Category: Digital Music
Opinion: Ad-supported music downloads hit all the wrong notes
Stuart Dredge writes…
The music biz is an industry in search of a viable business model right now. Figures released by the IFPI earlier this week showed that while legal music downloads rose 85% last year, that growth was outweighed by an 11% drop in physical CD sales – meaning that overall, global music revenues fell by 5%, which represents more than a billion dollars less than in 2005.
Shiny Video Interview: Kat chats to Head of Entertainment at T-Mobile about their Music Jukebox service
As Stuart reported on Tuesday, T-Mobile has launched a new service, Music Jukebox, which allows users to download music tracks straight to their mobile phones or PCs. I took some time on Tuesday to chat to Damian Byrne, the Head of Entertainment at T-Mobile…
AllofMP3.com is dead… Or is it?
If the music industry thought it had killed off Russian website AllofMP3.com, it can think again. Despite reports yesterday that the site has shut down for good, the people behind it appear to have simply set up under a different name, MP3Sparks.com.
T-Mobile launches dual-download Mobile Jukebox music store
T-Mobile has taken the wrappers off its new Mobile Jukebox service, which offers dual music downloads for your mobile phone and PC at a quid a pop.
Paul McCartney signs up for Apple's iTunes Festival
Sorry, that’s SIR Paul McCartney of Frogchorusville, I always forget. Anyway, 350 lucky Macca fans will get up close and personal with their idol, when he plays Apple’s iTunes Festival in London next month.
The ultimate nightmare iTunes party playlist
Poor old James Blunt. He may have guarded the Queen Mum’s coffin, but the Great British public hasn’t taken him to our hearts. In fact, we voted him as the most irritating song in history, ahead of Crazy Frog, Mr Blobby and Agadoo. Now that’s a slap in the face.
P2P file sharing now includes voting
Thanks to MP3 Rocket, a tweaked version of the Limewire P2P piracy solution.
Version 5.0 of MP3 Rocket lets users vote on which they like the most…
Avril Lavigne and Hilary Duff get virtual for Stardoll
The average Tech Digest reader shouldn’t really be frequenting online community Stardoll. Why? Well, it’s aimed at 10-17 year-old girls for starters. But if you have a daughter that age looking for Web 2.0 recommendations, it’s a snazzier alternative to the usual social networking sites.
Speed up your iTunes downloads with Swarmcast's Autobahn Accelerator
Autobahn Accelerator? Isn’t that something to do with playing your old Kraftwerk vinyl albums at the wrong speed? Sadly not (although it’s only a matter of time before some DJ does it, and invents a new genre of dance music).
Ringo Starr releases some Ring-o tones and DRM-free albums through EMI
Those ex-Beatles are busy little bees, aren’t they! Paul McCartney is swanning around town releasing records in Starbucks like they’re going out of fashion, and shilling himself to Apple like their whole previous brouhaha never existed.
Now Ringo Starr has jumped on the digital download bandwagon, signing an exclusive contract with Capitol/EMI who will make all his EMI works available in digital format from the 28th of August. But that’s not the best news…
