Tag: Spotify
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Hack the charts
Amazing talk from Peter Filimore, an Australia security researcher, investigating hacking streaming services like Rdio and Spotify to make his test albums #1 and also get royalties. Amazing how little security checks there are…and how funny the ‘music’ and albums he put up there was, and some of the responses to his ‘Troll Music’ Also…
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It’s a Fine Day…
People Fall From Windows, But Just for A Small While….la la la la. Obtuse reason for that singalong is that Radio Clash Live has been upgraded to Airtime 2.4 which supports the new Opus codec…so I’ve changed the low quality stream to that format for a trial. Give it a spin – amazing quality for…
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Pandora, Spotify, the new devil?
Responding to this Stereogum article ‘Deconstructing: Pandora, Spotify, Piracy, And Getting Artists Paid‘ I thought I’d repost it here: Can we look at that specific example and devise ways to make piracy less convenient for fans and less profitable for distributors, because such reform is better for our cultural health over the short-, medium-, and…
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Kids, Lawns and Unhappy Campers
I must say this is a strange one – a NPR intern writes that she’s not owned many albums in her life but has 11,000 songs – fairly typical for that generation, as much as you might deplore it. Then Oscar the Grouch, sorry David Lowery comes along and his long toilet-roll rant about how…
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Calling out RIAA and MPAA lies over SOPA & PIPA
Or to use their term ‘misinformation’. Really the RIAA and MPAA don’t seem to know when to lick their wounds and give it a rest, judging by their petty and frankly wrong response to the successful Internet Blackout and actions by Wikipedia and Google – so it’s nice to see Techdirt calling them out line…
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How much does music really earn?
Answer: Depends on where you buy it from BUT that’s not the question you should be asking… The infographic from Information is Beautiful to the left has been doing the rounds recently, and causing some debate (there’s also been mucho discussion previously over at GYBO about digital distribution models vs streaming and physical CDs which…