Friday, August 27, 2010

Car Audio 2.0: Pandora, MP3s and Bluetooth Car Stereos (Digital Trends). Digital Trends - For the past few years, car companies have jumped on the digital media bandwagon, offering USB ports to load music from your iPod Touch and Bluetooth streaming audio to play tracks right from your iPhone. Now, new music technology is emerging that goes a step further [~] letting you play music from Pandora Radio or over a very high-speed wireless network. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] 11:09:35 AM

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Money for music in a digital age. Modern technology means that writing, recording and publishing music has never been easier, but getting paid for it is more of a challenge. [BBC News - Technology] 6:05:46 PM     Music tech guru says Web is not the enemy. Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman signed The Doors and pushed the adoption of the compact disc, but he has no time for music people who just want the Web to go away. [CNET News.com] 6:03:12 PM

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Apple Holding Music-Related Event On September 1 [Apple]. Apple has finally made their September event official, and it's coming sooner than many expected. Apple's "special event" will be held September 1 in San Francisco, and from the looks of things it's going to involve music. More » [Gizmodo] 9:45:12 PM

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Last waltz for Playlist.com?. Bankruptcy protection filing shows some major labels have canceled contracts with Playlist.com, but company says Chapter 11 will give it breather and allow it to find new funding. [CNET News.com] 4:56:54 PM     Denon Celebrates 100th Birthday With Gorgeous Turntable [Denon]. As part of its 100th anniversary, Denon has debuted a line of celebratory gear, including this beautiful direct drive turntable. The DP-A100 uses the same high-torque motor Denon developed in 1970, clad in glossy black and gold. [Denon via Core77] More » [Gizmodo] 11:07:01 AM

Friday, August 20, 2010

Audiogalaxy Makes Streaming Music from Your Desktop Dead Simple [Downloads]. Windows/Mac, iPhone/iOS: Want to stream music from your main stash to an iPhone, Android phone, or any browser? Audiogalaxy, once a Napster-like peer-to-peer service, seems reborn as a straight-up service for streaming your own music, and it's brazenly easy to set up. More » [Gizmodo] 11:05:52 AM     The Sound of Woodworms is Art [Art]. This piece of electronic art involves a microphone listening to 25 woodworms eating away at a log. Chomp, chomp, chomp. On exhibition in Ireland, currently. More » [Gizmodo] 10:57:18 AM

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Music royalty talks consider cell phone mandate (AP). AP - A long-running dispute between radio broadcasters and the recording industry over music royalties has taken an unexpected turn with a proposed settlement that threatens to drag the mobile phone industry into the ring. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] 1:42:13 PM

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

NAB, RIAA May Seek Mandate For FM Radios In Mobile Devices. Trintech writes with this quote from an article at Ars Technica: "Music labels and radio broadcasters can't agree on much, including whether radio should be forced to turn over hundreds of millions of dollars a year to pay for the music it plays. But the two sides can agree on this: Congress should mandate that FM radio receivers be built into cell phones, PDAs, and other portable electronics. The Consumer Electronics Association, whose members build the devices that would be affected by such a directive, is incandescent with rage. 'The backroom scheme of the [National Association of Broadcasters] and RIAA to have Congress mandate broadcast radios in portable devices, including mobile phones, is the height of absurdity,' thundered CEA president Gary Shapiro. Such a move is 'not in our national interest.' 'Rather than adapt to the digital marketplace, NAB and RIAA act like buggy-whip industries that refuse to innovate and seek to impose penalties on those that do.' But the music and radio industries say it's a consumer-focused proposition, one that would provide 'more music choices.'" [Slashdot] 4:46:56 PM     Mandatory FM Radios in Phones? No Way, Says CEA. The Consumer Electronics Association is incandescent with rage about a proposal that would mandate that FM radio receivers be built into cellphones, PDAs and other portable electronics. [Wired Top Stories] 4:25:17 PM     Old people...... Aging Rocker John Mellencamp Says the Internet Has "Destroyed the Music Business" [Block Quote]. Not only has it destroyed the music business, but "it's going to destroy the movie business," too. Obviously Mellencamp has a new album he's pimping out (and headlines he's trying to grab), but the atomic bomb? Really, Mellencamp? [Reuters] More » [Gizmodo] 4:09:03 PM

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Wood Is Good for Headphones. The Rain headphones from Thinksound are made of wood, which gives the sound a balanced, natural resonance. [NYT > Technology] 10:28:32 AM     Mapping Your Room Through Sight and Sound [Art]. A digital media artist by the name of Henderson wants to help you reconsider your environment. To this end, he's created Radius Music, an art project that scans its surroundings and uses what it finds to create an audiovisual map. More » [Gizmodo] 10:16:03 AM

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Using Music To Reach The Memories of Alzheimer's Patients [Concept]. Transcendental Tunes combines RFID technology (in the form of a golden, translucent gem) and a retro-looking wooden audio device to play digital music that releases the memories held captive by the mind in Alzheimer's patients. More » [Gizmodo] 11:24:14 AM

Friday, August 13, 2010

MySpace Music unveils `Romeo' video app (AP). AP - MySpace is further defining itself as a place to find music rather than a catchall social networking site as it launched on Thursday a music video player that plays random videos to match users' mood. [Yahoo! News: Technology News] 2:03:35 PM

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