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koganbotMySpace is introducing its new "MySpace Music" today. A new model for listening/marketing music, with humongous amounts of free music streamed online, supported only by visual ads. Question is whether it will challenge iTunes and hasn't already been superseded by YouTube.
Lets you create vast playlists. But I probably won't get a chance to start playing with this until tonight.
Also, a really poor Reuters piece about some deal on online royalty pricing among "record labels, music publishers, songwriters, and online music services." Can't tell from the article what the significance of this is or who/what it will affect. Basically, the problem has been that royalty costs for online streaming have been prohibitively high, making it extremely hard for online radio and Pandora etc. to make a go of it (and of course therefore encouraging yet more people to download illegally or to head to YouTube to hear what they want). So, I don't know if the new rates take care of the problem or not. Remember, the major labels' first impulse since the rise of the 'Net has been to do the wrong thing. So, are they still on their first impulse here, or are they finally - with this and the MySpace deal - seriously taking account of reality?
Also, on first listen the Ne-Yo album has a beautiful sound from start to finish but may not have enough great songs to carry us further than the basic beauty.
Haven't heard the Jazmine Sullivan yet.
Lets you create vast playlists. But I probably won't get a chance to start playing with this until tonight.
Also, a really poor Reuters piece about some deal on online royalty pricing among "record labels, music publishers, songwriters, and online music services." Can't tell from the article what the significance of this is or who/what it will affect. Basically, the problem has been that royalty costs for online streaming have been prohibitively high, making it extremely hard for online radio and Pandora etc. to make a go of it (and of course therefore encouraging yet more people to download illegally or to head to YouTube to hear what they want). So, I don't know if the new rates take care of the problem or not. Remember, the major labels' first impulse since the rise of the 'Net has been to do the wrong thing. So, are they still on their first impulse here, or are they finally - with this and the MySpace deal - seriously taking account of reality?
Also, on first listen the Ne-Yo album has a beautiful sound from start to finish but may not have enough great songs to carry us further than the basic beauty.
Haven't heard the Jazmine Sullivan yet.
