Tuesday’s Music Briefing: EMI, Dell’s Zing, Songbird, eMusic & More

HYPEBOT FEATURES:

• KCRW’s influential Nick Harcourt resigns
• Orchard Has Strong Q3. Cuts Loss to $59K.
• Circuit City Files For Bankruptcy
• RoyaltyShare Expands European Team And Services
• Warner Music Group Goes All 360
• The Data Dilemma: When Enough Is Enough

MORE NEWS –

• Details of the EMI restructuring emerge. (Variety)
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  Dell may be dropping plans for a portable music and video player indefinitely and concentrating on delivering a media player that organizes downloaded music and movies via its purchase last year of Zing. (ars) Does the world really need another media player? For example here is….
• A very positive "hands on" with the new open source Songbird 1.0 music player application. (ars) I may switch. What do you guys think?
• In support of the 5 cents download and $5 CD. (Inside Music Media)
• Pizza Hut gives away 75 free tracks with a purchase via eMusic. (press release)
• A judge has ordered the new head of the Apple iPod/iPhone team to stop work because of a non-compete with previous employer IBM. (Reuters)