster and others that have tried to provide free music without the [...]
Get Ready to Blerp to the music!
Do you remember the first time you heard the work “tweet” and it didn’t refer to a bird? Or where you were when you first dugg – without so much as a shovel? Well after reading this we hope you will rush over to Blerp and join the next wave of social media. [...]
What’s next in Online Music – Tunesbag and Mixcloud
Here at MusicPlayer we’ve gone behind the scenes at some new products that are so new they are still in beta, pre-release testing to those of us who aren’t fluent in the Geek language. Let’s take a look at the future of Internet radio in Mixcloud and the hope for effective music backup and [...]
Last.fm charges and Seeqpod dies
While music is supposed to soothe the the soul, the battle over whether music is free is anything but soothing. This week saw two major skirmishes and the “pay for music” forces clearly won both battles. However, these events also show that while bullying tactics will win in the legal courts they won’t win [...]
Who likes iLike?
I remember trying to stay awake in biology class thinking “exactly when will I ever need to know about symbiosis – the close union of two dissimilar organisms.” When I first started using iLike I had one of those “aha” moments when I realized “symbiosis, I finally get it!” On its own iLike is not [...]
