Vastfm provides an interesting free of charge service that allows users to listen music online; Lots of music to be precise. The website uses mashups to provide their content as their servers are only hosting a few lines of code that power the site. What Vastfm is doing is to pull the selected artist’s discography [...]

Categories: Cool, Music and Video, The Web

It can be hard at times to follow musicians if you are a fan of them: Where are they right now, when is their next live concert, when does their next CD come out, will they come to my town? Most people get their music business news from music magazines, band websites and music portals [...]

Categories: Entertainment, Music Industry, Online Services

To put it short: SoundCloud is a social network for musicians and professionals in the music business. At least that’s the market the website is aiming for, other users (like me) can also join if they are lucky enough to get an invitation. No other website that I know of gives the user that much [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

Soundamus (via Feed my App) is a web service that is using Last.fm userdata to generate an RSS feed of upcoming and new releases of artists that the user listens to. All that’s needed to create the feed is the username of a Last.fm user, it does not have to be your own because no [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Online Services

Giggle released a beta version of their music and event recommendation software that currently works only with Apple’s iTunes software and the event recommendations seem to be exclusively for locations in Great Britain. A registration is required before you can start Giggle for the first time. Giggle is picking up songs that are playing in [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Software

Server operators who happen to have songs on their servers that are distributed illegally will have to pay the fine of 20000 Euro ($28000) per song: at least in Germany according to the district court in Hamburg. Private downloaders get it much cheaper though. They only have to pay 6000 Euro for the first song, 3000 for the second, 1500 for the third and 600 for all remaining ones. A cheap bargain don’t you think ?

Categories: Music Industry, P2p

Music recommendation services like Audiobaba exist for a while now. Some like Pandora search and stream music using Internet radio, others like Musicovery use a interactive website to play music of a certain period in time. Both are great services and I’m still using them from time to time to find new songs and artists that I never heard of before. I used to get my recommendations from terrestrial radio before but since they began to only play the same top 100 songs over and over again I had to shift my attention to a new medium that was better suited to discover new music.

Categories: Music and Video, Online Services

Ding Ding Ding, welcome the the next round in this amazing fight. In the right corner we have the underdog, a Russian mp3 website that offers what customers apparently want: MP3 files without DRM, variable bitrate at low costs. Did I mention that this is a perfectly legal company under Russian law ? In the opposite corner the RIAA, a institution living in the past, trying to hold of progress by sueing its customers and denying them what they really want.

Categories: Music Industry