New Music Streaming Service Rdio: How Does it Stack Up?

Posted on 07. Jun, 2010 by refe.

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Rdio is a brand new streaming music service from the creators of Skype and Kazaa that is currently in private beta. Trials are currently invitation only. For information on free invitations please see below. This is certainly an interesting time to be launching a music streaming service. Today, Monday, June 7th is the first day [...]

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What does it take to earn a living with digital music?

Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by refe.

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I’m sure many of you have seen this already, but it’s just too good not to share. Below is a beautiful info-graphi.c that breaks down the amount of music in various digital formats that a single artist would have to sell in order to meet the US minimum wage in a given month. As you [...]

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Spotify No More Indie-Friendly than Radio?

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by refe.

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When Pandora and Last.fm arrived on the scene and Spotify was still just a twinkle in Daniel Ek’s eye, many independent artists and fans looked to online music streaming as a new beginning. These services promised a more democratic approach to music discovery than traditional radio and offered the chance to wash away the stains [...]

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Grooveshark Gets a Makeover

Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by refe.

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The music streaming market is quickly heating up, even as many question the financial sustainability of the streaming model. Spotify seems to be the golden boy of the press (it also happens to be my personal preference) but it certainly isn’t the only contender. Only a few weeks ago Grooveshark made the headlines as the [...]

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EMI Drops Lawsuit, Licenses Entire Catalogue to Grooveshark

Posted on 13. Oct, 2009 by refe.

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You might remember a while back that EMI filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against music streaming service Grooveshark. Well, in an interesting twist on that story it looks like EMI has not only dropped the lawsuit, it has now licensed it’s entire catalogue to Grooveshark in the US. This is the first major label to [...]

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Win Spotify Invites from Creative Deconstruction

Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by refe.

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Yesterday I posted a review of music streaming platform Spotify. Spotify has been available in the UK for a while, but the platform is only now about to become widely available in the US. Currently, the only way for US users to get access is through an invite. Fortunately, the good folks over at Spotify [...]

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Review: Does Spotify Live Up to the Hype?

Posted on 11. Oct, 2009 by refe.

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The internet fairies were good to me last week, dropping two exciting little goodies into my inbox. The first was to Spotify, which has been available in Europe for a while now but has yet to be released here in the States. The second was the much anticipated communications and collaboration platform Google Wave. I [...]