Sony expands Music Unlimited, its hopeful Spotify killer, to iPhone and iPod Touch. This homemade turntable is how to make Spotify social. Facebook's 'Listen' Button Plays Artists on Spotify, Mog, Rdio and More. Facebook's new Listen button instantly connects you with bands' music, played through Spotify, Rdio and other services.Screengrab: Evolver.fm.
Twitter’s message to musicians not yet on the site: sign up now! Twitter put the call out to musicians and artists on Friday with a message on its Twitter Media website encouraging them to sign up to the social networking site if they haven’t yet done so.
How Developers Are Shaping the Future of Music. That the music industry has radically changed in the last decade is a serious understatement.
Technology has altered everything from the creation of music to its distribution, upending retailers, studios and business models across the industry. But it's not all bad news. Music isn't dying so much as evolving, and the landscape is already beginning to look quite different. Not long ago, the professional music industry involved a complex but fixed set of players: artists, labels, managers, promoters and the like. Many of these roles have changed, but none have disappeared.
Every stakeholder in this new (and still emerging) digital music ecosystem plays their own important role in the creation and consumption of music. This weekend, coders and industry representatives gathered in San Francisco for Music Hack Day, a tradition that has spanned continents for the last four years. Audio compression: Difference engine: Music to their ears. SoundCloud CEO Alex Ljung’s 5 Favorite Sounds. SoundCloud, the beautiful, easy-to-use widget becoming more and more ubiquitous on the web, has reached 8.5 million users--including 50 Cent and Russell Brand.
The last million of them were added in the span of 45 days. For SoundCloud co-founder and CEO Alexander Ljung, a few stand out, incuding the sound of 10,000 bats gettin’ it on. Ljung also tells Fast Company he’s keen on the way journalists have used SoundCloud to capture stories--such as ABC News Radio’s Dan Patterson recording the sounds of Occupy Wall Street in New York. And he’s been impressed by the way candidates in the San Francisco mayoral race have used it to spread their messages and respond to potential constituents. SoundCloud has also highlighted the sounds of cities and towns across America (see: SoundCloud Local: Ann Arbor).
Facebook Launches 'Listen With,' Lets You DJ for Friends. Facebook wants you to listen to music with friends — even if you're not in the same room.
The social network announced a new feature Thursday called "Listen With" that gives users a chatroom in which to share songs. They get to DJ the tunes they are streaming via services such as Spotify and Rdio. Real-time sharing from such services was introduced with Open Graph in September. Spotify Radio vs. Pandora: Hands-on showdown. 19 Biggest Social Media Moments of 2011. These days, it seems we can't go a week without encountering a viral video, a meme sensation or a new digital movement.
The year 2011 forged an unprecedented path for these such social media phenomena. Whether that meant influencing YouTube marketing with a viral advertising campaign or mobilizing the online communication of an entire political movement, people are discovering that social media is one of the most powerful vehicles for change the world has ever experienced. Pandora CTO Reveals Half of The U.S. Pays $0 For Music. Today at GigaOm’s RoadMap conference in San Francisco, Pandora CTO Tom Conrad revealed that his company aims to monetize the vast majority of listeners who pay little or nothing per year for music.
Conrad explained that “Over half of the U.S. doesn’t pay anything for music each year”. He continued that another 40% of the population only pay about $15 a year, the cost of an album or two. While there are opportunities to build businesses on the 10% who are willing to pay more, Pandora’s plans to focus on monetizing the majority via advertisements. Other music companies might be wise to target the non-paying segment as well. Conrad was asked about whether the rapidly growing Spotify was a threat. Here Come The Spotify Apps! Spotify opened up its code to iOS developers on Wednesday, with big implications for music on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.
Starting today, developers can build Apple iOS apps that play anything from Spotify’s entire 15-million-song-plus music catalog, with support for full-track streaming, playlists, search, and so on. Want to build an iPad app that plays just about every song in the world whose title starts with the letter ‘B’? How music changes our brains - Music. Music has never been more accessible.
Just a decade ago, we were lugging around clunky portable CD players that weighed as much as a hardcover book and would skip whenever we made any sudden movement. Now our entire record collection (and thanks to new companies like Spotify, almost any other song on the planet) can fit into our phones.