Category: Music

There is a Very Interesting Timeline of the CARP rulings over on linuxjournal. CARP sets royalty rates for web sites that are streaming radio stations. The royalty rates are so high that pretty much every web radio station will be driven out of business. I had assumed that was the RIAA’s plans, and I still…

Strange Sandwich Music looks to be a blog of new music. It seems to be the artists that post new songs as they become available on mp3.com. It seems to be made up of a small group of aquaintances which could be a bit of a limitation. Still, it’s interesting.

Woo hoo! There’s a new iTunes (mp3 player for Macs) out. more…

Universal announced they’re going to make about a 10th of their catalog available for download from EMusic. This is the first of the music label proposals I might consider supporting. I need more details though. I mean they’re only talking about a 1000 albums, and while I might be OK paying $10-20/month for a music…

So, I should be sleeping, but instead I’m bouncing around to random web sites and I come across one that has a music survey. Being bored, I decide what the hell. Name a song that… 1 (of 50) makes you want to dance: Katrina and the Waves – Walking on Sunshine More

If you ever listen to music, or if you ever purchase music, or and this is particularly important, if you ever create music, you must go read this article Janis Ian wrote about the real role of internet music downloads. I quote Costing me money? I don’t pretend to be an expert on intellectual property…

Not enough Iron Maiden. *singing* Alexander the Great…His name struck fear into hearts of men */singing* Ahh… Earnest heavy metal based on historical figures. Good times. Good times.

Interesting Salon Story about the fact that despite downloads accounting for more than actual record sales, record sales haven’t been impacted. Stan Liebowitz, the subject of the interivew, doesn’t seem to understand how that’s possible. It seems pretty simple to me. Most downloads are listened to once if at all. The fact that you’ll grab…

Mixmatcher is a tool to share your musical ideas and expand your musical tastes. It seems like a cool idea and it’s certainly well done. Generally I’m not a fan of these let’s get together and build a list of stuff types of community tools. The major problem here is that there’s no way to…

Just bookmarking this for later: Save Internet Radio! — Encourage the U.S. Copyright Office to reject the CARP recommendations