Thaddeus Cahill’s Streaming Electronic Music Service c.1895
This booklet was one of those stumbled upon finds from my days as a book hunter and I stumbled onto it at one of my favorite NYC book stores, Skyline Books (since deceased). Thaddeus Cahill was born in...
View ArticleStreaming 24/96 over the Internet. Interested?
Singapore, 10th November 2011 – MP4SLS, a Singapore-based company dedicated to reshaping the delivery of digital audio entertainment, today announced the launch of a new digital audio format that...
View ArticleOraStream Digital Long-Play (DLP) App
It’s an app, its an album, its a playlist, its music, and its free (until December 2012). If you own an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad (requires iOS 4.2 or later) run don't walk to the iTunes Store and...
View ArticleStreaming for Pieces of Percentages of Pennies
In an article for Pitchfork, musician and songwriter Damon Krukowski of Galaxie 500 and Damon & Naomi talks about the business model behind streaming services including Pandora and Spotify. And its...
View ArticleThe NY Times Press Play
The NY Times recently got into the streaming music game offering up a new album each week in its entirety for free. These streaming releases are exclusive, or so they say, so Press Play is worth...
View ArticleThe NPR Music App
If you like NPR's First Listen and other music-related programming, you'll love the app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Reader Deckeda recently mentioned the NPR Music App in one of his comments and...
View ArticleNPR's First Listen
I know we've talked about NPR's First Listen before but the current selection strikes me as being particularly fertile.
View ArticleThe Trouble With Streaming
credit: Spotify"When people say that Spotify doesn’t pay anything, I can tell you it’s not true." Billy Bragg In an article on the Independent (see article), three artists are interviewed who actually...
View ArticleDeutsche Grammophon Discovery App
DG just launched their new Discovery App on the Apple App Store. Initially consisting of 450 albums "in high quality audio streams" (no specific bit rate provided), the label says they hope to add up...
View ArticleQobuz Enters the Equivalent of Chapter 11 Protection
As reported in LesEchos.fr, France-based Qobuz has entered procédure de sauvegarde which is roughly the equivalent of Chapter 11 protection. Qobuz President Yves Riesel explains that they were...
View ArticleTIDAL Lossless CD-Quality Streaming Coming to the US and UK
WiMP CEO Andy Chen From the Press release: Oslo, Norway – 3rd September, 2014– WiMP HiFi, the award-‐winning Scandinavian music streaming service, today announced it will introduce TIDAL to the UK and...
View ArticleSiriusXM Ruling Could Have Far-Reaching Effects on Streaming Services
As we learned in the pending Pandora case, US Federal Copyright Law does not protect music recorded before Feb. 15, 1972, instead it's handled on a state by state basis. Flo & Eddie filed their...
View ArticleStreaming Services: How Much Is Too Little?
With Spotify's recently announced family plan that effectively makes family members accounts come in at $5/month, and Apple's rumored $5/month target for its Beats music streaming service, I wonder how...
View ArticleTidal Lossless Streaming Service Launches Today!
From the press release: Oslo, Norway – October 28, 2014 – TIDAL, the first high fidelity lossless music streaming service with HD music videos and curated editorial, today announced the launch and...
View ArticleTidal Lossless Streaming...Now
Two new releases I've been very curious about are Ruins from Grouper and Venice (10th Anniversary Edition) from Fennesz and I just listened to both of them in CD-quality on Tidal. Ruins is also...
View ArticleTidal and Bluesound Unite
From the press release: Bluesound announced today TIDAL is now available on all Bluesound Players, giving users access to TIDAL's extensive music library in lossless 16-bit/44.1 kHz FLAC and ALAC...
View ArticleNick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live
Streaming on PBS' Austin City Limits until 11/29/2014 is the full Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds concert which originally aired on 11/01/2014. Featuring hits old and new, from "From Her to Eternity" to...
View ArticleTaylor Swift Pulls Her Music From Spotify
Sarah Barlow While there's no press release or public statement to support this move, Taylor Swift's record label, Big Machine Music, has removed all of her music from the streaming service Spotify...
View ArticleSpotify Overtakes iTunes in Europe
image credit: Kobalt A picture's worth a lot of words...From the press release: Kobalt, the leading global music publishing and music services company for artists, songwriters, labels and publishers,...
View ArticleStreaming Services Get a Swift Kick
photo credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson Here's Taylor Swift from an interview in Yahoo Music! on streaming: "But all I can say is that music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry...
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